As of today Monkey Universe has swityched to the new and improved 1.85 mod.
Download available at the downloadspage
www.monkeyuniverse.be and soon available here at lancers...
For server stability we did a player wipe BUT all 1.84 players get 10 % of the cash they owned back from the MP's (monkey police = server police)
Here is what we got to offer and the details of the mod:
"Monkey Universe 1.85"
by the Monkey Universe Modding Team
A small grain of sand in the vast universe...nothing special, just a cluster of stars and some nebulas...just one out of millions of similar places...
But it was chosen by the Monkey god! The Sirius Sector! A new home for mankind and just interesting enough for our story.
The first Nomad war is over for several years and people in the colonies forgot about the threat of the Nomads. The governments of the four houses went back to their business and rebuilt what was destroyed in the war. It seems to be a time of peace and economic growth again. But Sirius is in danger! The Nomads are not dead, but even more powerful than before. Pilots disappearing, stations that are attacked out of nowhere, single ships of unknown origin and material that are spotted all over the colonies! Mankind is at war once again! The Nomads are back, stronger and more dangerous than before. They already control several systems and operate all over the colonies. However, this time mankind has an ally. The Monkeys from Planet Primus share our aim to destroy the Nomads! They have the blessings of the Monkey God and superior knowledge and technology. But the Nomads are strong and victory is still far away.
Enter a new story in the world of Freelancer...
- Join the Monkeys, the Robots and the Order and fight against the enemy of mankind. Drive the Nomads out of Sirius!
- Be a Freelancer, a trader, a fighter or a pirate!
- Visit a Nomad base and let them take you over. Be one of the superior beings and annihilate the weak!
- Join a clan and fight for your aims! Get the right to land on one of the Clan bases to buy exclusive clan ships and equipment!
- Take part in many RP-Events and earn money by finding the Great Banana!
Simply EXPERIENCE FREELANCER THE "MONKEY WAY"!!!
The main aim of this mod is not to change the entire Freelancer universe, but to add some parts to the game to make it more interesting.
We also changed some of the original features to make the game more challenging. As we wanted to keep the original Freelancer feeling we
tried to add things that really fit in the Freelancer universe. However these are our ideas of a "better" Freelancer and you may
not like them.
FEATURES:
- 3 new factions (Monkeys, Robots, Mercenaries) and two story-only factions fully integrated (Order, Nomads). These five factions have their own systems, bases, ships and equipment. They fight each other and tell their interesting history in custom rumors, custom news and infocards
- 26 totally new ships (3 LFs, 1 HF, 13 VHFs, 2 Frs, 3 Capitals, 4 Clanships) and 5 original FL ships made flyable (CSV, Adv. CSV, Starblazer, Juni's Defender, Red Dragon). These ships belong to different factions and are well balanced. This should provide some variety in space
- 5 totally new systems (4 Nomadworld systems, in which the new factions are fighting each other and 1 Clan system) and all the story-only systems (7) were reworked and made accessable. All these systems are fully with bases, tradelanes, nebulas, asteroid fields, missions, encounters, wrecks and some of them with some specialties.
- New commodity market with 46 new commodities 25 of them contraband). Many new profitable traderoutes for traders and smugglers. Beware, the police and Navy scan you for contraband more often and also some other factions will do this now. The cargospace of all freighters were increased to make trading even more profitable, but beware it is also more dangerous! (MANY THANKS TO SPASTICFROG, who spend lots of time to rework the whole market for good traderoutes!!!)
- Pilots added to the loadouts of every ship. Every destroyed NPC-ship leaves a pilot, which you can sell for much money.
- New equipment and weapons added to the game. Shield-Weapon relations reworked
- Clan stuff: A Clansystem, with Clanbases. On these bases you can buy exclusive Clanships (exclusive equipment in the future
- NPCs are more challenging. Their shields regenerate, their loadouts were improved (stronger weapons, cruisedisruptors, etc.) and they use Nanobots and Shieldbatteries. Also their maneuovering capabilities were improved and they use Torpedoes against Capitalships.
- Added a new Hyperlane for the Nomads. This is an improved Nomad version of the tradelane
- Scanners, Tractor Beams and Armor Upgrades are buyable all over Sirius. Several new thrusters were also added.
