You have to complete the main missions first if you want total freedom. But when you've finished, you're free to do whatever you want

"A good pun is its own reword"

If you want to start off doing whatever you want, you'll have to get FreeLancer Mod Manager and get the Open SP mod.

viper, for mp u don't need to download something and u can take the route with u wanna do...

for sp, ur right...

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Spamius Threadius

Not necessarily. You end the SP campaign in the green with the Blood Dragons. Work for them until you're -20 or better with the GC's. Work for them until -20 with the Outcasts. Working for the Outcasts helps you with lots of criminal factions. Any at -20 or better will give you jobs.

Basically, the only real way of being friends with all the criminals is to take on Bounty Hunters. All the criminals hate the Bounty Hunters, for good reason , so you'll be allied with them in no time. Sure, you'll have the Guild on your back -- but as a criminal, you probably ultimately would anyway.

"If it aint on fire, you haven't shot it up bad enough yet" - my old teacher on Planet Housten.

wait until after you've finished the SP game to start your life of crime. When I did, i was lucky enough to find a neutral corsair base and i docked and bribed my way to the top. I saw the titan there for the first time and stayed on to work up the cash. If you're lucky like me, you can end up totally friendly with the Outcasts, Corsairs and Bounty Hunters at the same time. Makes Border world passage friendly and you can still take big payoff missions against the GMG. If you leave em alone long enough, people like the rouges and hessians will fall into line eventually. Just start with one faction at a time.

Give a man fire and he'll be warm for the night. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.- Terry Prachett