What's this? Is there really no one interested in modding in some of the good old elite ships and systems into Freelancer?

Strange...

Tacka vet jag Elite[!

That is a kick ass idea!

Wonder if Braben would get touchy about his ships being nicked tho? Probably not, all the elite games are available for d/l from his site.
Other probs are number of gun mounts available - i dont remember more than front, rear and turret (poss left+right too?) Also you could equip and missiles you could afford to but and needed no specific launchers. Rebalance MOD might make that easier 'cause AFAIK the missiles mount in torpedo slot so no need to put extra gun mounts. Also Rebalance lets you upgrade armour, scanners etc by sacrificing cargo space which was a key elite idea.

Which ships to do tho? I'd say the Viper or VIper II has to be in there. You could argue the case for the Imperial Explorer/Cruiser but they're FFE only ships and i think that discredits them. Definitely a thargoid ship! The Boa or Anaconda for freighters? A sweet one would be the ship from Elite itself, all black with just white lines defining it. Guns would spoil the look tho but this could possible be worked around.

I'd say most of them! But first of all the classic cobra Mk III, the Krait, the Asp, the Panther Clipper, the Boa, Griffin Carrier, Adder oh there are just so many...

Myself I can't program a bouncing ball even, so I hope someone with talent hooks on to the Idea...

Tacka vet jag Elite[!

on Ian Bell's Elite site, there is an zip file with .3ds models of all the Elite original ships available for download. Just import in Milkshape, texture and add hardpoints, and export as cmp..

Should be easy to make an Elite ShipPack for those who are so inclined..

b. regards

Dutch63 (on the Boomtown #1 server)

You make it sound so easy...

But heck, I'll give it a try!

Thanx!

Tacka vet jag Elite[!