Posts by Duplicate Vlad

  • Boring............

    Mate:


    You will not be able to compete with the rest of us in game if you don't look for each individual piece of equipment/ship. We'll have mapped the known universe and you'll have squat.


    Seriously...Just look through everything, check the shipyard/eq sales on every station/dockable. For ships, buy every single one and see which one you like best.


    I did that either before or during 1.61. Its very worthwhile.

  • LR meeting

    Actually...I think CF has. At least, we've definitly increased the number of active players, maybe not highest server count though.


    Also, good to see yeh on the forum Mizebelle and Abras ^^

  • Christmas on Crossfire

    Merry Christmas to you too Gunny ^_^


    And to everyone else out there, whatever holiday you celebrate, may it be fun, filled with intelligent family members (I know I know...a contradiction in terms), and lots of shiny new loot for yeh.


    --Blur

  • Can someone help with...

    Am I writting with the assumption that my audience will KNOW what Freelancer is, or not?


    Am I writting with the assumption that my audience is a FAN of the sci-fi/space-sim genre?


    *******************EDIT*****************


    Well, I went ahead and wrote something with the assumption that my target audience are people who've been playing space-sim/sci-fi games for a while. Here's a very rough draft, with no really discernable ending. I'm just trying to see if I got everything covered that you wanted ^^:


    Do you remember Descent?


    Freelancer is rather like Descent, except with more role-play/purpose. In the single player mode, you are a Freelancer (an individual who wanders the universe, doing odd-jobs for people who will pay. Think Handyman, but with guns) named Trent, and you find yourself in the middle of a fray between the leaders of the different nations, and a mysterious group known as The Order.


    And the Multi-player? Aaah, the multi-player is amazing! Firstly, you can still enjoy whatever it is you were doing in the single-player online, just with a different set of parameters. You can trade, but youll have to deal with player pirates, which is much harder then dealing with the wimpy Rogues in single-player. You can still pirate, but youll have to deal with REAL police, hard-asses who wont get off your case till you bribe them or die.


    Second, you can participate in the community, which depending on the server you go to, will either be very bad or very good.


    While all the above things are very good, the best part of Freelancer is the mods. On ModDB, under the Freelancer section, there are only two Freelancer mods listed; Discovery and Crossfire. These are really the only major mods of note. Discovery is good for the number of players. At last count, the most online in the server at the same time was 128 people.


    The Crossfire server on the other hand, is good for content, and the style of role-play:


    New factions, including a Coalition faction, whose HQ is in the brand new Altair sector.
    New weapons, ships, equipment, etc. For Starlancer fans, there is something else of interest: The SL ships have been restored, and are worthwhile, buyable ships in the Crossfire mod.
    Over 60 new systems. Clans are also able to buy their own systems, where they can set their own rules, keep clan banks without the threat of losing all of your equipment, as well as many other benefits.
    The role-play is very, very diverse, because each clan/freelancer can do whatever they want to do. If a clan wanted to be a military entity, they could setup military blockades on certain systems, help police the Houses, or any number of other things. Likewise, another clan could be a Crime Syndicate whos only goal is to destroy the military blockade on a certain system, overthrow the tyrannical reign of the House Lords, or even just smuggle illegal goods from Point A to Point B.
    Dynamic Economy: Every day the market of illegal goods changes from one dockable to another. This makes trading and pirating much more interesting, because the traders arent whoring themselves to one trade route spanning only 4 systems. Instead they have to travel the universe to find more profitable trade routes.
    Spinning planets


    I could go on and on, but what for? You guys have the website, check it out!



    PS: This is the one on CF, in case you can't tell. I'll hopefully get to the other articles here before Christmas, but no promises.

  • Freedom X-Interceptor

    Guys I doubt you are being insulted. Kermie (as I see it) was merely pointing out that since CFPD's clan sys got nerfed, yours should too.


    On the other hand, SMG has offered many a time to help train me in Arena, etc. They've helped me with smuggling/money making with at-cost or below-cost prices for their hire.


    Anyways, that's all ^^


    Thanks for the offer Kermie, I'll probably take you up on it if it happens again ^^

  • Freedom X-Interceptor

    *Sniff*


    Dop, are you insulting me??!!


    lol


    Yeah, so I fight kinda odd. Fear me ^_^


    Anyways...If this keeps up, I'm just gonna go buy the eagle or try and get perm for the shroud. I had another person today tell me he thinks my ship is bugged.

  • Freedom X-Interceptor

    Hello,


    I'm wondering if this ship is bugged. I use it, and I've used it back when I was here before. I don't normally get complaints about lag or anything else with my battles or PvP, but today I had two different people complain about my ship.


    They said that their missles could not track my ship to hit it. I like to think that I'm just a good pilot, and through my use of secondary weapons I escape unscathed (sometimes ^^) from combat.


    However, I just figured i'd check.


    Is this ship bugged?

  • dunno

    Its true. Everytime we're on together, we either go raid the nomads...or pay a visit to a few of the police ^_^


    That last is definitly the most fun...Heh.

  • Server Down

    Hey guys,


    Server's down, and has been down for a while. Can one of the SP's restart it?


    If somethings being done to the server and I just don't know about it, sorry.


    --Blur

  • LR meeting

    Wow. Sad to see this. OP, thats garbage. Sorry you gotta put up with that crap mate. Also, props on the ideas and keeping stuff going.


    Exactly how viable is Blaster's option?


    Have you guys started putting yourselves out there (advertising) on other servers as alternatives to LR? Because (as I see it. Feel free to ignore me since I haven't been around in a while, this is just an outsiders POV) thats the only way this is ever going to get resolved, right?


    One, or the other of you, has to have results. Having been using both LR and SWAT for a number of years (although SWAT has recently changed to being much better then it was before, going into every game much more aggresively), both of you guys had great potential to start with.


    SWAT, however, is ahead in this, because TLR is making fools out've themselves. Or at least being ridiculously silly, which is percieved as the same thing ^_^.


    So yeah. Don't remember where I was going with this, other then TELL people about yourselves. S'the only way anythings gonna change.