Rebalance MP player start questions

Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:28 pm by redgab

My son just got Freelancer and has finished the campaign. I got some mods for him from Lancer's Reactor. One of these was Rebalance, which I had heard mentioned favorably, but when we installed it and he started it up he was very disappointed. The mod started him in a new system called "Earth Alliance System System" and when he went to different places looking for missions they were all level 30 or higher, not really suitable for a starting character in a Patriot fighter (I think that is what he had?). He also looked at other ships available, and they all cost $100,000 to $1,000,000 or more - way WAY out of range of anything he could ever afford, especially with no missions available. Then out in space he was attacked by hordes of enemies and barely escaped into a dock.

Is this where the mod was supposed to start him off as a new character, or is there something we could set to start him off someplace friendlier? He is a pretty good pilot in this game (way better than me when I sat down to try it!) and has finished the standard campaign, but in a starting ship with crummy guns he had no chance against the swarm that came after him.

Are we missing something here? Because this just seems like a really strange setup for starting off new characters.

Any help appreciated. We would like to make this mod work, as he is excited about having new systems to explore.

redgab

Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:32 pm by redgab

Just checked, and the Rebalance I downloaded for him is version 3.4, with a patch upgrade 2.1. Would he be better off with v.3.5? Or maybe an older version?

redgab

Fri Jan 28, 2005 10:46 pm by Ro9ue

Hey redgab,
Yeah, the start loadout and location stunk in 3.4. They were not very .. conducive to success (or fun) as a starting player, to say the least.
Rebalance v3.5 is going to start with a better ship in a less hostile location. You'll have a little cash to maybe give your rig a minor lift right from the start, or you can save and work towards the better stuff right off the bat.

I'm sorry that your son's first experience with Rebal (MP, at least) was less than what you had in mind (I felt the same way before I started modding to fix things). But like I said, we've made sure things are in order for 3.5, so stay tuned for some future fun and balance

Ro9ue
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Sat Jan 29, 2005 3:47 am by black_sabbath

Hi red, if ur son wants to give 3.5 a try, heres a site you can dl it from
http://www.zodsworld.us/Downloads.htm he has the REBAL 3.5 beta 3 avilable for down load, and also there are 2 good servers for ur son (and your self ) to jion, the servers are BLACK SABBATHS BETA TEST SERVER and ZODS WORLD. Both run rebal 3.5 and as soon as its ready for release, they will be running the final version of rebalance. Hope you and ur son enjoy the rebalance experiance

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Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:45 am by redgab

Thanks, y'all! Will now go and DL the Rebalance 3.5 beta for him to try out. Anything to tricky to watch for in installation, or does it install with FLMM?

redgab

Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:59 am by black_sabbath

there should be no probs with the install, use flmm and you should be flying ok, if you do get any probs, just deactivate the mod, and do a clean install of freelancer, and you should be ok, you may also want to dl the offical 1.1 patch from microsoft, and either the 1.3 sdk files on lancers or the unoffical 1.4 patch, which is also on zods site

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Sun Jan 30, 2005 3:15 pm by Ro9ue

Yeah, there should not be any problem if you just activate the mod from FLMM with no other mods activated (do a Restore Backups from the Options menu - or maybe it's the Tools menu - one of those). If there are any problems, though (you are, after all, overwriting and deleting a lot of files), do as Sabb said and do clean installs of both FL and the mod. I tihnk the latest version of the FLMM is 1.31, and SDK isn't mandatory but can't hurt.

By the way, the final version of 3.5 is nearly ready - about one more week is all goes as planned

All I can say is w00t w00t

Later

Ro9ue
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