Best TA/Spring mod for OTA players/noobs?

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Now with the new version killing BOTA and my buds wanting another game, I'm thinking of either bugging them into us all jumping into XTA, or we regress to Classic TA (which seems to work, I haven't seen any crash-bugs yet and I could disable the craters myself).

Wow, that's quite the guide you posted - very helpful, but it already seems out of date - I just tried XTA and didn't see any L1 zippers/freakers.