What I find interesting about CF is the fact that commodities change locations - ie; whiskey ( whisky ) prices change and swap planets, this is the same in reality, Red Label was available in the Uk until a few years ago when local sales were stopped and this product can now only be bought overseas. As an ex Merchant Naval Engineering Officer I travelled 7.5 million miles around this planet and saw products that were local but as trading efficiency has increased, some of these products are available worldwide, so no probs from me on this issue.
As for ships themselves, I'm using a Bullpup Freighter and I like it a lot, good cargo space, carries 9 weapons, 3 of them L9 turrets, but some ships simply don't perfom as their specs would have you believe. This again is similar to reality, a new car might sound great, a typical sales ploy, but once bought you might then find it's not what you expected, a kind of ' horses for courses'.
Systems however could do with being toned down slightly, I've 1 gig of DDR 400, with a X1600 Radeon Pro 512 meg, but still get screen freeze in both the DK systems and at Yakutsk.
One thing of note however is; Gaia or Gaea, known as Earth or Mother Earth (the Greek common noun for "land" is ge or ga). She was an early earth goddess and it is written that Gaia was born from Chaos, the great void of emptiness within the universe, and with her came Eros. She gave birth to Pontus (the Sea) and Uranus (the Sky). This was achieved parthenogenetically (without male intervention). Other versions say that Gaia had as siblings Tartarus (the lowest part of the earth, below Hades itself) and Eros, and without a mate, gave birth to Uranus (Sky), Ourea (Mountains) and Pontus (Sea).
Therefore the Sol System is represented in the Vanilla FL as Edinburgh, which means there are 2 Earths.
Manhattan is known as The Devil's Kitchen, The Dyson's Sphere would represent Styx, The Ames Research Centre and the Kepler mission is part of Nasa, thus The Boridin Space Station duplicates what is already there.
Having said all this I love CF, but it's very annoying having too many ships spawning so frequently, which I guess is why the Vanilla FL was reduced to the basic setup, and why some mods simply don't work.
Sorry to bore you with these details, but I think it best I get them off my chest.
On one final note, CF does have a few missing details, mineable / unmineable areas are detected but don't show, the number of new wrecks do not tally with the readme file. Missions aren't as one would expect as some are right in the centre of a minefield, or areas that aren't accessible.
As for MP / RP, that is not what I bought the game for, as I design my own own birthday cards etc for non-commercial use, and being an admin on a few other forums means I simply don't have time.
All in all, this one excellent forum, and I greatly appreciate the hard work you modders do.
