I am in the process of replaying the game; I found a few tricks that work in helping me stay alive--the old 'fly to the next waypoint without hitting autopilot' trick; it works wonders if you have a ship that has 'autoslide(the arrow; the excalibur)'; however I need to know if the game has a time compression feature, cuz it sometimes takes a real long time to head off the enemy. The FS2 command list says "alt" & "," or "." works but that seems to be a 'no go' for me. Any suggestions or other ideas?
You can't change the time compression in any of campaign missions. The devs disabled it. If you feel adventurous, you can extract the mission files, find the event that resets time compression, remove it then plug the missions in "Wing Commander Saga\data\missions".