Posts by Lord Azlan

Maybe OP has been selling our personal details to US marketing companies.

I think we all should expect some unsolicited emails from dodgy US firms selling life insurance and enquiring whether we want to pay $100 for a health check.

OP? how much did you get to sell us down the river and will you invest those funds into the maintenance of the server or buy yourself a new holiday home in Florida?

Doesn't Data Protection exist in this place?

I am calling my lawyer - Tito where are you mate?

Shouldnt there be a category for 15-17 for people like me?

Its frustrating that us youths are left out of the statistical analysis yet again - shame!"!

Nice summary - and it looks pretty accurate considering the number of old geezers I meet in game.

Maybe the 57 65+ year olds can form their own clan and some sort of Lords Tribunal where all our petty squabling and fighting gets resolved?

These geezers probably have lots of wisdom.

We can call it the Crossfire Ancients Club or even the Solomon Soothsayers.

Noce to see also a third of us are women - and that explains a lot about some people online too.

Yeah - I have swapped ship a few times - what I dont want to do is take my explorer ship all the way back to my mining ship - then switch - then finish mining - then take my explorer ship all the way back -

I am thinking to use a cheaper (free) ship to travel in - as losing a fully equipped ship can be expensive to replace.

I have also replaced my gats with lasers which are more accurate - but have shorter range -

When I kill those pirates I prefer to look them in the eye when I thrust my blunt blade into their beating heart

Mwhahahahaha!!

What is also nice is that there seems to be a few diff ways to make money

Mining
Trading
Salvaging
Production
Bounty Hunting or npc killing
Doing missions and earning Loyalty Points LOL - I am looking forward to doing some of these

Erm - let me see

Location : I am lost in space - I cant even tell you where I was to get back even there

Career path : Whatever takes my fancy - although I did specialise in Mining and Industry - I will undock and set sails and follow my nose and take me where the space winds take me.

For those that remember Elite and the vastness of space in that game - Eve is similar as there are so many systems and stations - you get a good feel for the vastness of space and how insignificant your little spec is.

One of the first things I will do is explore Gallante space - which I think is pretty big in itself.

Re mining - I think it's a shame that option is not available in Freelancer as a more viable option to make money - some of us remember doing that stuff in Elite LOL

On my last few days in Crossfire - I did actually explore that a bit and was able to mine some water (LOL) in Magallen - but apart from the diamond mining in Hiruga - I cant remember if this career path - is a good choice in freelancer - it would be something I would explore more if I had more time to play in freelancer.

I would reckon Braben and Bell would quite like Eve.

After our recent conversation Ryzune, I have purchased a new ship which can fit upto 6 turrets - and I think I will looking to pay back some pirate scum for their insolence.

Re the ships - LOL - they look real alien strange - I am not sure if some of them would win an award for strange art design

First ship - Reebok football boot
Second ship - Insectoid
Third current ship - looks like half of an airplane if you cut one in half - from to back LOL

But yes - a lot of variety there

I think I need to have at least 2 ships- one for mining and one for exploring - but I am not sure how to do this - but following the tutorial missions I know you get some free ships which can be used to transport your self from mining ship and explorer ship.

Best wishes mate.

Days 4 and 5

Pirates!"!" Damn them all to hell and back!!

These days saw my first experience of death and flying in that choccy egg well known to Eve lovers.

In Eve - when you die - you lose your ship, your cargo and your equip.

My fault I suppose for taking on about 20 pirates myself in my newbie ship with no fighting skills - damn mining laser won't work against ships!!

Each time I died I had to fly across a few systems in my egg to a system selling the ships and equipment I wanted - an insurance policy each time soften the financial blow.

The mission itself was to smash a pirate bloackade of a jump gate - which I did in the end - leading to me learning some new stuff about using weapons and ammo.

Met some guys in the mining fields who had heard my sad story and offered me 2mill cash - basically to shut up!!

I spent that money on a 4.5 mill skills booster - appararent training your learning skills at the begin will save you significant training time in the long run.

Been offered starting positions with two diff corps - one of them required experience in being a jerk - and I said I do that in real life.

The trial version does not make everything available to you - so I think I am stuck in this ship - best I could find - until I register.

I chatted to the Eve forums about comabt and I am now ready to test my new found knowledge in some killing pie rat missions - how i hate those pie rats"!!

With that short beard and tache - maybe you should have been a goat rather than a Lion?

