Crossfire 1.8 -- Coming Soon.

I dunno if it is true or not -

What I do know is what I like and I like that.

nice analysis of the situation and I too, concur!

Dr.Straw can we receive this Blue pills without recipe?^^
j/k

While i agree that 1.8 will change almost nothing, when it comes about ppl behavior or so on, however i must disagree that 1.7 can fulfill ppl appetites atm.

For me 1.7 is quite ok.But i am here only 10 months and i know and saw and feel and i will agree, that old players are bored.

1.8 should be used like turning point in both, game fun and better control in game by the SP.

Imo

ps
wise we must be...not cunning

And that "X" saying would be me .

I like your post, Straw. If I would have said something like that, I'd probably get my ass banned or something.

I installed Discovery 4.85 yesterday. I have no fear in telling its name, since I bet everyone knows it. If they don't, please edit my post . So... as I said, I installed it. It's better than CF, and this is because it's more exciting. CF is nice, more advanced than Discovery, but it's not exciting enough!

First of all, we don't need all those announcements such as "Please be patient, you'll get CF 1.8 in a couple of weeks or so". That's what Discovery team said, and they actually did release their mod in a couple of weeks, as announced. CF team did not. In fact, those couple of weeks turnt into a couple of years.

I suggest you team tell us the real truth. A date (year)! I just turnt 17. Am I going to play CF 1.8 until I go to college, or not? lol

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Bond, you edited your post just after I posted mine (before the ----- ).

I play CF 1.7 since august 2008. It was awesome, at the beginning. Now, I went to Discovery, which I want to say that is awesome! Discovery experience is nothing like the CF. Can't explain it (or maybe I can, but not here ), but you got the point...

Uh i must admit that offering help from my side look like hypocritical to me, but right now i will offer my help and eat my proud.^^

my rig

ancient PC

Cpu 1.1 ghz celeron
Gpu Gforce FX-5600
SB Creative live 5.1
kingston 512mb sdram
HD maxtor 120gb ATA/133mhz
MB Asus TUSL2-C
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Ok im not interested in kissing ops back so ill just say straight out what i think. Thoughts on op first

Lets sum some things up here:
People are leaving the foum / game because this game has not changed for at least 2 years now. There was not one major game that could draw new interest on Freelancer so it is going down.
The attempts to make this a portal for the genre failed for that reason. That, and - no offence - the forum just looks ugly grey in grey
Every other mod has been releasing in way smaller intervalls. Adding new material keeps players interested.

CF 1.8 has really been announced at least 5 times for the next few months now, wonder why people are leaving the server then eh? There was not even a small update, not even my favouite weapon, the Debilitator was updated, even after i wrote you 4 pms with how to solve this bug, i even sent you the updated file per mail.

About roleplay: Since you have not played with us for lets say 3 years, Ill remind you on something. It is no fun to tax or fine someone. the fighting that follows is. Fights are fun without roleplay. so why do we have rules that lower the chances of a clean fight (the suicide thing that everyone disrepects for a reason). Freelancer could be much about exploring too, but after 5 years im sure many have seen enough.
Deactivating the Chat system would be the first visible change on the server. I like the idea to be honest, but almost everybody else does not. Remember that people pay for the server, they are donating to be precize. It is nothing compared to your workload and it might still leave you standing with a minus, but it means that they want to support you. If you want them to cooperate, maybe you could start with offering some cooperation yourself.

The serverpolice at least wanted to be a help and i am sure that most of them were. Personally i had great trust in them and i never heard anyone complain.

surely i dont know the things you do, but you have not been playing to catch up the athmosphere. Whatever you heard about it, i found it ok. More peaceful than in most other online games.
If hard words lead to a clanwar then that is the clans fault. Let them fight instead of bitching around. Who cares, theyll stop eventually and a little tension is fine too.
Its not like your BG clanwars, aiming to drive clans out completely.

As i said i think the atmosphere was ok and i dont know what it is you call "all the shit going on". Yesterday we agreed that we dont even know what the problem is really. We tried to find something that would make everything better, but guess what, we failed. There were some ideas of cause, i guess someone told you already, but appart from a better communication via TS (replacing system channel...hmmmmm) and Serverpolice 2.0 named council we did not find many ideas.
I would not be surprised if it turns out that you really ment that there are no active moderators (example, no idea how active what moderator is).
Nor would i be surprised if this was about players insulting each other.
I just dont know it and many others feel the same.

