so many y’s and z’s and x’s and wow thats just a lot to get confused with lol…

StarTrader wrote:
Well Said!!

This is an old and inflammatory argument, I’ve said this before in different words and I’ll just repeat myself…

I cannot see how any “copyright” by any modder of a mod can stand up in a court of law when it has itself already violated a real and registered Copyright of the original Freelancer game created (ok purchased together with all rights) by such a mighty force as Microsoft?

It cannot!

Many modders have threatened legal action against anyone who uses their mod work. But they cannot take any of their mod cases to a court of law, for the simple reason that they are already pirates themselves.

Silly billies. A thief threatens legal action to another thief who might steal from him something he has himself stolen? Ha ha.

Have you also considered this…

If the engine code includes and allows it, how can any use of the same command and parameter used in a mod to achieve the same effect, be considered piracy of someone else’s work? It’s not like building a progam using a programming language where you need to design the entire work line by line, and so many alternatives are available and so the program can be different but achieve the same effect. In FL it cannot, the available commands and acceptable parameters are very limited and so it must inherently be identical, and the only legal copyright owners are those who built the engine and incorporated the commands used in the .ini files.

We should merely respect the work of others.

So CC and others, including myself - no matter how much it hurts, we who designed (or rather discovered) anything unique in the way of mod coding & ini changes in FL are pirates in the first instance. So get real. Unless you created new commands, or added new functionality, you did not invent anything, you used existing functionality already built into FL. The only possible exceptions are ships and other models which are really unique design. But if the ship is a model of one used in a TV show or movie, how on earth can that be copyrighted since the original ship design is not theirs?

And even if unique models, since even those also modify a copyrighted work, by being incorporated into FL, those too are not legally supportable.

In reality, others of us refrain from using other modders’ work just out of respect and decency, but none of you have any right to forbid by law.

And since you have released a mod, how can you insist on it not being used by the community for which it was made? That’s churlish! If that’s the way you feel, don’t release it at all, instead of releasing it just for praise and self-inflation!

Why can’t you lot understand this and just shut up, and be kind to fellow modders? On both sides. Creators should release their work for all to use, or not release a mod at all. Withholding your permission is ridiculous. At the same time, Wannabees should not use others’ work without permission, out of respect. You are just breaking up the small community that is left, for self-promotion and self-esteem or mere bloody-mindedness only.

Reconsider, all of you. Take leads from those pillars among us who have donated so much and so freely, too many to name and give credit to.

Wow well said!

some ppl might use a “torrented” version but I wont link you to it…

Also btw if ur using windows movie maker to encode those videos, you might wanna make them higher quality before uploading them cuz youtube is weird with that sutff sometimes

FriendlyFire wrote:
I beg to differ. You can say a lot of things about Discovery (great server-side additions, great team, large scale), but the graphics are on par with most mods out there. If you haven’t checked out Freeworlds 2.0, 88 flak, Itano Circus or SWWT, you might want to as they have equal or better visual flair

Dont Forget Plasamfire =P

try completely uninstalling FL, and installing again, also try installing a server mod or something.

might try adding to the lifetime of the explosion, not sure what it will do but its worth a try. Also you could just have it fire multiple ones at intervals maybe come kind of bot AI to do it right. and as faar as caps, the engines are bugged with cds but there is a way to fix them, I forgot how though.

thats odd, I got this to work with nomad CDs with no problem, can I see the code you are using?

well FL doesnt like the new ATi Cards right now, but it runs awesome on the new Nvidia Cards. I’m using an Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M + Cuda 1GB card right now, I know plently ppl that use a 9800 card, it works awesomee for them, specially if u use nvidia control panel to add Anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering to the game.

the big difference with 1440X900 is thats a 14:9 ratio kinda, 1920X1080 is a 16:9 ratio, so iits gotta have different values, its possible to make it work.

Try it as if u were adding a new ship and package, if it doesn’t work then u know. As for as I know it inst possible, but if there is hardpoints there, maybe the ini will still recognize it and do it.

…. I edited the dacom.ini, also I would like to get widescreen to work on HC, but with FLCD Idk how

I tried the jflp, but with 88flak’s mod it wouldnt work

Hey guys I have started trying out new FL mods, but none of them have widescreen support, and I was wondering if anyone knows how to get widescreen working like in JFLP http://the-starport.net/freelancer/news/article.php?storyid=142&keywords=jflp

Because I cant exactly run this update in the mods or figure out how to rip the widescreen from it, I’ve tried.

Im not sure what causes it, might have something to do with the engines i think, but why try to remove such a fun bug lol. Me and friends on our old server used to have SO much fun trying to see who could be flung the fastest!

savegame corruption would make sense…. it happens, also an old CPU would cause it.

Yeah I ran a server for a year on a dynamic IP also, never turning off the modem works, and the GLS through fllistserver as long as its setup right in the server freelancer.ini to include it, it works just fine with IP changes. Also there is the GLS workaround which you might wind up using also, however you have to update it manually on its site(takes about an hour max) . flserver.de

Yeah don’t ever shut the modem down and you should be ok,

thats one weird resolution O.o

Awesome stuff I like it!!!

What video card?

Try using Older drivers too, because the recent one from Nvidia has been buggy crashing for some.

try updating your graphics drivers to an OLDER version like older than September of last year, there is a bug with the Nvidia 200x drivers they made recently causing a lot of problems.