LAN issues

Greetings Dieb! Welcome to SWAT and also to Crossfire!

Sadly, your brother's situation is unfortunate, there are rules on the servers for a reason and the role-play is there to keep things interesting and ever-changing...(and keep the server from becoming boring... Shocking, I know! )

Yes, I too have run into the issue of deactivating the mod and it screws up, making me have to delete Freelancer, the FLMM 1.3 Mod Manager, the entire mod itself and reinstall everything again.(but it's worth the hassle! )

Sooooo... Sorry to say, if your brother isn't into dealing with rules, the role-play of the server and does not want to play singleplayer/offline, well... There isn't any other option for you both to play at the same time.

Honestly I would encourage you both to try to play together on the server, we have lots of friendly players from all over the world and many of them are willing to help you both starting out. The rules may seem a bit restrictive, but they are there to serve the server's purpose and to keep order. The role-play will allow you both to be freelancers starting out if you so choose and then you can do whatever you both want to do then, you do not have to join any clan right off the bat. However, this still means you are affected by it to some degree... If you are on the server during the right times though, you won't hardly have to worry about pirates taxing you, or mercs looking for a bounty on your heads or a cop fining you for smuggling or breaking laws. Besides, don't knock it till you've tried it, he might actually like the role-play once he's tried a role-play character he likes.. Besides Mercs, Cops, Pirates and Smugglers, there are other more "Freelancer" type role-playing characters not mentioned or officially declared on the server like the clan I'm in, the Silver Arrows. We're more like an "Order" type clan, we defend humanity from alien threats kinda like the Order do from the storyline. There is also another role-playing character I hope in the future will become more developed and accepted, like a "Miner" type character...

Anyway, you get the idea, I hope this helps and I hope your brother will reconsider his stance on the server... Take care and hope to see you guys in space!

You both can come as freelancers...
in CF freelancers are free to choose their own RP, and do whatever while it's not insulting or hacking or logical unhealthy stuff... it's not that in CF is like in Discovery, you can't move, can't even steal some asteroid loot from another without getting banned... here unless you cheat or provoking others with heavy stuff, there's nothing wrong for a freelancer, there's mroe freedom you can think

Also this version is new, and complicated, there're still few issues with server files ourselves still have to fix, so they're not ready to give out.

even if i would hand out the serverfiles you would not be able to use them as you can not sychronize your server with the client version