Read the readme and the HTML document under the EXTRAS directory on the CD!

Best Regards
Christian "Bargib" Koerner
Editor in Chief, The Lancers Reactor

if you dont get the gobal catalog server its very unlikely you can direct connect. you probaby get a "takes longer then expected error" :S

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hmm direct connect. When I use freelancer -sipnumber:2302
then I go to internet, and it still keeps hanging on connecting to global server.
So, is there a real dirrect connect? and not just adding an ip to the server list.

Once you have added the IP to the "server list" it should show up under LAN games, as well as under internet games.

In the EXE directory of the Freelancer installation there is a file called "fldirectip.hta" - this is an "HTML Application", i.e. a runnable script - which gives you a GUI to type in the servers you'd like to connect to.

If you don't want your client or server to contact the MS servers at all then edit the "freelancer.ini" file and comment out (by putting ";" infront of the line) the stuff in the [ListServer section - specifically there's a line that says "hostname = fllistserver.zone.msn.com" - you can change that to ";hostname = fllistserver.zone.msn.com" and you're done.