making just you and ur friend allied with them is easy.
edit mpnewcharacter.fl (its inthe exe folder, notepad will do the job)
you will see the stuff that is set up for new characters in MP.
the list of the reputations is selfexplaining.
-1 is red (hostile), 0 is neutral and +1 is friendly/allied.
this is just the startin setup though, not how things behave when you kill ships.
that is defined in faction_prop.ini.
pretty selfexplaining
you can find a list for all the nicknames of th factions and who they really are somewhere on the boards here or inthe downloads, i donno exactly but its somewhere here.
if you want to set up different affiliations of faction towards each other - for the NPCs, for example make the rogues allied with the navy (for whatever reasons, doh), thats all in initialworld.ini.
ah, one more thing.
if you never modded before, download the Freelancer SDK 1.3. its inthe download section. you will be able to edit the ini files from that straight away, without the decompressing work.
i hope this was understandable,
Fjord
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