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AFAIK : no, unfortunatly ...

what for ? ... if it's free ... mostly

@RonaldoDaVinci

@No. 1 : That's something they have/had on every OS they released
@No. 2 : ... a darn long time. Enough for a BIG percentage to go pass their taxing border
@No. 3 : not more than 'usual' on purchasing a new OS, afaik
@No. 4 : nothing new and nothing that would equal the 'losses' from the long free upgrade

All in all = much less profit from selling it

So, where is the profit plus for microsoft - also in the future ? ....
And I'm sure they aim at nothing else than more profit, than they could make with the 'usual' ways.

.... don't ask how often I sent such messages already to NORTON .

btw : WB, long time not seen here

...... so, sounds like more often, smaller (or not so small) updates to "the windows" and its ... components/apps.

Only way I can think of atm, how they will get their money then : at some point you have to subscibe to microsoft windows for these updates, like a "pay-to-play" game .... only for the 'apps' (browser, X-box stuff, media player, ...) or for the OS itself too ?

Don't think I like this idea ...

Quote from SWAT_OP-R8R

Doors?

TRAP doors

then it will never work for me ... no fb-account at all

... get the same message ...

Quote from Lexxro

..."Ghost Docking" is also active. ...

hmmm, this shoud be inactive, even though its 'marked' as compatible (black letters).
Dunno if this has somehow messed up your installation (whole installation ).

Other than that : you will come across missions where you have to land on bases NOT compatible with cap-ships, whatever you might change in the shiparch.ini (just incompatible models, hitboxes, etc.). This will definitly happen in the CF added parts and might let you miss important 'trigger point' for continuing the story.

btw : you read the license aggreement during the installation process ? ... regarding changes to the mod ? ...

THX guys, clears things a bit ... regarding a decision of my own

Banning Ajay cuz CONGRAZ ... what topic ?

Banning Ronaldo for plagiating me

THX @Crusader that is an important bit of info.

This would mean, if I 'upgrade' from the win7 prof I have now, I will get a bill from microsoft in a years time ... when I would have still my win7 prof WITHOUT any additional fees, if I don't do this upgrade. ....

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Ja! Das Upgrade auf Windows 10 ist für unterstützte Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 Update und Windows Phone 8.1-Geräte kostenlos. Das kostenlose Upgrade ist ab der Veröffentlichung von Windows 10 für ein Jahr verfügbar und anschließend können Sie Windows 10 frei genießen.

Means :
... The free of charge update is available for one year after the release of windows 10 and after that you can enjoy w1ndows 10 for free.

Is there something different stated on the neglish site ??

Banning Mike, cuz I don't have any special reason for

Hmmm, did you test this tridef3d profile with vanilla Freelancer or another mod for it already ?

From your screeny I would also suggest it's more related to your system than Freelancer or Crossfire as it seems to relate to a .dll in the system and not the Freelancer/Crossfire library.
(Sry, if I might get it wrong, but I am anything but a computer/software crack.)

[heading]TSH mission 001[/heading]

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Attention to all officers,

because we are new, as an organisation, in space we need to build some official as also unofficial contacts with local governments. Last week visited Freeport 11 Rheinland government operative. He asked if we can do small favour for them regarding exploration in "new" systems around X-3043. Rheinlanders were always in need for minerals resources and now they are searching for planetary cobalt mining possibilities. Theirs main problem why they have limited possibility to do this by themselves are high criminal activity in most of these systems. Next could be that they used this occasion to test our organisation and see if we could be used for another tasks in the future. All in all is this a perfect occasion for us how to start with build above mentioned diplomatic links. With this said was decided to focus our interest to following systems: Nephele, Neophobos, Quantos. Below are given mission orders:

Mission orders

• Explore all above mentioned systems for possible planetary (moons included) mining operations.
• Destroy as much as possible criminals in these systems (and deliver theirs pods to prison stations).
• Report all interesting findings related to these systems.

Mission duration & rewards

• We not need to rush with this mission as it was not marked as an urgent matter. Still we should be able respond to Rheinlanders no later than 24th May
• Standard reward for this mission is 1 AP (activity point). In case that there will be shown extraordinary and reported activity, could be granted additional 1 AP.
• Reports about this operation could be sent via PM to me, or open new thread in our open section named with this operation number (like "Operation 001")

Good luck on this operation officers!

