For 1, yes mods do this. Simply search for the good one, or make it yourself (Look inton engine_equip.ini and play with I think max_force values).

For 2 and 3, I think it's much more of a World of Wacraft or Anarchy Online type of thing you want.

2 : Missions on FL are these (I might miss one) :
-Ship killing.
-Base killing.
-Individual killing.
-Cargo destruction.
-Individual capture.
Mods added : -Battleship killing.

3 : Well I'd say you cannot get INVOLVED in a faction, but you can still wear its tag.

3. and its costume also if you're wearing the factions tag that's as involved as you can really get,since ships and weapons aren't very restricted by reputation in vanilla FL(you should have to BE a corsair to get a corsair ship and weapon,wot?).yeah the ships all going roughly the same speed sucks,and i feel they could have gone a little faster & relied less on thrusters...thrusters just seem like they burn too long & have too much force.also the station-destroying missions should be the best paying & most engaging - instead they are the easiest/worst paying missions.also stations should be friggin SOLID,not destroyed with three starkillers.but meh,mods fix all this stuff

as far as fixing everything but the reputation system and adding custom costumes i would say i recommend Evolutions 1.28(soon to be 1.29) - it has battleship missions which you can do in a battleship, i wouldn't recommend a fighter unless you're reeal good , and very challenging fighter missions that have a nicely scaled difficulty that makes ship upgrading smooth so you don't have problems getting out of a startflier and eventually trading up to a V/SHF - epsilon & void mods i'm looking at you with your unbeatable lvl 1 missions and endless NPC nanos >:0


Edited by - Cold_Void on 5/30/2005 4:38:36 PM

Here here about void! if you're not in a clan (this is mp, mind) you're SOL. Good luck. Get a freighter.

Playing Evo 1.28 now SP.. Getting stuck in the first dang mission cause it's taking me too long to kill the rouges and Beta 4 keeps dieing... Put I suppose practice makes perfect.

Other than that it's nice. That starflier is barely controllable! Maybe I should adjust my mouse sensitivity.