Seriously - you are very handsome.

Days 2-3

AN extensive tutorial is available to take you through many of the games options and opportunities.

Typically for me - I followed my own route for a bit and spent hours mining to purchase a better ship - only to find out later I would have received a good ship following the tuturial in 5 minutes, Damn!!

Blueprints - how I hate them!!

These are design sheet for constructing equipment - or gulp - even a ship - providing you have the raw materials and know how - you can manufacture it.

Thing is - once you put the whole shebang in motion - the scientists/engineers take the blueprint for use and then you spend two hours looking for the damn thing - as it dissapears from your inventory.

One of the missions invloves using a codebreaker to access the cargo hold of a marooned fellow agent (killed by pirates) and retrieve items that allow you to INVENT and IMPROVE on an original blueprint. Damn it was hard finding an organisation willing and able to take on that job.

Made my first Million then promptly blow the cash on a few ships and equipment that I could not use - due to my lack of skills (crap)

Tried my hand in some combat and even blew out 12 pirates (not easy) and then smashed their habitat into smithereens.

This guy Ryzune appeared on the scene and we met outside an asteroid belt for lunch and a capacinno. That pic he posted on the other tread is a fake - in real life (EVE LIFE) he is quite evil looking and has scars all over his face.

My current actions:

1. Raise rep with a particular faction by doing missions for them so when I use their refineries I pay less tax = more profit

2. Improve skills in dogfighting to do the odd missions that involve combat

3. Make money by mining the Veldspar as the price of Tritanium (you refine Veldspar) is going through the roof!!

Day 1

I am "No Mahd"

Long 637 MB download - but then its easy to get running.

Intro is interesting about the history and then its off to start your char - choice of 4 races and then many sub sections depending on your career/skill choices and factions.

I am following the in game tutorial which is pretty good but basic = the game seems very complicated at the begin.

Met some secret agents for doing important jobs that will earn me cash and beign my ascension up the corporate ladder - most of these missons involve - MINING FOR RAW MATERIALS - GULP

At least I have been able to follow my life long ambition to become a miner (haha) - always wear a hard hat in space!!

Chatted to a few people and most are helpful - but seeing a group of 2700 rookies is strange.

Current cash 133k (hah!)

Can I transfer my Freelancer credits to Eve?

They are both online games

I will have a good look into Eve from tonight as I am having a long weekend.

Wish me luck - gulp - my second online experience.

They say nothing can ever match your first kiss.

Insurance?

Damn I thought it was a game!!

I hate those blood suckers in real life - now they have even invaded our online recreational activities.

Maybe I can extend my real life insurance policies to cover me int he game against pirates?

????

Wtf???

Man I am gonna Gank Supreme your ass for sure.

How dare you insult me - (even though technically you could be right)

Quote

Originally posted by Ryzune
A ganker is someone who kills other players, usually ones weaker than them, and oftentimes without warning.

Well if you said the above - then added

"Then runs away before the cops arrive"

I would happily accept it as a desciption of my own activities.

Maybe I am Gank Supreme or something?

Pssst!!

Everyone forward their Viagra spam to OP - that's what I have been doing.

Let's see if we can crash his pc - or worse - sell him some Viagra!!

Well I got it last night - a huge download 700 MB or something.

I will give it a go over the next few weeks and post a newbies guide to EVE when its over.

By the way - what is a Ganker?

Cheers Captain - will give it a go when I get some free time this weekend I hope.

I assume I can rely on you for newbie hints and tips?

Quote

Originally posted by Dustdevil

**Get a 14 Day Trial Account on EVE, Play it.! Join a corporation, work as a team, Enjoy it** Stick with it if you like it

Ok okay OKAY

You have Ryzune have tweaked my interest - how do I infact do this?

You will need to uninstall everything - remove any shred of evidence Freelancer ever existed on your hard drive - and then re-install everything again.

That included uninstalling FLMM

You need to find that disk again!!

Thanks mate

Sounds like a thumbs up from you

I see Amazon are doing both Bioshock and Stalker for about £35.00 so I may take a look.

Any more views from our beloved community will be well received.

Anyone had this one yet?

Apparently its a spirtiual successor to the Looking Glass Technology experience - they did the Ultima Underworlds and System Shocks and the Thiefs.

All I want to know - is it as good as any of these?

Can someone post a short review of it?