Posts by Geronimo

The server was brilliant up until about a week ago, everything was working as best as I have seen it in all the time I have been here. Very few crashes and everything worked fine. Now the server has become unplayable. Missiles and cds just fly off into space as if no target has been selected. The server crashes every few minutes. If there is no way of knowing who or what is responsible, we have a serious problem to solve.Are we sure it is not a server problem? I find that portal itself is not responding as it normally does; links slow or failing to open. The portal itself, slow or failing to open. I have checked my internet explorer and other sites are fine.

OK I have got it all wrong, they way I read it made me believe that there was no escape no matter what you did. That is why I asked the questions. Your latest reply is the assurance I was looking for, thank you for this.

Hey, hold the phone. I ask a few simple questions base on the info here, just to try and understand the new role play. Based on the answers recieved, I made further comment. No, I am not afraid of losing credits, I have given away billions since I have been here. I am concerned about what appears to be a situation where you have no choice but to lose credits. A situation where, like it on not, if you were ask for payment you had no way of avoiding it and that payment could be massive. I realise that it is ‘Work in Progress’ but I was making comments on what I had read and understood the situation to be. Noone has said I have got it all wrong. At least I cannot be accused of not speaking up when I had the chance and yes nobody is forcing me play here.

OK so it will be on a first come first served basis, no problem with that and of course I understand that a bounty can only be collect once. However, I do not understand how you can avoid paying fines/taxes no matter what you do. If you kill the player who was making the request, they will merely reinstate their request until their demands are satisfied, which to me is totally ridiculous, especially in view of the large sums involved. If you kill the player, then that should be the end of it for at least 2 hours. I may have misunderstood, but if you escape by legitimate means, you will still lose the credits. So how can you avoid paying taxes/fines, once a request has been made? If the answer is that you can’t, then I find this totally illogical. Surely, if you are skilled enough to kill your opponent or clever enough to outwit him, then that should be the end of the matter. Freighters will have little or no chance of stopping their hard earned credits being removed; giving them no incentive to continue as there will not be any point. A big hole in the role play situation with no traders, it is hard enough at the moment, I think that this will kill it stone dead. I appreciate what is trying to be achieved here, but I do not think this has been thought through enough, it appears to me to be a licence to print money, especially for pirates. The amount of taxes and fines to me is far to excessive because no matter how skilled you are or how clever you are, you will lose mega credits and I see little incentive to play.

If i am going to be losing or gaining credits, I do not expect a solution to all eventualities but do expect to understand the proposals and their effects in what are very common situations. Surely these are simple senarios and there should be at least an explanation or clarification for them. I would not expect a new role play format to take effect without these things being thought through. Often two or more mercenaries are chasing the same bounthy in the same system at the same time. The same applies to police and pirates demanding taxes or iines from each other. Having a proposal for a one on one senario is just wishful thinking. I do not expect an answer to these questions now, but they will have to be addressed at some stage. Even with the one on one situation, there have to answers to the points I have made in order to even start to make this all work. It maybe that I have completely missunderstood what is trying to be achieved, in which case just ignore me, I was only trying to be objective in a desire to ensure that if these proposal are introduce they actually work and do not cause unecessary problems and arguments.

No... What ifs under the proposed new role play for v2.0

What happens when there are several pirates and or police in the system all demanding payment? Do you have to pay/kill /escape from them all?

It is an option to kill the player demanding the fine/tax; having killed the pirate/police offecer, when can the player ask for payment again? At present if you kill the player, they just keep demanding payment.

It is not only you... read the previous post.

Has the server been removed, is there a technical problem or do I have a problem? I cannot see the server listed.

There appears to be a problem with the server. Which appears to be the same as has been referred to above. Players are unable to log on to the server because the
server name keeps changing. It toggles between 24/7 Crossfire Roleplay and Crossfire
2.0 Dev Build. The latter needing a password to log on. I too have noticed this before and have tried again later, but this could be stopping new players joining or just giving up.

I WAS followed I got to X before he did. He did attack me first! What is this... I do NOT act out of RP. Michael if you were there and if this happened as you say it did, why do you not raise the subject then? If I get abusive messages I ignore them. As has happened here it only leads to more problems. Why did he not respond when I asked him why he attacked me? As I said before this is crazy, what the hell is this all about? I have played this MOD for 8 or 9 years now and have never been accused of acting out of RP. I am extremely annoyed about this whole affair which I believe has been completely distorted. I am sorry Michael but you have got this completely wrong from a player who did not like having his bounty taken and that is the simple truth. You have taken one persons account of what happened without checking the facts or getting the other side of the story.

What!!! This is pure fiction! I collected the bounty perfectly within the rules. I then received messages complaining that I had acted in a cowardly fashion which I ignored, only to received further abusive messages. I therefore left the area and went to X. This character followed me there and attacked me; I did not attack him. I assumed this was in retaliation for me collecting a bounty. I defended myself as I am entitled to do within the rules. I do not attack players out of RP and there was nothing out of RP on this occasion. This is crazy we a playing a game, posts like this only make OP want to close the whole thing down. Grow up M8 and stop throwing your toys out of your pram.

Yep, I had the same problem; you are authorised to dock but the train floats aimlessly around. I tried different approaches but nothing seemed to work. After half an hour of trying, I gave up. It seems that the container, attached to the station, will not allow the ship to dock.

I think that I will be walking on mars and pigs will fly before anyone gets this medal.

The problem is the same for me. It might be someone is online with corrupt client files, preventing others from joining. A quick reboot might help.

I docked at Planet Pittsburg and loaded 500 classified artifact reports, 500 h-fuel, and 500 light arms. Flew to Fort Bush and the H-Fuel had dissappeared. Sold the bmg and light arms and undocked and the h-fuel was in my hold. I docked again and it had dissappeared again. Flew on to Manhattan and docked and the h-fuel was back and I sold it. Weird or not?

I tried this 3 times with 2 characters it happens all the time.

Many thanks it is working now. Perhaps too many players were trying to access the download.

Sorry but I am confused. I tried starting Freelancer and the launcher loaded about 35 files and I launched crossfire in the normal way. The program crashed and since then I have been unable to start freelancer. Is this a completely new download? I have clicked on the download links and can only see 1.81. If it is not a completely new download, then is there a problem?