youre welcome, you are also banned for hotlink insertion. Please dont do this.

I spoke to my daughters B/F he’s quite a wizz with all things pc I showed him your link and he pretty much had freelancer up and running on his pc within minutes and that’s win 10 so thank you for your advice and the link,he’s going to ask a friend who might have a spare laptop that I can buy and he said he could set it up for me if I needed him too,the site he used for the d/l was called myabandonware.com so just need the laptop and I’m heading back into freelancer for the next few years 😄 😄

Dont go into the light!!!

FriendlyFire wrote:
Doesn’t change the fact that thrusters may be not powerful enough to win. You may have to alter cruise for the time of the race or get really good at manoeuvring with high cruise speed.

Haha! What’s this, FriendlyFire? More hazing? 🙂

OK… I know that you may not know me, but I don’t give out tips to newbies unless I have been there and done that myself. 🙂

The Hovis race is more about understanding NPC behavior than it is about racing. Hovis flies a highly maneuverable Dagger, and he has faster reflexes than any human. I am not sure that it is possible to “beat” Hovis. As Gibbon said, Hovis “loses” by missing gates rather than the player actually “winning”.

Try it at 450 (Crossfire) if you don’t believe me. The race is a joke at that speed. Hovis missed so many gates that I won in a Rhino by using thrust-and-slide.

In vanilla, of course, you will want to cruise. The race course was built with 300 kps in mind. I ran the course at 350 in Discovery (in a Dagger). Much above that, and thrust-and-slide works better than cruise.

Anyway, Mark39 asked how to beat Hovis at higher cruise speed. Your solution of reducing the cruise speed works, but my solution of simply not cruising works as well… and my solution does not require messing with the mod’s balance.