no jump drive...use trade lanes. They are going to start charging for using trade lanes in the sequel. It's all monopoly. It is a conspiracy. Same answer if you ask why do we still use 60 year old technology of internal combustion engine on cars?
Because large oil company wants to keep the consumption of petrol high so that they make more money. In Freelancer, those petrol company are like the trade lane companies lie agiera and friends. This company must be Exxon, a millenium into the future...

Hit your enemy when they are down
Hit your enemy when they surrender
Hit your enemy when they can't fight no more

and what's microsoft doing that far in the future?

Microsoft?...

Wo do you think made the trade lane / nav program?

Why do you think people complain of crashing their ship into planets and star?

Why there are so many features that you wish were there but it is only going to be release in some future patch?

why is it so buggy?

why does everyone use it?

Some things don't change even a thousand years into the future..

Hit your enemy when they are down
Hit your enemy when they surrender
Hit your enemy when they can't fight no more

internal combustion is 100 years old and thier are alternitves like a wakel rotary engine its just that the normal engine does the job best we dont have the technolgy for anything else to be usefull for day to day

I vote that cruise engines are a sustained, maneuverable form of a jump drive. Think about it. The rate at which you accelerate is roughly the same, and you never do see what happens between the activation and de-activation in SL...both can take you across a syastem in about the same amount of time....

Reaper: $200,000,000.
Rockets: $100,000
The look on that pilot's face when you launch a full pod of screamers up his tailpipe: priceless

jup agree cruise = advanced jump drive

though the warp drive seems to be lost, a shame, it was the special feature of our carrier ANS Darkening ^-^

@CannonFodder

--"internal combustion is 100 years old and thier are alternitves like a wakel rotary --engine its just that the normal engine does the job best we dont have the --technolgy for anything else to be usefull for day to day"

Not to be a nit-picker, but you should be aware that the Wakel-Rotary (see NOTE below) engine IS an internal combustion engine. It is not an alternative to interal combustion, as you imply. In point of fact, the Wakel-Rotary engine actually consumes MORE gas than a standard engine.

Just an FYI...
***NOTE - it's not a Wakel-Rotary engine, but the Forum edits the part of the word that it really is. There should be an 'N' between the 'A' and the 'K' in Wakel. But when I put it in, the forum changes the name to ****el-Rotary. HAHA Funny...***


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Edited by - WapCaplet on 10-04-2003 18:41:56

it would be nice to have maybe time zoom factor?... that automatically stops when someone shoots cruise distruptor...

Hit your enemy when they are down
Hit your enemy when they surrender
Hit your enemy when they can't fight no more

Cruise engines are more effecient, you could drop out of jump into an ambush and be caught completely of guard, with cruise engines you see it coming and have time to avoid/get ready.

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