Posts by Shockwave

Yeah, I agree, Forlon. I have a few systems that I consider completely explored, but I'd still like that all-explored savegame (especially because of Altair, Canis and Inner Core), with all the nebulas, wrecks, solars, etc.

I'll try to make some test screenshots later today.

@Michael - I don't know how to actually make everything explored in singleplayer savegame... Maybe OP or Huor could help with that? I suppose it would be a better method to do it this way (avoid server issues, if there are any). For the HTML5 thingy, that is just an idea, but for the source it would be probably better to actually parse the code from source CF files on systems... This is just a thought, dunno.

@Forlon - I'm currently playing at 1336 × 768, 32 bit color, Sweet FX shader setting. I can go up to 1920 × 1080 (not using it currently because my computer isn't that fast, really). Does the map scale up? Also, it would be probably better to use the classic Freelancer GUI, since this font from modern UI is not very readable (at least to me). Anyways, I'd like to help updating that. Maybe we can make a plan on how to do it?

I'd just like to say, a damn good job OP, Huor and everyone else working on the mod... I've been flying around lately and have hardly recognized the old systems - I feel like a total newbie...

Quick question - I've been exploring the Wiki a bit and I've found that system screenshots are outdated / incomplete... Would it be possible to tweak a single character server side to have everything explored just to capture system screenshots? I know it's kinda cheaty in nature, but on a separate account and with permission would be for a good cause. Exploring everything (even with a Ragnarok or something) would take ages... I only thought of this as I was looking for the new jumpholes and it took me 1.5 hours just to do 3 systems flying a fighter...

Also, I may try to make some type of interactive map in HTML5 + Javascript, using canvas, on a few systems... This could be a nice project to practice animation and stuff on...

We have some moonshine in Sigma 17. Freshly brewed on Kurile.

happy new year, best wishes to you all!

Thanks a lot, peoples!

I was out on the street. No money, no assets. I couldn't reach anyone I knew. There was no one to help me. And I was stuck on Kyushu. Gorgeous world, but still an ass end of the Kusari space. It was indeed the lowest point I had ever reached. It was time to cash in a few favors.

First, I contacted a local smuggler with an offer: I'd transport a cargo of his to a Liberty system, provided he finds someone else to return his ship to Kyushu. He gladly accepted: working with the Knights gave me insights into backwater routes and low-traffic lanes that are very helpful when you want to move things under the radar. He equipped the ship to my specs, and I was on my way to California.

The trip itself went almost perfectly. Almost. I narrowly dodged a team of heavly armed police officers half way to California by using occasionally unstable jumpholes. The trip took almost twice as long as it should. By the time I reached Cali Minor, the smuggler that hired me was insane from worrying I got caught along the way, or worse. I docked the ship, the cargo was removed and I had a small amount of capital at my disposal.

So I hitched a ride to Los Angeles. I was looking for exactly one place and two people. First stop: Santa Monica maglev central station, lockers section, locker 30598, or more specifically, its content - a suitcase full of documents, recordings, ship manifests, scan printouts and a whole array of useful material. After getting that, I could look for the people.

First was Charlotte Sterling, m.d., a plastic surgeon and head of one of the most elite clinics on L.A. When she saw me sitting in her office on that sunny thursday morning, she was all . It was simple - I needed facial plastic surgery, tattoo removal and a nano rejuvenation, all of which were to be free and done immediately. She wanted to refuse, naturally, but the amount of dirt I had on her (ranging from black market organ trade, Cardamine smuggling, elite prostitution to paramilitary genetic experimentation and the like) prevailed and she accepted without much hassle. Blackmail as always proved to be a valuable tool when you have nothing else to lose. It was a time for new me. Five days later, I came out of the clinic looking like a different person.

Second came Liberty senator William "Billy" Auxon. Oh, he was a special one. A descendant of one of the original sleeper ship captains, Henry Auxon, one of the richest and most powerful families in Sirius sector, who had stakes in Ageira, Synth Foods, BMM and a crapload of other corporations - he was as good as targets get. Not because he was rich, but because he really enjoyed partying with what could only be described as ancient Romans-style parties, with rivers of wine, mountains of drugs and entire transports full of both male and female whores... He couldn't be blackmailed though. He was far too powerful for that. Instead, I wanted a simple repay of favors - I had organized and escorted some sensitive materials for him, his parties and his companies many times, and PX's international ban was affecting him a great deal.

