Thu Jun 12, 2003 9:37 am by Diivox
it is great fun to play outlaw from the beginning.
here is what i have done. i have beaten the game 5 times single player. this time i loaded it up with OpenSP mod and destructable universe. The jumpholes are my only real means of travel through the main colonies, so it gets me in charachter quite a bit. raid cargo, kill police, find every jumphole, its a great way to play the game if all you've ever done is play navy/police dudde. its also great fun if you travel mostly by trade lane. you get rewarded for going into cool looking clouds by secret passageways that are often quicker than than even the trade lands (chugoku and sigma 19 are nice, because they lead to so many places, you can always use it as a "shortcut" to whre you are headed.) I find it grewat fun to have limited safe havens and when i get into a big bad ship with big bd guns for a region i help the local criminals conquer places. for example i was in colorado system and with destructable universe mod i helped the lane hackers completely destroy pueblo station. i killed all the fighters and got the transports (it tallys your freighter kills AND your transport kills! score!) and the hackers kept shooting the station until the final satisfying boom. use youri magination and create storylines, make enemies with a powerful faction like the corsairs and then go to their home turf, there are limitless things to do with freelancer, and a huge world to explore. another suggestion is to use missles ; most people refuse to use them because they are too expensive. give me a break. these are the same folks who complain about getting to level 38 too quickly. i dont trade in the "buy here, sell there" sense, but i do "loot here, sell there" from transports. i dont take the cheesy 135k missions unless im desperate for cash, and i enjoy each system thoroughly before moving onto the next. i will still be playing freelancer for some time to come i think.