- Different Speeds and cruise-charge-times for the different shipclasses (LFs: 120 mph, 3 sec; HFs: 100 mph, 4 sec; VHFs: 90 mph, 5 sec; Frs: 80 mph, 6 sec)
- Added several logical jumpholes to the mod (e.g.: Magellan --> Omega 3) and the jumptunnels have different colors (Liberty = Blue, Bretonia = Brown, Kusari = Red, Rheinland = Green, Independent Worlds = Yellow, Omicron Alpha and Gamma = Black, Nomad Worlds = Pink)
- New Menu Backgrounds in the main menu
- Added Capitalship encounters in the house systems and some pirate systems. Other encounters reworked
- Changed Trents Look
- Cruisespeed is now 450 mph
- Prices of the ships increased
- New sounds and new music added and also some new weapon graphics added
- All original FL bugs were fixed and the Unofficial Freelancer SP Patch 1.4 (by Buck Danny) was added
- Randommissions are payed better now and you get more often station/battleship destroy missions (also against the Nomads)
- You start neutral to everyone (only enemy are the Nomads) and with 120,000 credits
- Levels up to 90 in MP
- Added some bases from the sponsorship program (look on the website for more about this program)
You found a bug, or you want to ask something? Then go visit our site
www.monkeyuniverse.be or the Mod Announcement Forum on Lancersreactor. There is a thread called Monkey Universe 1.85, where you can tell us this. Please tell us also what you think of our ideas for the next version. You got an own idea. Write it down there, but think about if it fits to the main aim of the mod, which is described at the top of this file. Thanks!
VERSION HISTORY:
Version 1.85:
- Parts of the Monkey Universe 1.84 code were removed, others were reworked
- A new faction, the Mercenaries, who are normally taking missions from everyone against everyone. Their only real enemies are the Nomads and they are therefore allied with the Monkeys, the Robots and the Order.
- All Story-only systems were reworked
- The Nomads now use Hyperlanes in Nomadia (for now this is implemented on trial-basis)
- Some new bases from the sponsorshipprogram were added
- A Clansystem, with four clanbases was added (one for lawful, unlawful, trader and mercenary clans). These bases are owned by the new clanfactions, which are enemies to every player except of the clan players of the specific clan.
- 15 new ships for different factions were added (2 Freighters, 1 LF, 1 HF and 11 VHFs)
- Some new music was added
Fixed Bugs and Mistakes:
- Some small bugs in mbases.ini where fixed
- Other small bugs (like spelling mistakes) were fixed and many console errors in MP were solved
Remaining Bugs:
- Nomad capitalships will sometimes dissappear as if they were cloaking, although they do not have a cloak. This will only happen, if you are far away from the ships. As far as I know, this problem could not be solved by anyone until now. But it is very rare.
- The jumptunnel of the jumphole to the Dyson Sphere System is not working totally right. At the beginning of the jump, you are flying outside the tunnel.
- If you set the best path in Canada (Clan system) from north to south or from south to north, you get only one waypoint and the setting does not use the tradelanes. This appears, if the path crosses the middle horizontal axis of the system.
"The Monkeys 1.18":
- Added the Tradelane Disruptors made by kaegogoi. There are two versions: one legal and one illegal version. They are buyable on the house planets, research stations and on pirate bases. Be careful, the police and the Navy of the four houses will scan you for the illegal version and you can't drop a weapon!
- Added all the Improvements of the unofficial Freelancer SP Patch 1.4, which corrects many small bugs in FL (e.g.: unknown objects, or jumpholes not displayed on the Navmap). Many thanks to Buck Danny for this great package!
- Nomad shields are now an own shield class (like Graviton, Positron and Molecular). All the normal weapons, such as Lasers, Tachyons, etc. do less damage to these Nomad Pulsar shields.
- The weapons of the Monkeys and the Robots have their own characteristics now. Monkey weapons have the characteristics of the colony weapons, except of doing much damage to Nomad Pulsar shields. Robot weapons do more damage to all the normal shields and less damage to Nomad shields.
- Added a new Nomad VHF, the Nomad Mystere. It is stronger than the Valkyrie N1, but therefore has a smaller cargospace and a slow speed.
