[Trivial Psychic]

I'm still hoping for a corrected version of Their Finest Hour to wind up in the MediaVPs.  Hell, most of the relevant events are already in the retail mission.

I could accept a "corrected" version perhaps making it into the MVPs as a single mission.

[Goober5000]

I wouldn't mind getting a version in the MVPs that had just the beam-free-all sexp fixed.

[Mongoose]

Beam-free the friendly ships, and do something so that the Colossus doesn't sit there disabled for no reason whatsoever, and we might have a semi-decent mission.

[Goober5000]

Fixing the Colossus would be much more ambitious, and would probably require re-FREDding a large part of the mission.  If we're putting this in the mediavps, I'd rather we just fixed the beam-free sexp.

[Zacam]

Well, we can start with one and then work on the other.

I like being ambitious.

[Mongoose]

I think we've all surmised that just disabled the Colossus because they couldn't get the waypoints that are in the mission to work how they wanted, but that doesn't mean we can't just throw in a few new waypoints and get it to where it needs to be.  So long as it and the Shivan ships are in the general areas they were before, the mission balance won't be affected in the least, since the player isn't involved in those confrontations in any way.  Hell, even having the Colossus limp around at 5 m/s would be more consistent than having it sitting there for no reason whatsoever.

[Sololop]

Would also need to probably remove the Collie BFGreen, IIRC. Or leave it....

[Mars]

I think A Flaming Sword could be corrected with the addition of a few AND or OR (Alpha is destroyed) SEXPs.

With Their Finest Hour, the Colossus could be left motionless but un-disabled and the touching Heroic Sacrifice will make much more sense.

If a balance between keeping things the same and making things better must be struck, do the bare minimum.