As usual, corporate shills shamelessly ignore the needs of consumers.

If SWAT or any other #$%% idiots want to spew complete garbage, they can feel free to do so but I’m done here.

I’d watch your language if you don’t want to get your ass booted into low orbit on your way out.

I’m going to lock this now because the only thing I’m seeing is a bunch of wanking.

Welcome Back,
Good to see Flak is back. Had problem trying to login, but will work that out.
Pascal05

The NSA spying on your gaming life isn’t the problem. The NSA spying on you AT ALL is the problem. The American government’s primary job is to support and promote FREEDOM, not treat its citizens as well as citizens of the world as sheep that must be controlled, or potential criminals that need to be identified and locked up.

Remember, any ‘right’ or ‘freedom’ that is granted to you by your government is no right at all if it can be taken away. It’s just a privilege at that point. Privileges can be taken away at the whim of a bureaucrat or corrupt government official. Or even a corrupt government. Or, in a democracy, even a corrupt electorate.

Good-oh! 😉

Wow!
According to popular belief, that number that doesn’t mean anything actually has a meaning.

Lets use Detroit Munitions as an example.
know = 251760, 253608, 300, 1
knowdb = li01_10

In the first line the 251760 is the NameResources.dll info
DLL #3 - NameResources.dll - Table 3448 - ResID 55152 (This is from FLEd-ids)
“I’ll upload all of the info on Detroit Munitions into your Neural Net”

The second number in the first line, 253608 is the knowledgemap.ini [KnowledgeMapTable] referance

» Each base object has two lines for its description
Map = 253608, li01_10, 31 <–- Name of the object
Map = 253608, li01, 1 <— System of the object

What I found to be even more amazing is that information on a jum hole has three results. One for the NAME, one for the ORIGIN, and a third for the EXIT.
Wrecks have only one result.

When the information is purchased, the resultant information is added to the save file as visit information. This is why the universe map shows the object wheter or not you visited that system or not. The entry for Detroit is
visit = 3197916744, 31

There is usually a second visit, New York being the exception. This is because New York is the primary system and will appear no matter what system you start the game in. (This only applies to vanilla games with NY)
For example Stuttgart wil yeild;
visit = 2281172098, 1 Stuttgart System
visit = 3205329218, 30 Planet Stuttgart

The reason I chose Detroit is because it is the very first entry in the mbases.ini file for knowledge. Not a coincidence, it is also the first entry in that section of knowlwdgebase.ini. Even more, the next entry follows in parallel throughout both files. If Detroit or whatever is offered again, it is a new entry not just the same data.
It was interesting to say the least.

Pascal

As mentioned before, storing it again as BINI will gain much more performance. It makes removing the zeros look quite senseless actually.

This is my repeated take on this “Save FL” board and it is so curious how it happens to be a fitting take on any topic within it. And I have yet to read anything that would come close to a response at all, be it in agreement with my rather provocative opinion, or in challenge of it.

For good or bad reasons, I love Freelancer both as the game it is and as what it gets me to do working on it to any goal. It lead me to cultural classics and studying of arts, story-telling, and several other topics. I may have gotten there without it, but if I had nothing good to say about it or about my work with it, I wouldn’t still be here. And I think nobody else should. Infact, I challenge anyone whose reasons to be here and to work with us are not to be found within themselves to leave.

I cannot appreciate those any less, who think they could gain web popularity through their project or advance some delusional scenario of a future to Freelancer. People who think there is anything to be gained here other than personal joy and interaction with fellow modders are not only delusional but in fact a threat to at least my reputation as a Freelancer modder who does it for its own sake.

I also cannot appreciate those any less, who claim they are here for the community’s sake rather than for the community. People who claim they see no future for the game but they stay here for altruistic reasons sacrificing their precious time for the benefit of a community that is not only unthankful but also headed for nothing, are both inconsistent in their reasoning (i.e. intellectually dishonest) as well as advancing a cynical view of what we do and leading us to miserable thoughts about it and in many cases away from it.

Now why would we care about one’s reasons? Not at all. I prefer to assume that anyone who is still with us, is so for good reasons and if someone happens to not find any when examining his reasoning, I prefer that person to make a decision to leave. We don’t need rationalizations abusing the unpopularity of Freelancer and jumping to that it could be helped and we neither need sacrifices from people who but only do them to keep complaining they did.

Keep your reasons to yourself and let us enjoy what we do and please each other with where we get. The future of Freelancer, Star Citizen, the genre or anything else along the branch must not have any impact on how we continue our work. It would make something we love depend on something beyond our control and thus exposing us to all kinds of disappointment and you hit me a PM if I’m not representative of you saying that we do not want to be disappointed. If you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, or, of course, for that matter, stop doing it, don’t look for justifications or excuses out there, look for reasons of your own. If you want you can, and your energy bill is your limit. If you don’t want, you don’t have to and don’t you think you do anyone a favor if you keep trying.

SolCommand wrote:

wasabitoy wrote:
Jun’ko Zane I Love you!!! hooooorahhhh!!!

Amen !!

Amen squared!

Thaddeus,
Thank you very much for that. I do appreciate it!

NeXoSE wrote:

Syd wrote:
A sequel by MS (or any other mayor publisher) is the worst thing that could ever happen to Freelancer.

And as FF says, even you get the source code, you actually just get a old wheel maybe even made with old design pattern, and it may make you crazy when you want to improve it.

Pretty much, I wouldnt really pay for it at this point. Only thing they could do is release it for free now, but yeah the probability of that happening is pretty much 0.