Early in my first game (before Mission 2), I was hanging out at Rochester trying to get Rouge faction from "neutral negative" to "neutral positive" by blasting incoming Xenos and Bounty Hunters. I hear the "drop the loot" message and assume it was directed at me. But there was no Drop Loot screen. Turns out, a Rouge was demanding loot from a Junker... who refused.

For the next 20 minutes, Rochester was the site of a massive firefight between the Rogues and the Junkers. I seemed to be the only one in the vicinity who was fighting Xenos, BH's, and the occassional cop.

So much for honor among theives.

Yep I have to admit the AI conversations are pretty funny. "I hope this shipment of Diamonds brings a good price in ...." Thanks for telling me I'll just have to blow a hole in you and extract some of those from you. "I'm taking fire from the enemy" yea I guessed that by the flames coming out of your ship. Had some of them "chase" me in thruster mode near a sun and watched them all burn up in the corona! "ahhhhhhh!" BOOM! Blew my own wings off with Torps & missles while killing a BIG group of ships. I was going to do a head to head, kill engine slide and fire some missles up their back sides when I got too close and BOOM no wings and massive damage oops load game, bang head on keyboard. Damaged a ship who said he was bugging out as the enemy was just too strong right now. Next thing I know here comes the fool still burning shooting at me! Of course I was obliged to blow him out of the sky for stupidity. Just some Observations from the edge of space

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"hmmm, mollys dying constantly by their own mines in the minefield which they lay out to protect themselves...?"

Man, that cracked me up. First time I went there I was in a barely upgraded patriot, so I was moving through the mine field really slowly . After a while the spectacle just started to snap something in my brain, watching entire freshly launched patrols enter the minefield at cruise and go off like fireworks. Absolutely hillarious. Then there was a group of bounty hunters who almost made it through the field and a large group of mollies launched to defend. That fight lasted about five seconds and resulted in 100% casualties on both sides. Sweet!

Well one of the weirdest things I have ever had happen was... I was flying in the omega systems... and for some unknown reason, I was stuck in a trade lane.. It was like I was in a trade lane .. but I wasnt, I hadnt docked in one.. but it was around me. When I would move to the side, it would move with me. To try to fix this I docked at a Jump Gate, and went thru. On the other side I still had the same problem. O, and when I went into an actual trade lane... It was like I was seeing double. Confused and pissed, I decided to quit and rejoin. I did it and it fixed the problem =)..

Another time.. I saw a guy getting killed over and over, so I talked to him and found out that this level38 guy was just slaughtering him over and over (him being level 1..) Anyway I go to NY with my friend, and we proceed to give this guy everything we got.. But nothing happened, his shields wouldnt go down.. and he began to fire on me.. lucky it was me and not my friend cause he had a titan and couldn't run as easy.. Well anyways, we deemed this guy a hacker and I began to run .. What happened next was quite funny. I had no shield bats left, and I was heading right for planet manhattan... hhahaha it was great.. right b4 his final shot killed me, the all to familiar words of "entering the atmosphere came over the loudspeaker and I exploded. I proceeded to laugh my ass off and make fun of the fag hacker. A few minutes later the server crashed.. so I got on AIM and talked to my buds that were in the game and we laughed for awhile. A few minutes later, the server came back on.. And it said in the console "the hacker "V" has been banned" It was a good end to a funny/lame situation.

I think the large merchants cannot pilot worth a damm..

I was leaving cortez to the londen systems, when a BMM freighter went to dock with the jump gate; a second BMM freighter was coming for the other direction (going from left to right) and his path came across the other side of the trade lane...
well, lets just say that freighter A, going 600+kph, hitting the side of freighter b, going cruise @ 300kph made for a large fireball... the escorts kept going in thier said direction... Ke=1/2 MV*V holds very true in space...

