make a new engine with a higher force for an upgrade.

QuEsTiOn AsKeR
Last Hope MOD

so buy a new engine you say. do you have to sell the old one?

I was looking for something that would just add a little speed to the existing engine when you brought it.

Also how do u make engines buyable?

No yoiu eject the engine in space.

now with buying them you should know how to do that. Just make a good for them.

QuEsTiOn AsKeR
Last Hope MOD

Umm...Can you eject engines in space?...Don't think so...I don't think FL allows you to jettison attached equipment...Also, how would you get back to dock without an engine?

The engine that you eject would be the one that is unhooked, you would have the engine you buy on your ship.
So it isn't equipped.

QuEsTiOn AsKeR
Last Hope MOD

Once I did the same but when I had installed the other enging I couldn´t öaunch anymore.

Or you could just save that engine untill you buy another ship and get credits for it that way, I have done this before.

"All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

And you would use your thrusters to get back as they are totally independant of the engines

isn't the problem with this that you can equip two engines on some ships and engine kill becomes a speed hack?

If you make the reverse_fraction I think to much, then when you have two engines on, when you hit x it goes like 999 backwards and there is something else that when you hit z it goes 999 forward.
But I am not saying to buy an engine and have two, I am saying make a new engine add it to the goods so you can buy it on the market and then you can hook up the engine you bought, you can't sell engines, you can on;y eject them in space.

QuEsTiOn AsKeR
Last Hope MOD

Edited by - Question Asker2044 on 2/18/2006 12:16:46 AM

I'm not sure of your logic here question_asker...Freelancer doesn't let you eject equipped engines in space...When you buy an engine, it is unequipped, you cannot unequip or sell an equipped engine...You also cannot eject an equipped piece of equipment...I don't understand what you're saying...To someone who has been modding Freelancer for over 2 and a half years, your logic makes absolutely no sense.

Para you are correct in that you can't jetison an equiped item, but an unequiped item is a different story.

There are several mods that allow you to buy and equip a new engine. You start by creating a goods entrys for every engine in Engine_Good.ini, this allows the engines to appear in your inventory. Add the goods entrys to the base of your choice and go and see the Equipment Dealer to buy a new engine. Unequip the old one and equip the new one and then launch, you can now jetison the old unequiped engine and give your self some target practice.

You can only sell engines if your running with a somewhat illegal EXE hack, but theres no point in doing any of this, unless you've done a lot of changes to the engines to allow different speeds.

**shuffles of with a new headache**

If you wouldn' mind an outside question, if you could unequip an enigine, Why would you want to eject it into space? Why not trade it in? Ejectinging it is pointless.

i was never talking about equipped equipment, its not hooked. It's a loose item, means it is not on the ship, not active, no moola, no juice, no power, not going to run on the ship at all. Like a missile in your cargo hold, a gun in your cargo hold it's not equiped.

But, you can't sell the engine, can't sell, give away, trade, but you can eject it into space to clear up space in the cargo hold.

I am saying, You make a new engine........you add it to the good.....Hey it's in the market now at the dealer..what do ya know.

Ok, you buy the engine, the one you buy won't be on your ship, but you unhook your frist one and equip the second one that you bought.
Bingo, you have now a new engine on your ship.

But wait.....the one you had before is still there...you can't sell it becuase FL hates you and wants to make life harder.......well you go into space and eject it into space, popit out, throw it to the stars.

That's what I meant and it's 100% possible.


Yes, there are a few mods that edit the EXE file to allow you to sell your engine, I am pretty sure it's freelimits mod.




QuEsTiOn AsKeR
Last Hope MOD

Edit: Owww...The shouting hurts my EARS!!!

Edited by - parabolix on 2/18/2006 10:54:09 PM