Freelancer Discussion

I agree with a lot of what WHY say’s, love his work too, but at the same time, FF makes the best possible point really. Take a look at this place, if it wasn’t for them providing a place where people could actually learn a thing or two about modding freelancer, then how the hell would anyone be able to do it in the first place.

You have to give thanks to the fact that they tell you how to do it, to then gut their mods of materials and use their guides to insert them into your own mod is just pissing in their face. Add to that the fact that someone could come onto their site and #$%% all over them aswell by advertising the fact that they have ripped the materials from their mod and apparently done a better job with them…. Well, in most places that kind of person would no longer have a voice in that place.

Therefore, I have to agree with FF, it’s all about attitude.

As I’ve said before, I really bloody wish they would all get themselves and their materials together and make one almighty starport mod, it might be a clash of personalities and styles but their would be no arguments about who owns what and who has permission to use what, they own it all already. Screw twenty great mods, have one mutha of all to rule all and one community to bring it all together for one last stand. I know, it will never happen… :-x

rsabatino wrote:
http://archive.irtc.org/stills/2003-12-31.html check this out it won second place in the internet rat tracing competition

Hey Richard, thanks for that link and the name of the Artist. I was trying to think of his name but I had Greg Martin in my mind when I posted.

Thanks again.

Hey all I have moved all my infomations and starting anew at http://freelancercommunity.net/viewtopic.php?t=621

Go over there for updates please, as i might not be coming here to watchthis thred. and much thanks to everyone.

I have decided to start with a fresh install with the sdk stuff and insert all my ships into the game and work at it from there.

Lonestar out . . .

heh. m8, there are even mods with entirely new universes. if you want to have a partially known, try discovery, for instance. the amount of new places is that huge, that you probably never will explore even a half of them before you have the kick-ass ship youre after.

Ello.

Glad it seems you got your problem sorted, but you didn’t reply to tell if our way helped?

Why didn’t Why485 join his fanclub?? :-?

www.flnu.net 😉
We`ve lots of things which are totaly unique in the FL community.
Take a look at the grahics and at the new animations, i guess they are some of the best actually avaible.
Or the 3d systems with vertical tradelanes.
We also have absolutly unique power and shield booster to personalize your ship.

Oh and there is a fantastic surprise for stargate fans.

Cya there 🙂

NOTE: Its actually a public beta and from what i was just told we will need to reset the chars because of a bug in our charfile converter.

im really impressed of how clean you work. unbelievable that your sources of information are the same as ours, too… good job, m8, even if i am a bit too late with that.

I find winrar zips and unzips anything and doesn’t screw up, least the files i use don’t seem to, but then i’m perfect lol

@ST

Funny you mention the size of toast. When i moved up here to Sweden from the UK a few years ago, i expected to miss a few things, decent tea for one, and toast oddly was the other.

Now any idiot can make toast and turn it brown, but it’s nice to dump two slices in the toaster and get the robotic servant to do it for you. Now my bread falls into the toaster with no protruding parts which led me to think based on your observations, is the bread the right size? It is swedish bread after all, so can’t be trusted to be the right size now can it? Further investigation has led me to this unhappy summary.

Toaster = made in china
Bread = swedish, wrong size so actually fits toaster

Conclusion = It’s now a full on conspiracy by the chinese to make toasters smaller, also they have infiltrated sweden, (bought Volvo) and got them to make the bread smaller thereby selling more toasters so people are happier. I’m not :-x

Whohoo!

@rasauul add poll to topic if you wish: fraps, xfire, camstudio :))

I have a mod in the works that I might be looking for a place to host it. But the only problem I have is that site can not have advertisement space. I’m working on a Eve-online mod by myself at the moment and I’m looking for a place that can help me with hosting.

FriendlyFire wrote:
Doesn’t change the fact that thrusters may be not powerful enough to win. You may have to alter cruise for the time of the race or get really good at manoeuvring with high cruise speed.

Haha! What’s this, FriendlyFire? More hazing? 🙂

OK… I know that you may not know me, but I don’t give out tips to newbies unless I have been there and done that myself. 🙂

The Hovis race is more about understanding NPC behavior than it is about racing. Hovis flies a highly maneuverable Dagger, and he has faster reflexes than any human. I am not sure that it is possible to “beat” Hovis. As Gibbon said, Hovis “loses” by missing gates rather than the player actually “winning”.

Try it at 450 (Crossfire) if you don’t believe me. The race is a joke at that speed. Hovis missed so many gates that I won in a Rhino by using thrust-and-slide.

In vanilla, of course, you will want to cruise. The race course was built with 300 kps in mind. I ran the course at 350 in Discovery (in a Dagger). Much above that, and thrust-and-slide works better than cruise.

Anyway, Mark39 asked how to beat Hovis at higher cruise speed. Your solution of reducing the cruise speed works, but my solution of simply not cruising works as well… and my solution does not require messing with the mod’s balance.

Well the game is 7 years old now, can’t be many games of that age that are still played in large numbers. I’ve suspected for a while that there might be as many mod makers as players. I guess that if anyone out there did buy a copy of the game now that they would be unaware of the mod community and would find multiplayer is broken.

FlHack does the no HUD hack, go here for a link to his site

Ozed.

Dont go into the light!!!

I am using 1.8.5 and no problem with the .cmp exporter v03 and .mat exporter v1.

The .sur exporter is always problematic with any version of MilkShape, but I mainly export sur parts and splice them and this is working fine.

@w0d: Sometimes you don’t want players who don’t work on things to get the best stuff. Exploration is fun, but it’s a lot more compelling if it gives you an edge, if there’s a reason for you to go around and explore stuff. If anyone with a tool and five minutes can find them (and with wrecks, deny you the ability to find them), it kinda makes it all moot and frustrating.