Weird incident in New york.

I cant really remember the story behind all that... but, perhaps you confuse with Discovery ???

right, there is rheinland military in new york sometimes and they are allied to liberty police so they will attack you there if you start trouble

Actually, since the killing of Admiral Schultzky the presence of Rheinland military in NY system is quite strong all over the system - for ... understandable reasons.

And Zebby , your lucky, there are even Rheinland Gunboats and Wolverine 's flin' around

Politically speaking, the Liberty President was asking for the Rheinland presence in Liberty space to increase the security... that's why btw ...

technically speaking, its how the original game was

Originally speaking ... either CR or MS ... which i also dont know whom tried to make it that way ... i still like it btw ... hehehe ...

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original like "we didnt even touch anything in that system" so whatever you experience there was in the vanilla game

sry for this

but:
CR is in the Special Thanks category https://swat-portal.com/forum/…e-Liberty-Security-Force/ last page.
Not in the Freelancer Team

actually CR screwed it and MS stepped in to get the game finally done
and for gods sake they have redesigned the gameplay

zebby12: it rly could be good idea to learn little more about FL development before do some own judgement

... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer_(video_game) can give some insight into it.

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actually CR screwed it and MS stepped in to get the game finally done
and for gods sake they have redesigned the gameplay

You know, OP, based on this and some other threads I have read where Chris got mentioned... I get the feeling you aren't the biggest fan of the guy.

I am truely not
his methods are disgusting,
he is an attention whore,
its all about making money,
he makes claims that are not true,
he discredited other games and practically the entire genre
he didnt produce anything successful for meanwhile more than 17 years

the original concept of freelancer didnt allow the player to really fly the ship
it was more like in eve online
You clicked on something and then had to decide for a maneuver... go there *click*... follow this target *click*... fire these guns *click*...
absolutely no free flight
an early FL beta (one year prior the release) still contained many elements of the original concept and even in todays game you can find traces of the old flight model

putting this aside FL was already in development for 4 long years
But there was no working game (not even close to be working) and i personally would assume microsoft didnt want to waste more money with a project that didnt work out well.
CR sold his company in 2001 to microsoft where Jörg Neumann became lead designer and the whole concept for FL changed.
You can think what you want about MS.... but in my eyes without them and their decisions we would have never seen Freelancer released.... and for sure not the freelancer that became so popular.

What many ppl also very often forget (or dont know) is that MS supported FL for many years and even actively supported FL modding.