Of cause there should be a huge list of the communities faults here but we already discussed that yesterday and you know the results.

edit: kinda posted in the wrong thread but it originally was a response about discovery fl

you want to say OP ass, this English guys know specific term for such behavior we in Serbia say: "DUPEUVLAKAC" which literally mean" SMB who trying to draw in the ass"

Nice post Black, mostly, but idk why i am so sure that u just jump in this topic without reading all and up to date.lol

edit: yes half of ur post is in wrong topic but who care^^

and BLack ahhhh u was that open.

and again this can't be translate "Ala mu je rekao, svaka mu cast"

rofl

omg

I don't understand why all of ya are complaining about not releasing 1.8 as nobody is responsible to give free products to entertain the rest. In my point of view it is very silly to write against OP not keeping the release date. It is that simple either you are bored then leave CF or just play the game and w8 for the big update without opening your big mouth...

OK, People need to stop throwing blame every way they choose. I get it you're not agreeing with Ops latest decision, but there is no point in complaining about not getting something u haven't payed for.

Exactly ...

Very good

Btw. I like that Juneau will be dockable

Alright, alright, OP. I know Discovery is a small mod (less than 100 MB for their MASTERPIECE - aka 4.85? rofl), but anyway... since Cf 1.7 is almost empty...

As soon as CF1.8 is out, the hell with Discovery!

3 GB mod?! Then you really got some work to do... Discovery team (which, as they say, is very competent and has many people involved - yea, right) worked for half a year or so to come up with a 100 MB mod...

But anyway, OP, please stop telling us to be patient. We have been!!!

I know the current progress of CF since... uhm... 1-2 months ago . How about you update us?

yes, OP usually update the info about the mod. But radu meant when OP update the server and "us" heh.

Also, when Radu said he installed Discovery, just meant he has it, not that he really play itas I saw him today lol

Some people are supporting you( OP ), some people like you but they are neutral in the problems, and other few also like you, more or less but they don't like others and between them.

About the fun thing, I've made trips to Hyperspace, for old and new, now I made a Starflier TDM special event, with beta tests and it's a thing that is attractive for everybody, as it can be noticed on that thread, and I noticed ingame as how many people contacted me. PX is also makeing some random events like last man standing TDM in other systems... Event Managers got active to make the events, like the oens this week... even it's not something really different or new... theese are the only things we can do to improove as community members.

And I still like to say about a possible add to the CF 1.8, of a route really really hard, that there would be a route to a place/system with many NPCs, with low/normal attacks in the way, so one player can't survive that trip alone, except in group. And the prize of reaching the destination, and killing some bosses or docking with an organic base(as I saw you made some) and buy/get those Ancient (that new nomad race you made) race's weapons (like DKA from DKs), maybe something like "Ancient Antimatter pulse" as Anciont Energy Cannons are already destinated to droids. And if it's to buy, and also to sell, the price of those antimatter pulse (or any cool name) wepswould be of houndreds of millions...(like 500 M ? :D) That would be a load ! of fun heh and noone would have loads of those things, as they would cost so much.

PS: And about reading updates... sadly the last update I see is *canceled* a thing that really don't motivate players be more active <.< *delayed* would sound as a thing linked with the problems arround the server.

AH FOEYE!!! just close or delete this thread. I am sick and tired of this shit.

You know there is probably 2 threads like this every 4rth month or so and its always the same thing. OP feels bad about something that's gone wrong and cf gets delayed yet longer and we cheer you up etc. Also sometimes blaming the community that they could've helped, some offered yet never got a response (like me).

The problem with CF is you wanted to give it a massive goal and achievement. But you let the community know about every little change you do (ok not all but almost everything). By the time I play cf 1.8 I will prolly get bored in 1 day because I know what to expect. But then again I know I will never see cf 1.8 because the damn games release date is (when its done). There is one game out there (ONLY ONE OTHER GAME) with the same words underneath its name for release. Is it out yet? OF course not, they are STILL developing it.

With all that said I am TRULY sick of all the shit from this community mostly coming from threads like this. I hope you improve your quality standard soon OP because you just dropped to the last notch in my book.

Oh and one more thing, it would be a damn shame to see cf 1.8 never release as well as the swat community to fall. I can say this though, cf might never release, but the swat community is just to big to simply die. expand more in other games than freelancer and I'm sure it will last longer. Swat community just cant die, I don't think that will ever happen unless OP pulls the plug which he wont. Theres just no logic to the reason to do that.

Exiler, the most stupid post i've read for this month

yet, one of the few true oppinions here. Now go on agreeing with op and have fun