What I do to make money: Traderuns... a lot. I know, it's boring, but doing a few of the best and easiest. I'll give you one wich is a good one. it's fairly easy money because you don't need to struggle/bribe to get a criminal rep and the baddies you encounter are minimal right after the sp campaign.

1. Start off at Planet New Tokyo and buy Niobium. take the Niobium to The Ring. It's outside Planet New Berlin.
2. After that, go to Planet New Berlin and buy Diamonds and take them to Planet New Tokyo.

An alternate to that one is to buy Niobium at Planet Kyushu and to sell them at Leipzig in the Dresden system. From there go to Bautzen, also in Dresden and buy Diamonds and return to New Tokyo.

After a few runs, you should have a nice small fortune, especially with a freighter.

Then you need to know wich VHF you want: Eagle, Sabre or Titan.

Eagle is for sale at Freeport 9 in Omicron Theta.
Sabre is for sale at Planet Malta in Omicron Alpha. Be adviced, that's the Outcast homesystem!
Titan is for sale at Planet Crete in Omicron Gamma. Be adviced, That's the Corsair homesystem!

Once you get one of those, make money either by taking jobs from Outcasts at Malta, or Corsairs at Crete. Those are the best jobs. They pay up to 245k for a job and the loot you sell makes another 200k easilly.
You need to be on the good side (right side) of the neutral bar to be able to take missions from them.

That's a nice training and a way to get money.

And when you think you're up to it, take on some Nomads. They're in the Outcast and Corsair homesystems, near the unknown jumphole/i.

And for your last question, download some mods from the download section. Use Freelancer Mod Manager. Most mods (the recent ones) work with that program. it makes activation/deactivation of your mods a lot simpler.

Have fun!

Edited by - Nickless on 09-10-2003 00:13:27

Nah Nickless, mods are for wusses. All you have to do is get a titan( not a sabre ) and pump it up with two DIAMOND BACKS and two SLAMANCA MKIIs and a GUARDIAN CANNON and a...... well you get the picture. You can blow the hell out of any that you want if you keep your weapons class above level 8. Now again for all you power hungry noobs MODS ARE FOR WUSSES!(if you use them before you finish the story missions:> )

We are the borg, you will be assimilated, resitance is futile!

theborg said,

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(if you use them before you finish the story missions:> )

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I'm glad you said that, or I would be forced to twack you.

But I agree with Nickless, traiding is the way to go if you want alot of cash in a reletivaly short amount of time.

Life: No one gets out alive.

Edited by - RILMS on 09-10-2003 06:46:12

Go to Unknown systems in either gamma or alpha and hit those nomads. Tractor their dropped weapons and sell em at close to 150k a piece. Thats another good run. People buy around 4 for around 500k from me. Thats another quick and easy way to make money.

@tixor: That's in MP I guess, when you sell them to other players.
because when you sell them on a planet/base you only get 4k for it. At least if you play unmodded.


@Theborg: You mean the mods that make the game easier (cheats)? yes, then they're for wusses. Mods like Hostile Universe and The Next Generation are wuite good to try and absolutely NOT for wusses.

Thanks to all who provided such good advice. I've managed finally to get past Mission 11 but I don't like how I did it at all. Having only level 6 weapons, I simply lit up my cruise engines and flitted about uselessly avoiding all trouble and let poor Juni and King do it all. Oh, well . . . but seriously, anthing to get past the silly cartoons. The only thing I like about this game is the ability to act independent of stories, etc. and still interact with an interesting virtual universe.

If only someone would combine this sort of universe with a Web multiplayer aspect and allow folks to play whatever role they like, pilot, trader, pub owner, politician, etc.

Those who take the non-action roles would have strategic gaming in mind -- how to make more $ or amass more power than others. Those who wanted just the action aspect would have that.

The old internet based game of galaxy conquest (commercially represented presently by a most disappointing Master of Orion 3, and formerly by a most visually retarded Stars!) should be integrated with a game like this one.

Easy for me to say . . .

what are unknown systems?

Read my post...the first one

Amazing. Finished the silly cartoon missions (I think, at least, once you visit the Dyson Sphere and flush the Nomads down their loo you are done).

I then went to New Tokyo, bought freighter and loaded it with Niob and sold it at the Ring near New Berlin, then bought a bigger freighter and diamonds on the planet.

I amassed almost $3 million credits and did a bit of wreck looting and exploring.
I'd be careful of using the jump hole to New Berlin from the Sigma system -- those Red Hessians are right there and there are a lot of them.

I found some wrecks and now have two class 10 DIamonbacks and two class 10 Onyx thingees.

I then made my way to Crete, bribed my way into the good graces of the Corsairs and bought a Titan.

Since then, I cleaned up the 16 old fighters in their system, fought the Nomads and collected 4 Nomad cannons and 4 Nomad Blasters.

I'm going to keep all the class 10 weaponry and shift weapons as whims hit me. I guess the next thing to do is simply explore every other system I have yet to see and try to avoid making the Corsairs mad at me. I like their system very much visually and I'd like to return there to fight Nomads from time to time.

The Titan is a great ship, but it does not fly well enough for me. One is tempted to try an Eagle. I've already fought Sabres and they don't seem any better than the Titan as far as maneuverability goes.

So far the ship I liked the best was the Barracuda, but it was too fragile (those wings are totally superfluous) and you cannot mount the right weapons.

Why can't I get a custom job built? That's a feature they should consider if ever a new version of this of a successor game is done.

I'd build a ship very much like the Nomad -- no external appurtenances to break off -- but build it almost like a flying cube or sphere so one could make the ship itself into a kind of turret to bring weapons to bear.

Space ships do NOT need to look like fighter planes.

Actually, the entire underlying concept of the Space Opera (sciene fiction) space battle that is the heart of this game is so flawed scientifically as to be a joke.

Energy shields that one must thwack until they cave? Hello? that's nonsense and about as advanced as Beowulf's time -- space fighting is not swordplay.

Weapons that are aimed by a reticule like an atmospheric jet aircraft? Sorry, without the resistance of an atmosphere and gravity to keep one oriented, only a computer could calculate trajectory fast enough. Ships would not engage at all at close range. Only computer driven, smart missiles would be used. There would be no real use for a "gun" of any kind.

We are still using concepts for space exploration and space flight that originated with Willy Ley and Werner Von Braun in the 1940's.

The US Space Shuttle, for example, is a space plane built using 1960s technology from concepts drawn up in Von Braun's Germany during WW II. So only now do we learn that wings on spacecraft are "inherently dangerous?" Jeez.

In a word, there would be no dogfights in space.

But, hey, who's complaining. At the rate Earth's various present space programs are going, we're never going to get up there to test the hypotheses anyway.

For a really original view of spacecraft and space battles, see the science fiction of Murray Leinster, A.E. Van Vogt and other folks that wrote for John W. Campbell's magazines.

Omicron 150k missions are great.

to make fast money go to omicron beta hit the parthfinder and get 10 paralyzer missiles 2x wildfire and 1 gunslinger turret then either land at the outcast base or go out the jumphole to sigma 19 then go back and do it again and again as they keep comming back each time, good idea to be friends with the outcasts.