I don't know how many would agree with me, but I've got to hand it to Victor (www.bobway.com) for producing what I personally consider to be the best stand alone freelancer mod on the net. It let's you fly almost any ship in the game, within a far more balanced universe where ships of each class (LF, HF, etc.) are made more or less equivilent (while exhibiting ~some~ of their original strengths and weaknesses) so that you may fly the ship you like rather than just the one which can carry the best guns. Trade ships are much tougher as well (making pirating in the starflier realistically less feasible), with capital ships also making frequent appearances throughout random/open space (nothing like a trio of cruisers coming out of a disrupted tradelane to ruin your attack on a cargo train).

All in all, I would say that this mod has added a HELL of a lot to my freelancer experience both SP and online (www.bobway.com runs a server using this mod). These things considered, I would strongly encourage any of you who are interested to pick it up. The earlier version, 1.3, is available here on lancersreactor, though you will need 1.62 to play on bobway's (available there).

Cheers!

Eric