Did you know the info card is wrong on the Xenos about the enemies? It says all but for IMG and Zoners.

If you look in the emapthy.ini for Xenos it is acually positive for Zoners (correct) but not IMG. It is positive for Synthetic Foods and Bundshuh groups.

The faction name for IMG and Synthetic Foods look the same 'in' to 'im' so I asume it is a buglet. There are some more secret Xeno bases they tell you about after you join them; the factions near them should correlate.

IMG is Independent Miners Guild and would make sense to change it from Sythetic Foods back to IMG. I assume th Bundshuh group must be in league also with Xenos.

I guess when I modify this file I will fix this litle buglet and update the infocard someday.

I want to set up the factions so no more cheese where everyone is happy or neutral with you. Change stuff so that makes it impossible to please all, and a reason not to be neutral to penalty; such as factions not doing business with you unless they really like you. Make it so you can not buy batteries and nanobots also. Set it up so that at least 1/3 will be hostile at best....rock, scissor, paper.

How about a way to make it so that a bribe could make the player all Green with one faction all Red with that factions enemies and neutral with the rest. Then how about alter the dialogue so it sounds like an offer to join said faction. Make the "bribe" cost nothing and only appear on said factions bases and be offered by that factions reps only. This being en leu of a MP mod that lets you choose a side to fight for.

I like ^ that idea, anyone know how to implement it??

I've just made the leap from mac onto pc and still as yet am having problems at the basic level.

Could someone please give me a idiot proof guide as to how to get the netural rep (i need to make friends with the outcasts) in MP mode.

If you do it and it works for me, there's a 1/4 of a million credits waiting for you in the FiiK 24/7 server.

Now you can't say fairer than that.

First come first serve.

To actually make yourself neutral to all sides but zoners:
In newcharacter.ini:

[Faction
nickname = new_player
rep_group = gd_z_grp <== that's the important part
base = Li01_01_Base
Package = ge_fighter
Pilot = trent

In mpnewcharacter.fl:

[Player
name = %%NAME%%
initial_rep = %%FACTION%% <== remove the ; in front of this line
rank = 0

and then comment out (by putting a ; in front) all the lines that start with house =

The zoners will be your friends, and everybody else will be neutral or very close to neutral. Good luck!

Keirok:

Hmm not a bad idea. One slight problem though with what you said.

Make 1 green, 1 red and the rest nuetral right?

You said "Make the "bribe" cost nothing and only appear on said factions bases and be offered by that factions reps only and only if you have a good standing with them to start with."

How can you change your rep with any of the nuetrals then if you have to have a good one to start with?

Now however what IS feasible....how about this.

You can "choose" 4 paths like on the game box. Lets use the following:

Military --- (good to all military, red to all pirates, nuetral to rest)
Merchant --- (good to all non-military / police, red to pirates, nuetral to rest)
Bounty Hunter --- (good with BH, & police, red to pirates, neutral to rest)
Pirate --- (good to all pirates, red to police, BH, military, nuetral to rest)

You could techinally have what you suggested above, but you would need to be able to do it at nuetral status. I will think on this and see what I can do for my mod

Would something like that work? it is very feasilbe, it would just take me some time to implement

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Edited by - Reynen on 24-04-2003 03:26:57

thx n4tuneb. ill give it a try when i get home tonight.

couple of things.

1: does it work for multi player

2: do you have to start with a new character. or can i still use my existing character

Can anyone tell me how to use this uncompressor please? I tried typing things in and it just closes the program.

Use the command line Bini.

Put it in a directory by itself.

Copy the .ini file you want to hack from the FreeLancer subdirectory and paste it into the Bini directory.

Drag the .ini file icon onto the Bini.exe icon.

In a few seconds a new file will appear in the directory, .ini.txt.

Make a sub directory of your Bini directory and move the original .ini file into it.

E dit the .ini.txt file with wordpad. DO NOT use note pad.

When finished rename the .ini.txt file to .ini.

Move the new .ini back to the FreeLancer directory where it came from and overwrite the original.

You're good to go!



The Fangman

Hey Reynen,

That's a good idea, but the hard part is "choosing". Afaik, DA/MS disabled the code that would let you choose your character at the beginning of multiplayer. Even if you make more than one [Faction entry in DATA\CHARACTERS\newcharacter.ini it will only take one. If you crack the case, please let me know. Thx. Great mod btw.

To TexPiss: It's only for multiplayer, and yes, you have to start a new character.

Only for multiplayer?? I've got it working w/ my existing single player character. I havn't yet tried it online.

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JESUS CHRIST! i didnt noe there is another Ravener! god damn it... thx for the tutorial... i have been looking for ways to change it but i cant... i think i must thank IGx89 personally.... thx all guys

P.S. i'm Ravener from Singapore not the Ravener from USA... maybe i should change my nick...

oh yea... after reading the front page, i was thinking if we REALLY have to start a new char in order for the empathy.ini to work... i dun wish to start all over... wish someone can make a savegame editor too.. it will be great..

Rave from Singapore

ok here is the deal.. could any one of you tell me what software to use to mod the .ini files cause when i open it in a wordpad i get these bizzare squares!!!!!