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• Part A : publication for Client
  
  Findings :
  
  Planetary sources for Cobalt were found on :
  
  • Lliusk moon of Planet Renegat - Remagen / Quantos System
  • Inair moon of Planet Skey / Neophobos System
  • Whosam moon of Planet Drake / Nephele System

  Assessment :
  
  Lliusk

  • access : very good due to the very near Frankfurt Jumphole
  • infrastructure : low to mediocre. Some living complexes and starting regular shipping to nearby Undiao moon due to its beginning Titanium mining have been established just recently by Kruger Minerals.
  • security : mediocre to good, only low to medium criminal activity, some Corsairs Legionaire, very seldom a few Hackers Daggers. These are kept at bay by numerous Bounty Hunter patrol parties as well as civilian convoy protection in this transit System. Only at the far end of the Trade Line occasionally stronger forces of VHF Outcasts and - not truly criminal butg also not Rheinland friendly - GMG patrols appear.
  • space environment : generally high background radiation in the whole system. Since Daumann has already a lot of experience with such an environment (Solarius Station) this shouldn't be much of a problem.
  • planetary conditions: treacherous surface conditions of its ice crust were reported by initial Kruger surveillance, that they, seemingly short of liquidity for the necessary investments, went for the easier conditions on Undiao moon. However, the obvious profits of having such abundant Cobalt resources at hand should easily repay for some R&D in appropriate surface equipment.

  
  

  
  
  
  Inair
  
  • access : medium to difficult. From Rheinland (Frankfurt System) three systems have to be past, one infested by Nomads, and it is about 40 k from next Trade Lane/human outpost away.
  • infrastructure : generally good. Planet Tobruk is a well growing colony due to spreading ALG activities. They have started to build an own shipyard in its orbit. Also Gateway is starting ground operations on the failed penal colony Planet Southport. However, the nearest station, Ghats Prison might be questionable help, since you can meet Liberty Rogues, Mollys, Outcasts and Corsairs there not only behind bars but also freely in the Bar.
  • security : low to mediocre. Maybe due to its questionable neighbourhood Ghats Prison, run by Junkers as its personnel, many criminal fighter wings of mostly Mollys and Corsairs will be met not only in the vicinity of the Planet Skye and its moons but already on entering the system by Jumpgate or one of the Jumpholes. At least the gate is guarded by an aging Bretonian Battleship, but the few Bretonian patrols as well as Bounty hunters are having hard times to at least lower the seemingly uneradicable criminals in this system.
  • space environment : Inairs mother Planet Skye has been declared unstable and due to be breaking apart sometimes in the next thousand years, with unforeseeable results for its moons. However, it seems stable enough for the Bretonian military to establish a military base on one of the other moons, Cerer, as is indicated by only lazily camouflaged military transport traffic in this area. And there would still be centuries of industrial exploitations of Inairs treasures left, well worth to be considered.
  • planetary conditions : good, seemingly a normal, icy moon surface, providing water-ice for for water itself as well as hydrogen and oxygen by its electrolysis and some Regolith and Hydrocarbons for buildings and material-processing, therefore reducing investment costs considerably.

  
  
  

  
  
  Whosam
  
  • access : medium to difficult. The same as for Inair applies also for Whosam. But it has one possible advantage, even though substantially longer, it can be accessed also through Bretonian Territory and the new systems The Corridor and Inner Cloud, thereby circumventing the Nomads threat in Freeport 7.
  • infrastructure : mediocre. There is corporate Severn Station, run by Planetform but almost on the other side of the system without sufficient Trade line connections. However, due to lots of traffic from Bretonia through the nearby Jumpgate to Inner Cloud other lines of support might be feasible and there is also a mining exploration operation of IMG on neighbouring Ghamwor moon with whom some form of mutual aid might be possible. The nearby Outpost Delta might be of questionable help. Even though many of the personnel comes from Bowex it is owned and ruled by the Bundschuh.
  • security : bad to low. The system is infested by many and then very heavily armed packs of all kinds of criminals of whom a high portion - of special interest for Daumann - is Rheinland originated, as the system also homes a big Red Hessians base, Lith Station. Regular law enforcing patrols are very rare and fighting of these criminals is mainly done by convoy escorts and in higher numbers also by GMG patrols - not too easy to accept by a Rheinland corporation.
  • space enviroment : very good. The surrounding asteroid field consists mainly of only small chunks of water with occasional stoney or carbonate components, what might come in handy for the sustention of any operation there and there aren't any radiation problems.
  • planetary conditions : good, just a normal small moon without any specialities - beside its rich Cobalt ores.
  • special note : If Daumann should decide for an operation on Whosam, they should do it with Good Speed. Intelligence gathered from pilots in the system and at the stations indicates, that BMM as well as IMG strongly consider applications for mining rights.

  
  
  

  
  
  Filed with SpO Department, |TSH| Main bureau, Ice Palace Station, Interims-Base at Stardate 22.5.2015.2.25
  
  
  Responsible officer : Superintendent APE
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  3-System survey for state of security and public affairs
  
  
• Part B : Confidential, for internal Clan information only
  
  
  
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  Notables on security and public situation
  
  'Questionable' Alliances :
  The 'front lines' between criminals and civilian as well as governmental institutions blur. The Bretonian government, officially in charge for the two settled systems visited during this survey mission can claim this only on paper.
  
  Neophobos
  
  The only governmental presence is the gate guarding, age old, merely modernized Battleship Pollux, barely able to provide cover for incoming traffic, reduced to a shelter for waiting until the criminals might have been driven away by tediousness and the surrounding radiation. The entry points for them, 2 jumpholes to Vespus and Regalis, are completly unguarded. It remains to be discussed, why the civilian corporations that use them frequently haven't reported their existence to the officials. Obviously the Bretonian gouverment suffers from a considerable shortness of personnel, resulting in such desperate and contraproductive actions as employing junkers to run their installations, esp. to be seen at Ghats Prison, that serves more as a support and recreational base for criminals than a detention facility.
  
