Foxtrot Lima 101 Continued
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I play single-player because I have limited internet access time. I have gotten 3 other folks reinterested in the game, but they are SP types as well. I have installed, uninstalled and
reinstalled Freelancer so many times that I have it down to just shy of 15 minutes for the whole 9 yards. (I know it’s all about me, me, me…)That includes:
- Freelancer itself
- MS patch
- Freelancer QuickFix Patch 1.0c
- Jason’s Freelancer Patch v 1.0
- and verifying that my vanilla save games still work (at this point they do).
From this point on only HD Textures v 1.2 installs smoothly and doesn’t interrupt an existing SP game. But it doesn’t play with other mods at all. Not really a problem since most of the bigger mods have their own eye candy. And not playing well with other mods is fairly typical of all the mods I’ve tried so far. If it’s important to the conversation, I use FLMM 1.31 to install my mods. I have not had a single crash in vanilla.
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Do I need to install both community patches or does JFLP cover it all?
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What is the difference between SP and OSP? (besides an ‘O’)
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Does OSP allow me to ignore Juni’s nagging and play like I want to from the gitty-up?
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Or is OSP a way to continue to play after the story line is completed?
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Or is it a combination of the last 2 depending on the mod developer?
Herds of thank yous for your technical assistance and for keeping the game going. I wish there was more story line compatible SP mods, but since there’s not can I set up my own server and play multi-player mods on it? Just me and my many alternate personalities?
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i will help you out in some ways ok most mods out there haave all the patches installed already most all of them now thats big mods. most of the mods use the sdks 1.3 or 1.5 some use a bunch of differsnt sdks or patches. so you dont have to install anything they change what needs to be changed and just leave the rest either way you dont need to install anything but the mod. j flip i know does not work with the order mod i tried it. but you dont need anythinf with that mod anyway. osp or open single player is like being on a server with out the internet you dont follow the story line. its open do what you want play your own way. sp means is strickly story line so if the mod is sp compatible then you can play it with the story intact. osp means the mod is open no story involved.
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also on a added note you should not play story line when a mos is involved unless it is ok or the developer oked its use that way. i tried playing the story line with solaris systems and could not kill anything so just read the read mes and other things that come with the mods.
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Thanks Sabatino - if I read you correctly the best, maybe the only way, to play one of the big mods is:
- do a fresh install of Freelancer;
- do not install any patches because they are already included in the mod;
- and for OSP stay away from the story line if it’s even still there.
I think I’ll finish up the original story line then start trying the mods.
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JFLP is a superset of QuickFix, so there’s no need for that. The new version of JFLP will probably include the official patch, too. Another alternative to Open SP is SP from MP, which creates a new game based on the new multiplayer character. The Order Mod does work with JFLP, after you run it through JFLPMOD (see JFLP\mods.txt).
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if a freelancer mod supports osp i will be installedalready and you wont be able to play the story line. try this mod when you are done with the story line. its the closet i have come to actually playing on a server in osp all is included the osp is a mod patch and is included http://www.moddb.com/mods/phoenix-mod/downloads/phoenix-105
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Bottleneck wrote:
but since there’s not can I set up my own server and play multi-player mods on it? Just me and my many alternate personalities?You can always set up your own server (even offline) by using the flserver.exe in your freelancer\exe folder. Works with every mod that includes the server files.
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Thanks again folks - once again into the breech. I did a fresh Freelancer install; then installed JFLP; then installed Phoenix 1.05 with OSP. I’ve been playing happily ever since. A camper of much more happiness indeed.
I am having a few graphics issues though and they are mod related - I never had the problem in vanilla. But they are intermitent so I can live with them. The most irksome is the usually small graphic that appears when some one is hailing you - like ground control or the police looking for contraband. Instead of a 1"x1" image popping up - the image fills my screen. No other graphics are effected.
It hasn’t impacted my playing, but it is irritating. Newest drivers installed already, but I haven’t unchecked 3d sound. I don’t see how that could effect video, but I’ll give it a try.
That’s good to hear on the local server - I appreciate the info for sure.
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Weird it turns out that something (the mod maybe?) keeps changing my screen resolution from 1024x768 to 1280x1024 which is my Windows resolution.
Not sure why that would be, but hey, I got it fixed for now.
Thanks again!