- Added a new home system for the Robots. It has four bases, nebulas, tradelanes, wrecks, etc..
- Changed the damage done by the capitalship weapons of the four houses. Now it is really challenging to fight battleships with Light or Heavy Fighters (The story battleships still have the same weak weapons, so that it is not impossible to do the missions).
- Added two flyable capitalships. A Monkey and a Robot Destroyer. These ships are sold on the capitals of the two factions. They are very strong, but therefore also very expensive.
- You now sometimes get missions from the monkeys, the robots and the order, in which you have to destroy Nomad Battleships and weapon platforms.
- Added a Liberty Gunboat (model from Excelcia Mod), which can be seen in Liberty space and around Planet Malta.
- Added Pilots for every faction. If you kill an enemy, the pilot will now eject, so that you can tractor in his lifepod and sell it on a base. Every faction got it's own pilots and there are also special pilots for capitalships. If you want to make as much profit as possible, try to think logically. An Outcast pilot will bring you a high reward, if you sell him to the Outcasts (best Planet Malta), the Corsairs (they are the enemies of the Outcasts), or the Liberty Navy. If you sell him to the Rheinland Military you will not get such a high reward.
- Added 47 new commodities to the game. 25 of these commodities are contraband, so that smuggling is now much more interesting. Be careful, the Navy and some pirates scan you more often and the Bounty Hunters also scan for some contraband.
- I added a new projectile for the Nomad VHF Turret. This pink beam fits better than the green Rheinland beam.
Fixes from version 1.1:
- The class seven hardpoints of the guardian were misplaced. Now two of them are on the wings and one is on top of the ship.
- Some of the new ships with custom models disappeared, when the center was out of screen. I fixed this with FL ModelTool (Many thanks to Anton!).
- The new shields had the hit effects of positron shields, although they are Graviton shields. I fixed this, so that they have the hit effects of Graviton shields (Only the Nomad shield has the positron effects, because it is a Pulsar shield. Sorry new effects for this new shield type are impossible to do, at least for me).
- Changed the color of the Heavy Molecular Tractor Beam from yellow to red. I think this looks better.
- The Conqueror has now two torpedo/cruisedisruptor hardpoints to make it a better alternative to the Anubis MK2.
- The mission consigners of the Monkeys and the Robots are now also Monkeys and Robots.
- The names of the Shipdealer and the Commoditydealer on the Nomad outpost were mixed up. Now they have the right names.
- Some of the system lights in the new systems were missing or misplaced and the second sun in Unknown 2 had no death zone. Now, every sun has a light source and a death zone.
- The Nomad Cruise-Disruptor Launcher and the Nomad Torpedo Launcher had no weapon models. Now they have.
- I finally managed to make the Nomad outpost show up in the trade list. Now every of the new stations will show up in the trade list of a commodity.
- All NPCs carry less nanobots and shieldbatteries. In the last version the fights took very long and could be boring after some time. Now they should be shorter, but still challenging. Normally the NPCs now have bats/bots to rebuild their whole shield two times (before 3-4 times) and the hull 1-2 times (before 3-5 times). Freighters still have more bots/bats than other ships, due to their lack of mobility and their size (easy to hit). Also the Nomads, the Robots and the Monkeys got a bit more bots and bats than the pilots of other factions (but still less than before). I hope this makes the game more fun and maybe a bit easier, but still challenging.
- There were some problems with the sur file of the Anubis MK2. I fixed this with a new sur file.
- Several small bugs and one major bug (Leeds system not accessible) from the first release of version 1.18 were fixed.
Version 1.1:
- Added two new factions, The Monkeys and The Robots with their bases in the bottom Unknown system. Each of them with several new ships (LF, VHF, FR), new equipment (weapons, thrusters, shields, etc.), rumors, news, etc (The history of the Monkeys and the Robots may be interesting for you, if you want to know more about the Nomads. However these are only my own ideas). Together with the Order they fight the Nomads (There are many encounters, patrols and trade paths of the Monkeys and the Robots in the Nomad 1 system, in the bottom Unknown system and in Omicron Gamma).
