yup:
Alcatraz Depot
Buffalo Base
Curacao
Freeport 4
Houston
Ledien Base
LPS Sugarland
Mactan Base
Manhattan
Padua Base
Rochester Base


If you can't find that hacker, just launch to space and back

I have only completed the 2nd single player mission (2nd time round for the game) and want to get friendly with the rogues so I can fly the Dagger. I have docked undocked with Manhattan, Houston, LPI Sugarland many, many times and cannot get a bribe for the Rogues. Is anyone sure it's possible while early in single player. I want the Dagger now, not after I'm level 18.

It can take many, many tries to get a Rogue bribe in a place like Manhattan. Rochester is a more reliable option but in SP you can simply destroy the police depots near Manhattan. If the 8 pods of the police depots are not enough then continue with the DSE depots. One is right there beside the police depots and there are others near Baltimore Shipyard. If the Rogues are fully hostile then you need 8 police pods plus 5 DSE ones, if I remember correctly.

Demon1- Have you ever HEARD of a sticky?????? You can easily find your answer at the top of the spoiler fourm page


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Some people just live to tell other people to read the stickies, eh? Sad. Pathetic, really.

Others enjoy forums for the interaction and insight they share with other posters, and will gladly volunteer answers even if the question is "in the FAQ" as it were. It keeps the forums and community alive and kicking.

No honest question is a stupid question.

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Amen to that. There seem to be a few ***holes who have nothing better to do than picking on others. There are new players to this game all the time, and most of them play the game instead of lurking the forums just to see if there are someone to flame.

And they never come up with an answer, just the same old bull****. Lousy players, but great forumers, methinks.

Nukenin and tai-pan, I have to disagree.

There are fresh newbies every day - which is good since it keeps the community alive - and many of them do not read the FAQ or the stickies even though they could find many answers there. And so they post the same questions again, and again, and again, waiting hours for the answers to trundle in when a quick search of the forums or a glance at the topic list for the last ten days or a look into the sticky posts at the top of some forums would have gotten them plenty of answers in mere seconds. And so it is necessary to gently remind newcomers of these alternative sources, both because these sources can give better and more comprehensive answers quicker, and because it helps to reduce the noise level in the forums.

Another aspect is that the quality of threads about a certain topic is bound to decrease significantly the more often someone feels they have to make a new thread for it. The people who know the answers probably have participated in a dozen threads of the same topic already and are not very likely to chime in, so the newer threads tend to get more input from newbies who don't know much. Thus the posts tend to be of poorer value overall or even downright incorrect, and the information contained in the newer threads tends to be much less comprehensive than in earlier threads.

I also post reminders or even rebukes on occasion (although the ratio to other posts is probably 1:50) but I challenge you to take back the 'lousy pilot' unless you can prove in some way that you aren't.

Challenge me?? Are you out of your mind. This is a game, nothing else but a game for ppl to play around with. You are taking this too seriously.

You may challenge me if you like, it doesn't make any difference. Your reply to my posting proves my point.

But this is not a Freelancer thing, it's same old story in all forums. And there's nothing we/you/I can do about it. Not that I really care, I don't need any help to play this game. And I don't need this forum either.

Sherlog, there's nothing wrong with gently reminding posters of the stickied topics. But the post to which I replied, which read "Demon1- Have you ever HEARD of a sticky?????? You can easily find your answer at the top of the spoiler fourm page", is the sort of arrogant condescending rebuke I take issue with.

You actually took the time to respond to the original poster with an alternative to bribing that he may not have even thought of. That's the kind of response I enjoy seeing. As a forum lurker for the past couple weeks, I've come to expect nothing less than good info from you.

These newbie questions may spam the forum at times with their redundancy, but if someone's going to take the time to respond, they may as well answer the question (even if the answer is in form of "look at stickied topic X for the best answer to this" rather than just add to the spam with "read the stickies you idjit".

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tai-pan, yes, it is the same old story with all forums. But it happens that this particular forum is still a good place for discussion while many others have gone completely to seed already...

As regards the 'challenge' - please excuse my poor choice of words (English is not my native language). I was merely taking issue with your blanket accusation that the people who post 'reminders' do not contribute topical information ("And they never come up with an answer, just the same old bull****." and that they are "Lousy players, but great forumers".

Back to the topic: if you want to adjust your rep with a wad of credits instead of a few well-placed shots then buying Junkers bribe is good alternative to a Rogues bribe. A Junkers bribe is easier to get, less expensive, and it neutralizes much more criminal factions than a Rogues bribe. This is great for trading, by the way.

Trade routes are more exciting when you leave yourself some enemies to fight along the way, though.

My first post-campaign game had me trading my Anubis for a decked out Humpback, and while Kusari space was mostly benign and boring (due to the state of factions at the end of the campaign), it all changed when I was in Rheinland space. I'd lock on to the next jump gate or trade lane, hit the autopilot, then switch to turret mode for the inevitable Unioner Hawks swooping down on me.

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Well spoken Sherlog. And I'm sorry. You see, you are the last person I would address my posting to. I have read a lot of your articles from your campains, and I am really impressed with the fact that you finished in a Flier. I haven't done that, ---yet. Just the first time around in a Defender.

There is one thing, though. When refered to as a newbie, or noob, is it the game or this forum ? I know I am a newbie to the forum, i.e I read a lot and write a little. But that doesn't mean I am new to the game. And I believe the same goes for other noobs on the forum.

Nukenin and tai-pan, I truly appreciate your responses and I want to thank you for that display of sanity. If you had not spoken then this could easily have escalated if somebody spoiling for a flame had come across the discussion.

tai-pan, with 'newbies' I mostly meant people who are new to forums in general since all forums work basically in the same way. Many newcomers engage their brain before posting and so they are never noticed as n00bs, but on the other hand you also get people that still have the classic hallmarks of n00b even after participating for quite a while (e.g. choosing a topic like "Question for any who can answer" ).

Or a topic like "TITANZ R BEST!!!!11!"



I must say I usually read the brain-dead topics just out of morbid curiousity plus a desire to see posts that deserve some truly scathing rebukes.

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