Well, you could start a multiplayer server for yourself, and play on it. Then you get the full open ended game. No storyline, just a simple ship and 2000 credits and you are on your own to do what you want, wherever you want.

You can run the server and game on the same machine, just launch the flserver.exe file in the game dir,and then launch the game, do multiplayer, lan, and join your server.

If you want to stick with the single player, the campaign is not horribly long, and you are cut loose to do whatever you want when it's over. But you pretty much have to go thru all that stuff in order to get there. There are some mods that people have made which allow you to ignore the story, but I'm not certain how stable it is.

It'd be nice if they had put a open ended single player mode as well, instead of just the server option, for those with machines that can't handle running both that well (mine for example )

Edited by - Whiplash on 01-04-2003 06:42:39

what u need to run server and game?

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Be sure to get the server patch as soon as it gets out!

In approx 4 weeks time? Yes?

Also, Xerx is working on a MOD that will allow you to play without using a server at all, one that will bypass the SP story and unlock all the gates... one that will last past level 17 too. I wish him luck on it, I hear he is almost finished!

Zeratural? Did you take Zertaul's name and change it slightly? ..Cause if you did....










I dont care since Terran is my favorite species on Starcraft.

In the main Freelancer directory(\Freelancer\EXE), find a file named flserver.exe. Run this file before you run Freelancer. The first time it runs, it wants to be set up. Try setting it up first as a LAN-only server (deselect internet option). A small window showing server stats will result.

Now run Freelancer, choose the multiplayer option, choose LAN only, and select the server that comes up. Try some missions and see if you lose any frames or if the graphics appear otherwise sluggish.

I did this on one machine with dual monitors, moved the Flserver window to the second monitor (you can't get to it or task switch after Freelancer is running) and noted that the server load bar was at 10 to 20 msec. This was on a dual 2.4GHz Xeon with 2GB RAM. I also noted a little ****y graphics; the video card on this computer is a Quaddro 750 XL and is better for OpenGL, not games.

I shut down, and then ran Flserver on a second machine on my network and Freelancer on the first, and noted that server load was now zero to one-ish msec and that Freelancer ran smoothly.

So in my case (and as the instructions also allude to) running Freelancer server and Freelancer on one machine is possible, but with slightly degraded performance.

Hope this helps.