- The Order and the Nomads are now also showing up after you completed the story. Battleship Osiris was moved to the top Unknown system and there is also a new Nomad system with a Nomad base and a Monkey base (reach it from the Unknown systems). The Order and the Nomads both got a new VHF and their own new equipment, etc. (The Order and the Nomads also have many encounters, even with capitalships).
- The NPCs are now more challenging, because their loadouts were improved (better equipment, etc.) and there shields now regenerate. They also use nanobots and shieldbatteries. The most challenging pilots are the Monkeys and the Robots.
- Added several new ships: - The CSV and the Advanced CSV, as fast Freighters for pirates
- The Defender, which Juni flies during the story, as a new Liberty Heavy Fighter
- The Red Dragon, which is flown by the Blood Dragons, as an improved version of the Kusari Dragon
- The missing Starblazer Civilian Light Fighter
- Added some new equipment, buyable all over Sirius. Scanners (3), Tractor Beams (2) and Armor Upgrades (5).
- The different shipclasses have now different speeds and cruise charge times:
- Light Fighters (120 mph; 3 sec)
- Heavy Fighters (100 mph; 4 sec)
- Very Heavy Fighters (90 mph; 5 sec)
- Freighters (80 mph; 6 sec)
- Pirate and Bounty Hunter ships have faster engines (normally 10 mph more)
- The Monkey, Robot and Nomad ships are also faster than other ships of their class
- The two different CSVs and the Starblazer are also faster than other ships of their class
- Added some logical jumpholes in likely positions (e.g.: Magellan --> Omega 3). The jumptunnels now have different colors (Liberty = Blue; Bretonia = Brown; Kusari = Red; Rheinland = Green; Independent Worlds = Yellow; Ommicron Gamma and Alpha = black; Unknown systems = Pink)
- I changed two of the Intros in the Main Menu and enabled the hidden waterworld intro. There is also some new music for the intros and the Unknown systems.
- Added Missions against the Nomads (much more than in version 1.0).
- Added Capitalship Encounters in the house systems and in some pirates systems.
- Changed Trents look.
- The Monkeys and the Robots are now also firing torpedoes on the Nomad capitalships.
- Cruisespeed is now 450 mph (Or whatever the unit is).
- All ships cost more.
- When you start a new Multiplayer game you are neutral to everyone except of the Monkeys, the Robots, the Order and the Nomads.
- All shields (NPC and player) are now stronger.
- Some of the Nomad VHFs fire Nomad torpedoes on their enemies.
- The Piranha, the CSV and the Banshee are now buyable during the story to have more ships to choose from.
- Added new news pictures for the new factions.
- Increased the cargospace of all freighters.
- Increased the powerdrain of all thrusters and lowered the speed of the normal version, the deluxe version and the heavy version.
Fixes from version 1.0:
- The player's ship now really has enginetrails (sorry forgot that for the most ships).
- The names of the Monkeys, the Robots, the Order and the Nomads now appear in Mission texts. MANY THANKS FOR THIS TO CHIPS!!!
- Edited and fixed some infocards.
- Changed some sounds and graphics (Weapons).
- Battleship Osiris will now also show up in the tradelist.
- The torpedoes on the Anubis MK2 can now only fire forward.
Shipmodels:
"Amun" Monkey Destroyer (original name: Phoenix Battle Cruiser) - Baene
"Thoth" Monkey Freighter (original name: Devestator) - Baene
"Mystere" Nomad VHF (original name: Demon) - Baene
"Crusher" Robot Destroyer (original name: Pantheon Battle Cruiser) - Baene
"Conqueror" Robot VHF (original name: Outrider) - Baene
"Discoverer" Robot LF (original name: Interloper) - Baene
"Demon" Nomad VHF (original name: Demon MK2) - Baene
"Nephthys" Order VHF (original name: Nephthys) - Baene
"Avenger" Mercenary VHF (original name: Crusher) - Baene
"Seething Fury" Mercenary VHF (original name: Seething Fury) - Baene
"Privateer" Mercenary VHF (original name: XR 844) - Baene
"Hydra MK2" Clan VHF (original name: Hydra MK3) - Baene
"Praetorian" Clan VHF (original name: Praetorian) - Baene
"Spectre" Clan VHF (original name: Spectre) - Baene
"Conquistador" Corsair VHF (original name: Loki) - Baene
"Swordfish" Outcast VHF (original name: Silverfish 2) - Baene
"Condor" Interspace Freighter (original name: OR
- Baene
Liberty Guboat - )v(aster
"Mustang" Clan Freighter (original name: Mustang) - Samurai Studios
"Pegasus" Xeno LF - APS Studios
"Griffin" Xeno HF - APS Studios
"Hydra" Xeno VHF - APS Studios
Credits:
- MANY, MANY Thanks to King Lin, Vader, Azar, Powerdoll, Dreyus, Azrael, Omicron Explorer, J.J. and some others, who posted their ideas in the Monkey 1.1 thread and helped me all the time. They also did not get angry that I'm so slow in modding! Without you many of this would not have been made! THANKS
- Many thanks to gestoord, Ice, >SFG<C71shadow for their help with the development, testing and bugfixing of the mod!
