System wide poly count

Great feedback guys, thx alot !
I asked these questions not because I wanna make a mod, that would be just too much work, I asked cause I’m looking into creating some 3D environments that would seem like “out of this world” for Freelancer hehe. I wanna help the community expand Freelancer so as to gain some new players and I got so many ideas running around in my head that I do not know with what should I start and if I’ll even have time to do exactly what I want. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
Thanks again, I appreciate your to-the-point answers.
You can close the topic now if you wish.

I havent played Freelancer for a while now. I downloaded a few mods couple of weeks ago but I did not installed them, nor Freelancer but as I said, I wanna help the ppl that make them.
Here’s my vision of a possible Freelancer mod, if i were to work on one:

• get rid of absolutely all the 3D models from vanilla
• create everything from scratch
• original models, no rips from games or movies
• planets orbited by >detailed moons< …. what I wanna say with " detailed" -> you can fly on their surface and find moon bases, crashed ships, pirate hideouts, canyons, dome cities and stuff
• beautiful clouds like the ones you see in movies and let you with a “wow” expression on your face
• various objects in space: mining drones, satellites, abandoned structures, derelict ships, etc
• delete all vanilla systems and build a single and vast solar system with a dozen (huge)planets (as in planet-sized) orbited by many small moons. The distances between the planets should be huge and take the player a long time to get from planet #1 to planet #3, not to mention #12. But these great distances leave room for lots of possibilities. We could have dozens of gas clouds, asteroid belts, radiation belts and all sorts of things like that. No more trade lanes ! Least not in the way they’re used in vanilla, they could be used for transporting resources from an asteroid mining facility in deep space to a moon or planet for example.
• create limited but detailed environments looking like a planet’s surface for a memorable flying experience.

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I would want everything to be 100% original and never before seen … yeah I know what you’re saying: “look another retard fanboyish idea on the horizon” … well I dont really care I’m a big scifi fan and I’ve got the right to dream and also the possibility on making at least a part of my dream a reality. What I told you above, all those ideas, probably seem highly unlikely to ever come true but never say never. If there’s one thing I dont understand in this whole story is “WHY ?!” ; Why in God’s name dont we all come together and make this sorta mod happen ? I mean we’re all already here, at the Starport, but we’re all busy advertising a bunch of mods on which only a handful of ppl are working. Can you imagine the quality of a mod if we all started to work together side by side. I’d freakin even be willing to download a few hundred tutorials on texturing and learn to do a proper texture for the first time. I’d actually be willing to do more than that and I’m sure all of us would be willing aswell. This mod could be eyecandy …… could look so better that it would outshine all scifi combat games out there. Sounds crazy but if you think of it, it aint crazy not even in the slightest. There’s so many ppl here in this community, 3D artists, coders, testers and everything in between … there’s hundreds of us … I can only imagine how our finished mod would look, it probably wont even be “Freelancer” anymore, we could call it “The Starport” lol.
Long post I know, but least I stated what I had on my mind. Now I’ll go back at building that ship in my own pace … and maybe after that I’ll search for some texturing tutorials, oh well …