Not that it matters much but I just wanted to share my recent experiences rediscovering Freelancer. I blasted through the single player campaign in a mad rush and got a little burned out. But I stayed in touch with these forums and have followed the progress of this game even though my interest had fallen off a bit.

Well tonight I thought I would see how my new video card drivers worked with a few games, so I slapped in the Freelancer disc. Once I got back to my saved game (New York system just having beaten the game), I figured I better pick a place to go to see how the game ran. So I set a few waypoints toward Rheinland space and just flew around. Got in some battles, did a little exploring, using turret view with mouse look to take in my surroundings... again, all to "see how the new drivers were." Well, two hours later, I'm kind of hooked again. While I'm not new to open ended games (one of my all time favorites is Darklands), I think the go anywhere do anything right after beating the game was a little overwhelming. But now I'm ready to go take in the sights and see what's out there.

I have a feeling that trading won't have too much interest for me in the long run because I still feel the economic model is a little stagnant, but I'm anxious to go explore all that's out there. Anyway, I've enjoyed my time here at lancers reactor and I'm having a blast getting back into the game.