Now that I think about it, there is a way to beat Hovis through the cheats. You change the cruise speed to about 10 k/hour and the normal speed way up. Just don't activate your cruise engines during the race, and you'll outstrip him by a long shot.

But you'll need to be able to control it. And in singleplayer, i think you're cruise mods affect hovis too.

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As for changing the cruise speed, what you change for one you change for all

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Can't keep your finger off that cruise, cardam/ne?

The point is you let Hovis bop along at 30k plus while YOU do nothing... breathe in deep, feel the cardamine, and drive around the course like you're doing the kiddy cars at the amusement park. The AI can't steer effectively at that speed, and isn't smart enough to NOT go on cruise.

But you're right, this thread probably should die. Let's talk about something else... hey, how many sleeper ships were there? And where IS the monkey planet? And... oops, gotta go.

Edited by - WatercoolerWarrior on 12/22/2004 12:22:14 AM

I lost the first few times i tried it ... I found i had to cocentrate on completeing the course and not racing Hovis. He does screw it up at the end ...

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heh, the monkey planet along with the robot planet are in the "Unknown" system, the jump hole for which is in the green cloud in Omicron Gamma, sector 2F. I myself only found it this morning


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Edited by - Wizard on 3/5/2005 8:30:21 AM

that was supposed to be a joke, since people ask about it - but come to think of it, it took me forever to find the place. Taught me to always cruise through the clouds...

you guys are complening about loseing heaps of times the only advice i can give you is that you should wait because i was loseing for half the course in my hf but at the second to last courner i out manuvered him so and got angrey and got his goons to fire on me and i was lucky i had heaps of nonbots and batteriers

HELP!!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!!

I beat the Hovis dude and then what YOU CANT DOCK ANTWHERE IM STUCK IN THE SYSTEM SO HELP PLEASE

K listen where do you put the mod files

This is Freelancer:M-B tranmitting.

Edited by - Freelancer: M-B on 1/31/2005 11:49:50 AM

Are you running any Mods, or the original game? If the game, you missed a trigger and need to go back to the last auto save and rerun it.

People need to learn to beat him themselves. The mod is a complete waste...except for complete lazy noobs. Like I've said, true skill is defined by the person skill itself. Not mods or great technology.

im just gonna be a b*tch and say i beat hovis in a humpback...



anyways, the only way you can LOSE from him is when he starts shooting at you, and you dont have any defence(shields, armor, A HULL!)

however, some of those mods out therte with engine modding(rebalance, evolutions, fithgear(oops, openSP that one))
pick the wrong engine and you will lose

to anyone racing him with those mods: try to get an engine upgrade, thats not a plugin but a whole new kind of engine, preferably the MK3
---------------rebalance spesific, the Xwing and Ywing engines are amongst the fasted, and fairly cheap, go for one of those if you get the chance

i can only say im good, nothing more...

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People need to learn to beat him themselves. The mod is a complete waste...except for complete lazy noobs. Like I've said, true skill is defined by the person skill itself. Not mods or great technology.

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I couldn't care less what you think. Some people actually *have* problems beating him.
This isn't a mod, it's a cheat.

Personally, I think the whole race is a waste. Trent should have simply beaten the info out of him instead of racing his race (where Hovis himself cheats by letting the weapons platforms shoot missiles at you because he's going to lose).

If you are a good player and piolot you can beat hovis unless you or your game or comp screw up.

I do understand how some people couldnt beat him. Personally my dad is okay on most games but when he has to do somthing different like racing in a shooting game he freaks out and loses (seriously its true)

mini games like races change from the normal routine of fly streigt, shoot, kill, flee, of the normal random missions and freak some people out. and sometimes these people need help

"If im phased and can walk through stuff, then why am I not falling through the floor?"

JEEZ!!!! its so easy to beat him! my computer barely runs freelancer and i beat him! ii was also flying the britonia heavy fighter(clydsdale)! dont cheat!... well im off to get a jump hole map, cya!