Have you tried the idea of looking for the references?

Take a peek at the cloak and the engine entries - you will see the effects that they use. Then search the files for those names instead.

They didn't just stick the effects in the effects.ini for the game engine to decide to use... each entry in the files (weapon_equip and engine_equip) actually have lines stating which effects they use.

The whole game works on the same principles, everything is referenced to something

OK, I found the cloak, but I can't find the cruise. There's cruise sounds, but not effects.

Cruise effects are called by the game engine, which calls a sub-effect from the ALE. Cruise effects are generated by the Trail, not by the Flame.

that helps a little, but not much. I can't say what I'm trying to do as this thread would be closed. All I can say is that I'm trying to change the effect of crusing to be more "jump drive" like.

If you're trying to have the Cloak effect called when Cruise is enabled... well, I'm not sure that's going to work. ALEs have sub-effects that can be called by the game engine depending on the state that the game engine's in. IOW, I doubt very much that the Cloak ALE can be called as a normal part of activating Cruise. Sorry, it's just how things work.

that's what I thaught, damn it...thanks anywise