New Freelancer fan project

The docking ring, it could be a station in geosynchronus orbit with the the planet.
An it could have mooring links and the obvious docking ring all in one.

Mixing trading station with the gravitational elevator (docking ring) and the moors for the capital ships.

This sounds very well! A last question: how much will the original game be modified? (story, characters, the sirius sector, star systems, etc…)

For now we decided to create copy of original Freelancers Sirius Sector without any storyline changes. Game starts after Nomad War or maybe 5-10 years later. Planets dont have docking ring at all. Just fly in its atmosphere.
On planets/bases clans will be able to buy a their own hangars, clanhalls and more)

at least the atmosphere entrance should be limited in speed. if you fly too fast you should burn out in it, but if you take care you can enter the atmosphere smoothly. also, a gravitation effect could be nice as counterforce to this action

Gisteron wrote:
at least the atmosphere entrance should be limited in speed. if you fly too fast you should burn out in it, but if you take care you can enter the atmosphere smoothly. also, a gravitation effect could be nice as counterforce to this action

Yea, like in Frontier, when you are approaching the planet in too sharp angle you burn and die…make planet landings moar challenging…

This seem to be a promising project!

Regarding docking rings: If you don’t include them into the game, you could still add them as an option or so sinse it’s probably a lot simpler - there’s a reason DA added them.

Is this all going to be in Russian?

BUDU_KRATOK wrote:
About docking: during the docking you can control your ship. In a certain area you will be asked whether you want to get on base/planet or not.

I pondered on the fact that there could be more cities on a planet.
sure if possible things like this, i think there would be cool

BUDU_KRATOK wrote:
In our project players can create character as in any MMORPG: select eyes, hair color etc. On planet or base player can move like any third-person shooter. And when you capture a battleship, you just run on the battleship and shoot at the enemy:)

But now we have problems with player models - .dfm format If someone convert or create some models and animations - it would be great

As someone who always sees people request these type of features for any space game, I am very wary about whether or not this is a good idea.

In pretty much every space game ever made, having an avatar to walk around on the ground requires a colossal expenditure of effort on the part of the developers with very little gain. Doing anything on foot while at the same time having the regular game in space is essentially creating two separate games. They are so unrelated in terms of how they are executed I just don’t see how it would be worth the effort.

The only way I can see this working, and this applies to huge AAA space sims (As if those exist anymore.) is if you have an entire team dedicated to getting the on foot stuff working correctly and in a satisfactory and polished manner. Even then, especially at this stage of development, I would rather those resources be spent getting the core game up to speed.

If you really want to do something like that I recommend it be the absolute last thing you do, and release the game before you start working on any on foot type stuff.

Why485 wrote:

BUDU_KRATOK wrote:
In our project players can create character as in any MMORPG: select eyes, hair color etc. On planet or base player can move like any third-person shooter. And when you capture a battleship, you just run on the battleship and shoot at the enemy:)

But now we have problems with player models - .dfm format If someone convert or create some models and animations - it would be great

As someone who always sees people request these type of features for any space game, I am very wary about whether or not this is a good idea.

In pretty much every space game ever made, having an avatar to walk around on the ground requires a colossal expenditure of effort on the part of the developers with very little gain. Doing anything on foot while at the same time having the regular game in space is essentially creating two separate games. They are so unrelated in terms of how they are executed I just don’t see how it would be worth the effort.

The only way I can see this working, and this applies to huge AAA space sims (As if those exist anymore.) is if you have an entire team dedicated to getting the on foot stuff working correctly and in a satisfactory and polished manner. Even then, especially at this stage of development, I would rather those resources be spent getting the core game up to speed.

If you really want to do something like that I recommend it be the absolute last thing you do, and release the game before you start working on any on foot type stuff.

Couldn’t agree more.

huge AAA space sims (As if those exist anymore.)

The only one ATM is EVE Online imo.

I actually don’t like footwork or ground combat in a space sim, it interrupts the space stuff.

It would be better in other games, e.g. if it was a ground combat game with a jump into space to another planet or similar, where space combat/trading isn’t the main theme.

Kuze wrote:

huge AAA space sims (As if those exist anymore.)

The only one ATM is EVE Online imo.

sigh don’t mention EVE, please. It’s not a space simulator if you can’t even fly the ship manually.

well, running around so you have to get to the traders, dealers and spaceports yourself might be a nice idea, but, agreed, not a combat system. unless you are about conquering a battleship and have to lead your people to eliminate or capture all of the onboard officers to get command.

Look at Star Trek Online; most people agree that the space portion is fun, but the ground sections are a chore.

I also think that this capturing a battleship on foot isn’t the best idea, as it would require lots of players and a good coordination of these, and it would end up being SW Battlefront or something like that!!

you know, there could be purchasable bots for that purpose, only active when you enter a hostile base and only if you have a ship large enough to carry them with you.

That could create lots of server load, right? Imagine five of these battleships being attacked at the same time…

look, how many npc’s you see in orbit of New London, fighting, in orbit of NY, flying around and that’s far not many. imagine 5 players on a FL server, each surrounded with an NPC environment. is that a problem to FL? why should this one have any problems with that? we’re talking of four, maybe 5 help bots running behind you.