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Having problems staying connected in Freelancer

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Post Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:52 pm

Having problems staying connected in Freelancer

Whenever I join a server and fly to space, my connection dies (Server Connection lost etc.) after a couple of seconds, I used to think this was because of enabling/disabling Mouse Flight but that isn't the problem. Nvidia Firewall is disabled, Windows XP firewall is disabled, and so is my Linksys Wired Router on DMZ mode for my IP. I've got Service Pack 1 for Windows XP.

Also, I've been playing OpenSP1.1, I decided to raid some neutral transports/cargoships...with a Defender. Needless to say everybody, including the non-criminal Friendly Green factions hate me. I can't land anywhere because I get swamped by the fuzz! What can I do to make them stop hating me?

Post Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:47 am

I don't know about your technical issues, but if you attack a neutral cargoship then the house police and military will always turn on you because it's their job to protect the cargoships. Since the rogues probably hate you too, this amounts to everyone hating you. Try flying to another system - the neutral targets should return if you haven't damaged your reputation too much.

Post Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:29 am

To your first question, are you running any mods? anything that is different than what the server runs can cause you to get kicked out.

Your second question, Shoot rouges, pirates and soforth, to make friends with house police. Don't shoot friendlys, unless you want to be a pirate. You can head to a zeno base if you are very unfriendlty with police.

Edited by - Finalday on 1/20/2005 3:29:27 AM

Post Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:11 am

I'm not running any mods, just Freelancer 1.0 on a Freelancer 1.0 server. The technical problem is actually my cousin's, I just host the server...and play on the same computer...XD

Will the friendly corportations hate me forever? When I say everyone hates me, I mean everyone...about when should Houses go back to neutrality with me even if we're green buddies? Good thing I've got a "good save".

Funny thing is that my cousin's computer (Athlon 64 2000+, GeForce 6600GT PCI-E, 1GB PC3200 RAM) is the first one we built, fairly easy enough with the exceptions of the small black jumper cables and the whole tangled PSU cables. He's been having alot of problems with it, his onboard Ethernet didn't work with his wired Linksys router so he had to get the Ethernet card outta his Dell Dimension 4600, his onboard audio didn't work (even with drivers) so he had to get his PCI Creative Blaster out of his Dimension 4600, and now Painkiller doesn't load up (does nothing after trying to double-click the icon), and whenever he tries to install BF1942, it has some weird error message about some "media component" not being able to be accessed!

I want his computer so I can fix it...and than keep it.

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