I did some searching and finally found something that might help after all...
There is a program called XED, found on this site
http://xcom.strategyplanet.gamespy.com/x3f2.shtml
A very useful utility indeed, you can even tranfer your old characters, equipment ect... to a new game, which can be useful. It also has a handy diplomacy editor (which I havent quite figured out 100% yet but have used it to stop the organisations that who liked the aliens to now be bribe-able... henceforth my game is back on track, for some reason Marsec still wont let me bribe them even after altering them with the editor :blink:
oh well never mind, if I ever do need anything I'll just raid em

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P.S - to get the editor to work you have to extract XED to your savegame directory and run with dosbox - you also have to mount c c:\xcoma ... as it wont work with mount c c:\xcoma\savegame ...
But I'm sure you guys already knew that