It was simple - I wanted my assets unfrozen so I could work again, and he was powerful and well connected enough to provide me with that. I stayed at his mansion for three days until an army of his minions got it all worked out. Favors were called in, pressures were applied, two people disappeared and one was found dead after shooting himself six times in the back. Police called it a suicide, obviously.

I got my assets back. Ships, money, stored goods, all of it. Only catch was, I was to dissapear as quickly as possible.

The graphics is amazing even on low settings I normally use.

I'll replay the campaign again.

As I said to Huor in-game already, you guys did a brilliant job...

I stayed in Rheinland for a few months, running cargo between systems, even working for the House government occasionally, running prisoner transport from Berlin to Stuttgart. Those were the good times - making money was easy, even with the constant pirate threat looming over the heads of the Rheinländer.

During one such run, I came across a pilot with a callsign Black Arrow. We teamed up in a convoy and got talking about everything, and at one point I asked about his IFF tag, the PX. He explained that they were a mercenary clan that operated in both Sirius and Altair, and inqured if I would be interested in joining. I said I'd think about it.

We parted as friends, and went our separate ways, but his question got me thinking: I wasn't happy just running cargo around Rheinland - I wanted more. The Galactic Network was riddled with informations on the PX tag - the Knights of Mercy.

I decided to join. I contacted Black Arrow, saying "I'm in", sold my assets, and moved to Manhattan to register as a Knight.

I remember vividly how the icy shards of Alaskan nebula looked impressively deadly when I first jumped into what will become my new home. What followed was an intensive training with the Knights, bounty hunts, clashes with both pirates and police parties on a variety of jobs. I loved it. I became a valued member of a close-knit group whose power, wealth and information base was more than considerable.

I won't go into too much details here out of respect to my former clanmates. Suffice to say, it was fun, and an honor.

At one point, my assets were sufficient and I was free to do as I wanted, in terms of my clan involvement. I went on a prolonged vacation to an island resort on Kyushu, and went dark for a better part of the year.

(...)

One morning, I was woken up by a stratoflyer landing on a field next to my cottage. It was a messenger, urging me contact Knights' HQ. I dressed up and he flew me to Kyushu City. What I found there was a nightmare - the local PX office was sealed by order of the Kusari government. I immediately sent a message to a local Dragon contact and he had some disturbing informations: an international treaty was signed by Houses of Sirius as well as the Coalition to outlaw the PX and sieze the entirety of our assets.

I was shocked and furious. The news rippled through the Galactic Network, and doors once opened to me were now closing rapidly.

I had to intervene.

Next up: Part 7 - Dark times

I've seen similar bounties but during some "troubled" times... Dunno why this is on now. Too much money?

Pirates, quit sitting on your asses.

OMG...

Though my first reaction was "crap, this will mess me up", this actually opens up a whole new array of opportunities and will make the gameplay more interesting and dynamic, not to mention that the old asses like me who are used to doing things a certain way will be forced to look for new ways of handling things...

I'd say, implement it.

As denne mentioned,

|DP|denne will be the char for the clan admin-thingies,
and if there will be GRs or something like that, I'll do that (again, if that's ok).

Question - is this leader character also a GR?

Will this role be the same, or will we keep the separated roles?

In DP, essentially it's a split between denne and me...

Heh, what did you do?

I haven't seen Spock ever act, you know, over the top...

Remove space all together - we'll just run around teleporting between bases, drinking and talking in bars.

Ah yeah, sorry, only Dark Reigns produce the annoying alarm sound, the HQ has that chatter sound which is ok, imho...

Would it be possible to remove that goddamn alarm sound from around Dark Reign cannons and/or Coalition HQ?

Not to go into the whole "sound in space" thing (which is ok in nebulas up to a point, I guess), but that is sure shitty. No offense.

I've been flying around Altair lately and it's annoying as hell, up to the point of wanting to manually edit the .wav file for this into 1s of silence. Didn't do it, but still...

Happy new year!

hehe merry christmas