[Aesaar]

EMP screwing with messages, while adding a bit to immersion, makes it pretty much unusable by non-voiced campaigns because of the risk of missing mission-critical dialogue.  I get that anything modifying retail behavior should be off by default, so would it be possible to make a mission flag that would prevent EMP from affecting messages?

[Lorric]

EMP interferes with voices too, unless I'm imagining it, I'm sure the voices cut in and out when under EMP.

Or am I just thinking of scripted EMP in the original campaign?

I suppose it doesn't really matter either way since you just want that effect done away with.

[General Battuta]

Mission or mod.tbl flag would be fantastic and enable a lot of stuff.

[Trivial Psychic]

The solution to this problem depends on whether or not the messages are still scrambled when you check the message log under the F4 menu.

[headdie]

how would a message priority setting in the FRED message sexp stack from a coding point of view?

[Mars]

The messages are still scrambled in the log yes.