Bummer. I connected from my work and I played fine. Ping of 40. The server resides in OKlahoma, USA. However I noticed that my new character didn't begin with 15,000 credits.

Raven_sb, are you one of the developers of this mod? Can you tell me what language the website you posted is in? I can't seem to find anything that can translate it correctly. I'd like to keep up-to-date on the progress of this mod, but I can't read anything.

NU ... Niue

wtf is Niue???
never heard of that in my *entire* life...

ok... "Niue is a self-governing country in free association with New Zealand. A coral island of only 260 sq km, Niue lies close to its fellow Polynesian neighbour of Niue."

the language itself seems to be something nordic, at least me as a german can decrypt some of its words

Edited by - sp00n on 21-03-2003 17:07:12

where do you put the mod?

Skavengur,

Just want to let you know that your server with the exomod worked great. Wow leaving the planet and running into a headlong battle with a Battleship in orbit. You need to add those extra $$$. Unfortuantly the internet connection to your server is spotty at best. Lost connection while in middle of battle with some Xenos fighters.

Am using ADSL in North America.

Thanks

Ok ive worked out where you put the mod files with that Mod file thing. But when i use the mods i think its either battle ship (cheap) or cruise ship (cheap) my game LAGS and its impossible to play. This isnt on the net either What Should I do. My system specs are well above the minimum.
2.8 Ghz
512 DDr
P4
gforce mx 440 128mb
120 gig hard drive
Altho when i run freelancer it says my video card is dont up to scratch but my comp vertualy BRAND new.

Ok, just wanted to apologize to anyone that had problems on the Field Ratz server this weekend. Apparently when a non-modded machine connects to the server, it locks it up. Hence the added password now of "devon".
I'm not sure how to add the 15,000 begining credits feature, anyone have any ideas? I know this was intended to be client side only, but it's just too tempting to get a server up and running immediately with it!

geforce mx is your problem, bountyhunter... the mx cards are total garbage.. i would get a 4ti if you can afford it (they are not expensive).

Go look in your C:\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\EXE folder and find a file called mpnewcharacter

Open the mpnewcharacter with notepad and look for something like this:

[Player
name = %%NAME%%
;initial_rep = %%FACTION%%
rank = 0

money = %%MONEY%%
;voice = %%VOICE%%
;All must be Trent!
voice = trent_voice

costume = %%BASE_COSTUME%%
com_costume = %%COMM_COSTUME%%

system = %%HOME_SYSTEM%%
base = %%HOME_BASE%%

And change it to this

[Player
name = %%NAME%%
;initial_rep = %%FACTION%%
rank = 0

money = 15000
;money = %%MONEY%%
;voice = %%VOICE%%
;All must be Trent!
voice = trent_voice

costume = %%BASE_COSTUME%%
com_costume = %%COMM_COSTUME%%

system = %%HOME_SYSTEM%%
base = %%HOME_BASE%%

That should do it. Good Luck and be sure to backup any files before making any changes to them.

Allright, I've taken the mod back off of the Field Ratz server. It was just not stable enough. It was constantly disconnecting players and needing rebooted. If you have a character that you have worked up and would like a copy of it, you can email me and I'll do my best to get it to you. I just need your character's name.

[email protected]

I look forward to this mod in it's completed form, hopefully with version checking, should be great. Until then, the server is back with the standard game.

My apologies, Skavengur. It appears I crashed your server by connecting with my mod files still in. Just read thru the posts and saw yours about removing the mod. Not exactly sure of the time but t'was close to when you posted. Sorry bout that.

Zinlu

"Be who you are and say what you feel ~ because those who mind don't matter ~ and those who matter don't mind."

~Theodor Seuss Geisel ~ Dr. Seuss~

No sweat Zinlu, this was a constant problem over the weekend. I'm sure this will run much better with the intended server-side mod. However, this game definitely needs a version compatibility checker.
Thanks Starnova for the info. My God! This is an extremely easy game to modify! We should see some amazing mods in the future.

You know what would be neat....a list of places the buy all this new stuff.