  
  Nephele
  
  Searching for governmental presence here is futile. There almost isn't any at all. The only safe harbour for law-abiding pilots is Severn Station, far away from the jumpgate to X-3043, even further away from the jumpgate that connects via Inner Cloud and The Corridor to New London almost directly. But Bretonia isn't even able to secure these transit systems from the there freely roaming, numerous and heavily armed Outcasts as well as some other crimilnals. What is even more bewildering, criminals not from Bretonia but from Rheinland have taken over - beside the seemingly ubiquious Outcasts. Venerable Outpost Delta, once o proud Monument is now a mayor base of the Bundschuh. With its services run by the at least partially gouvermentally owned Bowex ! Another example as profit rules over conscience. Also the Red Hessians have established a large base, Lith Station. But what's truely going in and on with this station also remains for covered secret service investigations, as its ship dealer is obviously of Rheinland Military origin.
  
  Generally speaking, the only force countering all these criminals is the GMG. But that they do thoroughly as in every system they operate large and well armed fleets of fighter patrols. Compared to others their resources seem to be abundant. However, as they are still hostile to other civilians, esp. of Rheinland origin, their motives behind such extended operations remain unknown.
  
  
  Alien activities
  
  Even though in all systems of the survey still active, self-reproductive Nomads depots can be found, none of their ships seems to appear. The one big exception is Freeport 7. Here they not only strongly defend such depots, they appear in great numbers everywhere in this system, beeing a dangerous threat. However, there are numerous fighter patrols of all houses fighting them hard. At least in this case the agreements after the Nomads wars live up to their spirit. What causes the seemingly unchanged high interest of the Nomads in this system as well as their origin here or point of entry is still unveiled. It remains a considerable threat should they decide to break out as there are three possible routes to leave this system, to Sekar, Quantos with the direction to Rheinland space, Purian Lake, an almost closed system in possesion of a pirate clan and ofc X-3043.
  
  
  
  

• Part B : RESTRICTED for Clan-Leadership only
  
  
  
  Display Spoiler

  Notable other findings
  
  Quantos and Neophobos
  
  In both systems large asteroid fields are located, in Quantos (Astrobleme Field) not far from the Freeport 7 jumphole, in Neophopbos (Ptolemy Field) around the jumpgate, that have some intriguing similarities. Large enough to be the remnants of a planet. Not only almost equal in appearance, mineral structures and compositions they are very rich source of alien - Nomads as well as Dom'Kavash - artifacts. With the ban on these still active a considerable, possible hot spot for smugglers activities. And as - at least in Neophobos - these fields are still energetically active (radiation) their time of origin - or of the destruction of the planet they originated from must be very recent, recent enough to happen during the Nomads wars. What or who was the cause of their destruction has to be discovered yet. But I doubt, that Dom'Kavash will reveal any information on that to the contacts the Order has established with them.
  
  Nephele
  
  Though due to the heavy criminal activities in this system not truly a futuristic hot spot, the wreck of the Coalition Sleepership CNS Stalin is well known between pilots roaming the new, so-called "X-systems". Seemingly not many have taken metallurgical scans on it. Otherwise they could have discovered, that many of the man-made debris of possible former stations and depots in this system, that can be found esp. in the clouded asteroid fields are of the same if not identical composition of materials not to be found in Sirius, but that must have originated from Sol. Furthermore especially in the southern and western ice clouds (Apollo_ and Cupid Field) very large ice asteroids of strange and partially almost too regular shapes can be found, composed of super-compressed water ice with trace of rare elements in an almost meta-crystaline distribution. This unnaturally can be revealed only by the most thorough and educated analysing sequences. Even though the automated restriction warning seemingly set by the Order is active, due to the complete lack of enforcement in this system it might be only a question of time, that others reproduce this findings and look too deep into them and for their possible makers.
  
  These informations might or might not be passed on to to The Order High-Command.
  
  Further usage of this information for eventually taken action left to the discretion of the Commissioner.
  
  
  
  Filed with SpO Department, |TSH| Main bureau, Ice Palace Station, Interims-Base at Stardate 24.5.2015.13.57
  
  
  Responsible officer : Superintendent APE
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  APE out

This thread will serve as a historical record for the activities and missions the members of our clan have fullfilled on the endeavor to follow their hearts and consience to make this universe a better place to live in.

Signed by : Superintendant APE

@mikezero try using a download manager like DownThemAll for FireFox or similar. There are some available for all kinds of browsers. They RLY speed up yout downloads .

btw : WB M8

...maybe a stupid question : you 'tested' it on other fighter crafts ? ... or on someting else ?

(has to be cross-checked if someone else makes the same experience ...)

@denne ... do you have an audio file for that welsh town-name ??