New Guy

Hello and welcome to TSP. Yes, the Game CD is the most important part. Once you install it and choose Multi-player, be sure to write down the ID it gives you for future references. After that, you can put the CD up and start doing all the above.

Yep, that’s right you need a CD. Freelancer CDs can be bought over eBay, Amazon, basically almost any online sale site. There’s a bunch of 'em.

Although, you can also use a cough pirate link.

also any demo version would contain a no-cd application file and moreover there is a legal no-cd for the game so do not fear of getting in trouble with the law, it’s too late for anyone to run after you and look up the assembly for whether your exe is the legal no-cd or not. btw your account code you can always read out of the html app in your fl\exe directory although it is sensible to write it down e.g. for the case you will play from another computer or redo your system completely or get a new machine with a new system.

Hm, you can get FL cd for less than 10 bucks @ amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Freelancer-Jewel-Case-Pc/dp/B000NJFMR4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1273755570&sr=8-1

Since you don’t seem to own this CD atm, how did you got to know about freelancer, btw?

er… friends? google? demo version? moddb? freelancer is still alive, m8!

Exactly, I have a half dozen friends that have never heard of FL before I told them about it… and they didn’t even have to buy it!

Hey mate, when you get your hands on the game, give me a holler, I can show you the ropes if you want.

i am btw introducing FL to gamers personally winning clients for myself as well as sometimes for popular servers. for the time it is created it has quite a good gfx, even today vanilla does not look too badly, updates like bloom or w0dk4’s dx9 conversion not mentioned. the game is worthy of being played and most of the players just never heard of it, that’s it. once they play it, they like it, i never yet was disappointed.

Good job, m8. Keep spreading the word and help it grow to be the best game ever, no matter the rest of them.

Awesome

HK: is FL not the best game ever?
well, many gamers, especially ego-shooter players are very concentrated on graphics but fortunately most of the gamers out there play games with a good engine and good ideas, even if those are on two dimensions only. Freelancer is a great game and advertisement is the only thing it needs. advertisement of mods btw is unnecessary and even agains the aim. once people get bored with the game, they search for hacks and for mods themselves. the more players learn to know vanilla, the more mods they play afterwards. also it is difficult to talk about mods if you do not know what they changed actually. it is important to keep the original name of Freelancer alive. mods are to extend the game and to keep the players ingame once they know it good enough. i am happy that i can tell you this as maybe our moddings and experiences of server management is the very most essential point for pursuit of our aims of keeping FL modern.
btw: some of my clients are already interested in the technique of modding. i am teaching them as much as i can, i give them links, too. all modders were gamers one day, and every new modder is an addition of discovery speed. the more we are, the faster we figure out modding secrets.