adoxa wrote:
Maybe even have a “holographic” logo floating above the ship…

Interesting idea perhaps linked to clan or a faction license? Would be even nicer to have it worked out so you need some kind of advanced tracking/targeting equipment to see them? It would certainly provide an advantage in large scale battles to know who’s who beyond your immediate target.

@ Alex: Yeah I thought about that after the post

Sits down with Xar and Timmy
Hey guys I may not be an Ace modder but I can tell when something smells funny here look at Daniels second post, He says he’s not the creator but his sig says he is

Second and slightly more disturbing, is the SWAT_OP-R8R user. Now I don’t know Swat personally but I do believe that he has been a member of this site for more than 24 hours and made more than the 2 posts listed here.

I included the SS so that things can’t be changed.

I like the ships themselves, though they don’t really look like “Freelancer” ships you said that they are for a new faction in your mod? If that’s the case you must decide on a background for the faction, eg. are they an emerging Sirius faction or perhaps the faction is from somewhere else entirely. If it’s the second who can say what would be right for them, look at the nomad ships, nothing could be too wild for them, anyway it’s your mod have fun with it

I occasionally have the same issue usually a reboot fixes the problem for me. If you’ve done that then check your connection to your router especially if your connecting via wifi, freelancer hates wifi. IF that doesn’t help try the starport’s connection tutorial HERE also right at the top of the page

Ok mod is shrunk about as far as I can go and keep with the design I have in mind. The original link at the top is updated to the new rar file. Now hopefully on to other technical problems. TY again F!R for the help.

Edit here are the screenshots I’ve been promising for a bit now.

Umm the newest version, if I’m not mistaken is called Exiles. Check their HOMEPAGE to be sure

Ok thanks for the useful feedback I do appreciate it. Special thanks to F!R that tool is very helpful in letting me see where I was going wrong with transporting the mod out of my test folders. I should have a better condensed version in a couple days.

@J. Walker: Ty I am aware of how Disco’s mod installs and I hope to do something similar in the near future, but as I’ve never created an installer of any sort some research will be required before that comes to be.

@sumanuti: Many things are still locked in my mod due to a glitch with the model for the core of the story line I’m following (it hadn’t arrived) I left several weapons and ships on the shelf and a few of the core pieces were left hidden in there. I hope to have it and the new systems released as soon as my other technical difficulties have been fixed.

@FF I’m well aware of that but as I said above I hope to have it fixed in the next few days here

Ok sorry was AFK all weekend or I would have responded sooner.

@Dromdary I thought all backup files had been removed but obviously either I missed them or FLMM recreated them at some point. I’ll go back into it and find the rest. On the subject of screenshots I already said I’d post some ASAP but frankly I’m one SINGLE FATHER with 2 full time jobs that does this as a hobby so if it takes me time to do something so be it, my help although very competent is just as much limited in their free time.

@Alex I’ll look again but I’m not sure how much I can actually shrink it. I would rather NOT use FLMM or it’s script abilities for several reasons not the least of which is the afore mentioned backup files. I will however be look at alternatives such using an installer to shrink the d/l size, or making some of the gfx stuff optional. Not all of it is optional due to new stuff being added as I expand the universe.

@ anyone who wants to argue in this thread or take negative tones. I won’t beg you to play and to quote my self " I DON’T CARE IF YOU PLAY" I do this for fun and to learn. If you don’t like what I do or how I do it go play in another thread. If the behavior continues I’ll ask for thread deletion and continue as I originally planned, to have a private mod and invite only server. I really could care less. THE ONLY REASON I PUT THIS UP HERE WAS BECAUSE OF THE HELP CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THIS COMMUNITY HAVE GIVEN ME.

throcken wrote:
Why would anyone in their right mind program a game that way?

Microsoft?

Dromedary wrote:
It’s a bit porky, 800+mb, does not equal a few tweaks. Without screen shots or videos, won’t touch it

Fair enough Dromedary, and Screenshots will be coming shortly. But since almost every Gfx (the largest part of the game) has been updated guess what it’s big, add in the fact that there are tweaks to almost every other file in preparation for future additions.

Edit: Also to everyone else, as I said in another thread, I don’t care if anyone else ever plays on my server/mod, I’m building this cause I want to and because I enjoy it. Those that do come play will always be most welcome and valued but the rest can go play elsewhere

The initial drop of the Requiem mod is now live and available for download. You can get it HERE .

The Server has been moved to a dedicated box along with the player files from the old server (so if you played on the vanilla server you can jump right in. The initial mod sees many graphics and gameplay tweaks to bring the graphics closer to modern standards and add a few new abilities. I originally intended to make the gfx updates optional but due to future planning for the mod it was decided to make them mandatory since players that can’t handle those may have alot of difficulty handling some of the future developments.

The next update (delivered automatically) will see the first wave of larger transports including such favorites as the Armored Transport. The cap on these will be between 1000-1500 cargo space. They will in some cases carry extra weapon/equipment slots for customization into Combat Freighters. More details on those as they get setup.

By your wording your trying to set yourself as an admin, from in-game right? If that’s so then here’s the easy (and afaik only) way to do it: start the game join server etc. Then alt-tab out (or play windowed) then in the FLHook console type the setadmin…. command. FLHook won’t let anyone with out admin permissions access admin commands and may return that error

Thanks Skotty that was fast. I’ll let you know how it works as soon as I get to it . I’m just polishing up the final details for my initial release so might take a couple days before I open it up

Interest? I think I have a definite interest. I totally suck at modelling lol

Well S*** LS it’s a shame to see it go. I think though I can safely say on behalf of the entire FL community past and present thank you for all your hard work and helpful advice. I also hope you continue to poke your head in here once in a while and keep us updated on your game. I’m quite interested in it myself.

as to your title, it sounds like this mod is kind of a personal enjoyment idea as much as anything so do it anyway. I recently restarted building my mod and hope to have the first version available for the public to play with shortly. Why? Cause I can and I want to. If no one else ever downloads and plays my server, that will be their loss IMHO. I’m not doing it so much to make anyone else happy (although if people do come and play their input is valued greatly), I do it cause I love this game. I wish you luck and hope to see what you accomplish

J.Walker wrote:

the problem is they could not find it. In other words, they (at the time, basically lost the source code for the game).

huh common problem with microsoft stuff

So let me get this straight. They would be willing to sell it if they could find it? lmao I just had an image of microsofts’ offices looking like something outta one of those shows about pack rats

No worries Vital if something occurs to you let me know

Ok vital my bad I forgot to specify that I was refering to random encounters at this point there is no missions against them. Although I’m not sure it really matters at this point. I do know that mods like 88 Flak and Disco both spew death messages when someone dies but it’s usually generic" player x was killed was killed by NPC" perhaps if there’s a way to make it say "player x was killed by Y NPC " it would be a short hop to having that saved in a log that i can have scanned and give me that info?