mystery zip file

Hello again,

I have noticed a mystery ZIP file in the EOC game files. It seems to cantain all sorts of ship parameters, etc, but was never unzipped to my knowledge. Is this something that gets unzipped by the game farther down the road?

FBOF

it's the resource.zip - used as is by the game. Only a part of the resource folder is unzipped.
As far as I know, the game reads the information in the unzipped resource folder first, but if it doesn't find the information in there it uses the resource.zip.
If you want to change some .ini-files copy your resource.zip and unzip it. Change (mod) the .ini's and put them in your original resource folder in maindirectory (you'll have to create the "foldertree"). If they work ingame - great, if not - just delete them and the original zipped ones are used again.