The other good ones are the zoners or corsairs who put mines next to thier bases and proceed to die from hitting too many of them after leaving thier bases...(cant say where... spoiler
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"Ive come to kick ass and chew bubblegum...and Im all out of gum"

was looting ALG Waste Disposal ships, after whittling both down a bit, they crashed into each other and both died

Letssee

a group of freighters entering a jumpgate 90* off on the Z axis, anf 45* off on the X axis...three in a row.

oh, and the fighters smashed into the jumpgate...

The man with his head stuck in the Blender

it wasn't funny at the time, but having the (F3) Dock run me into the atmosphere of some planet while in the process of docking and destroying my ship... a similar thing happened while docking at one of the Freeport stations... I pressed (F3) and it proceeded to repeatedly ram my ship into some kind of steel support member of the station -- sounded like one of those smiling, drumming monkeys 'did-a-diddda-did-a-didddddd' or a Tommy gun on crack.

The Ring system with no planet in the middle is pretty funny. And there's a sun somewhere that has a ring system. Wha-da-f**?

Funniest moment was being in a fully maxxed out Sabre and being attacked by 20 Xenos. Like swatting gnats with a howitzer.

-NL

My funniest Freelancer moments...let me see here:

1) When, one-after-one, a wing of Rogue fighters flew straight into the mine field around the New York -> Alaska jumpage. One dies, then another, then another...they couldn't figure out that the mines actually exploded

2) When I was in a group with 3 other people, they were formed on me, then I ran into a planet. Took all of them with me

3) When someone tried to steal my cargo and I didn't feel like fighting over it. I dropped it, then tractored it back in to see what the guy would say. He was like "My loot! My beautiful loot!" like he had just lost a hot girlfriend

4) When I modded my cruise speed to 2500 and was traveling through the Frankfurt system. I looked away to watch TV for a bit when I heard twenty explosions. I looked back to see I had run head first into that very dense mine field in the brown cloud. It was a rather nice display.

5) And you just can't forget the dumbarse computers that run right into planets.

I was sitting in Manhattan space, when a convoy of two trains and 2 starfliers comes up. The whole convoy drives right into Manhattan. Train chunks were everywhere. I start laughing, but it gets better. My brother was trying to dock with Manhattan and he clips the docking ring and goes flying into Manhattan. Now laughing my ass off, it only gets funnier. Two bounty hunters find themselves one with the atmosphere. Then my friend, leading some Xenos to Manhattan, flies past me, typing "XENOS!" I forgot to put my scanner on "Ship" and Xenos somehow got neutral to me, so I did what I do best: "RAMMING SPEED!" Using my humpback, I rammed a Xeno. Which bounced off the docking moor and dove into the docking ring, exploding due to 3 plasma bolts slamming into it while it rammed the ring. I "quickly" (as we all know, the humpback is as manuverable as a turtle) turn my Humpback, just enough to see the Xeno that was in formation explode in the atmosphere. I was laughing so hard, I didn't realize I was driving into the planet, until about a second before I exploded. All in all, 10 ships drove into Manhattan's atmosphere. All this in about 2 minutes.

funnyest thing??!! i don't know if this is funny but here it is: travelled almost 50 plus k's in a trade lane so smooth that i nearly felt asleep, then i took a 8 k trade lane and i was disrupted about 6 or 7 times. i guess quantity isn't everything

life sux ...and then ...you die

I was exiting the trade lane by the New York -> Colorado jumpgate when lo and behold, I saw a squad of Liberty Rogues (neutral to me) hijacking a convoy that exited the trade lane just in front of me. I heard the ultimatum issued to dump cargo or else, and the freighter dumped all its cargo right under my nose.

I happily tractored it all in and beat feet to the jumpgate. The Rogues didn't even notice. It ended up being luxury consumer goods, 22 units' worth, which I sold for a pretty penny.

i was playing chicken with some one i was going a way from a planet i turned just a bit and he went right into the planet.

Then the sheep said...

I once did a random kill-em-all mission.
It was near a star's corona, so when I reached the battlefield all the enemies got blown by the star. Pretty funny.
And the Mollys getting wasted by their own minesfield is great as well.

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And there's a sun somewhere that has a ring system. Wha-da-f**?

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That's a neutron star...