- Many thanks to SpasticFrog, for reworking the whole commoditymarket. This was so much work, but he did it all alone!!!
- Thanks to the Monkey Universe Community, who helped alot with their ideas, suggestions, reports and also some modding related things!
- Thanks to several people from the Monkey Universe Community, who wrote new rumors and news for the mod!
- Many, many thanks to Baene for the permission to use his shipmodels. He does really a great job and in my opinion most of his ships totally fit in the Freelancer Universe. Keep on the good work!
- Thanks to player, who created several new textures for ships in the mod. They look great man!
- Thanks to Reynen, giskard, Nephilim, ThresholdRPG, blackfire, Milkshape, Chips, Michael Dan and some others for their great Tutorials or mods. I did not copy anything from them, but their mods or tutorials helped me a lot!
- Thanks to Samurai Studios for the permission to use some of their shipmodels!
- Thanks to APS Studios for the permission to use their shipmodels!
- Thanks to IGx89 for his great tool FLMM!
- Thanks to Dixi for his great tool FLEd-ids that i used many times!
- Thanks to Louva-Deus for the FL SDK!
- Thanks to tyco for his mod "The Order Needs You"! I used some parts of your rumor and news texts, because I'm a german and my english is not as good as yours!
- Thanks to Chris for his mod "Nomad Sound Mod"! I used your cool new weapon sounds for the mod!
- Thanks to Osprey for his great Shipicon Tutorial. Without this I've not been able to make the new icons for some ships!
- Thanks to Chips, BlazeMe, Anton, LordFjord, Strail, RimShot, Mephistopheles, Silvik, Buck Danny, Mace 166 and I think some others. They helped me many times with my stupid questions in the TLR forums
- Thanks to Free Spirit, for the permission to use his model of the Moldy Crow (A really nice model, which I first used for the Robot VHF. But as it is a Starwars ship, which everyone knows, I decided to use Baene's models, which totally fit in the Freelancer universe. Thanks, anyway)!
- Thanks to black_lightning for helping me with some questions about making the two new hardpoints on the outrider model!
- Thanks to Akkaraju for his new menu intro (Osiris Menu Addon). I changed it a bit, but the major part is his work!
- Thanks to kaegogi for his tradelanedisruptors and some commodities. I changed some of the icons, but also used some of his icons.
- Thanks to Buck Danny for the FL Unofficial SP Patch 1.4.
- Thanks to Lord Fjord and )v(aster for the permission to use the model of the Liberty Gunboat from the Excelcia Mod.
- Thanks to Chips and Pathfinder Studios for the permission to use some of their commodities and icons (Pilots).
- Thanks to Microsoft and especially Digital Anvil for this great game!
- Thanks to lancersreactor.com for the best Freelancer site and great support for modders!
- Thanks to SubAtomicGlue for the awesome music tracks we used in the new systems (
http://www.subatomicglue.com )
Disclaimer: All rights from Freelancer are reserved by Microsoft Corporation.
BUT NOW: "Freelancer A 1-1, you are ready to launch. Good luck up there and may the Monkey god be with you!"
Get the mod and enjoy
Gestoord
Monkey Universe server admin
Info on MONKEY UNIVERSE server
Sat Nov 26, 2005 2:02 am