No...

No to which part?

Care to elaborate?

You can't see other people stationside, and you can't change avatars. The weird thing is, when you're creating a character on a server, there is a pic of Trent standing there a la in RPG games, as if you could change it. Odd

Damn you DA! Now I cant pretend Im playing a better, much more engrossing EnB! YAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!

Jk.

Now, to hijack my own post, how cool are the landing scenes? Ive seen screenshots of them, but Id like someones opinion.

They're all only a couple seconds long and are cool to look at. They're not those type of cutscenes where u wanna skip them all the time, but u can if u want with a simple press of the ESC key.

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Landing scenes can occasionally get tedious - you can't skip them in multiplayer, naturally. Some are short, some are a bit too long. Too long being only like 6 seconds, but after you've seen it several times it can get irritating.

Right then...going back to original point....when your docked, is there at least a list of who's docked with you? And can u trade and give items/cash to parked ships/players etc?

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is there at least a list of who's docked with you? And can u trade and give items/cash to parked ships/players etc?

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Nope, there isnt a list of who is docked. And no, you cant trade with people who are docked. You can only do that in space.

Edited by - ElectricBrain on 19-02-2003 11:39:37

Ok, fair enough, how about this then...while in space I hear there is a way of seeing whos in the area...does this include docked players?

And if trading is restricted to space flight only, is there some cut scene showing the exchange ie tractor beams etc?

You can see everybody and which system they are in but you do not have their exact coordinates UNLESS you and that other person are in a Group. But you cant see the other person anymore if he docks. Only people in space are visible and detectable on sensors.

No, there are no cutscenes showing that. You know how repetitive that will become? The chitchat in Freelancer was cut (some of it) simply because a lot of it became repetitive and people just skipped it anyways. I doubt having a cutscene for trading would be any different. It'll be something ppl will just ignore and skip after a couple of times.

Okay, I just saw the interface video hosted on this website and now I understand it works. Its not like EnB where you walk around and walk to people, its like Freespace 2 kinda in the way where when you are docked you see things from a certain perspective and must click on people to talk to them.

Makes more sense now.