one word.... "Open SP"

here
or here

That's two words, Nighthound, "open" and "SP"...maybe even three, since SP stands for Single Player .

Anyway, to expand on that a little...there isn't really any way that you can be a bad guy and still progress in the game. You have to do Juni's missions to accomplish anything, including opening jump gates/holes.

What you can do, as Nighthound pointed out, is use Open SP. It's basically Freelancer without the storyline. Everything is open, and in some cases, you can choose where you start and what equipment/ship you start with. You can also play some of the mods. A lot of them give you the opportunity to be part of different factions, including pirate groups. The downside is that there isn't really a storyline.

The choice is yours. Have fun!

Edited by - njhockeyboy on 5/29/2005 10:05:54 PM

Thanks.

I tried to alter the initialworld.ini to unlock the gates, but couldn't get the right settings; so I either just didn't get it right, or it's interdependent on another file.

Couple questions...

Does the open SP 'lite' also require the mod manager? it doesn't specify that the way the larger open SP does, but when I extracted the lite files, I couldn't find the proper location for the script file.

Also, the link for the mod manager is bad (the one in the open SP download page), is there another? I searched the downloads section, didn't see it.

Thanks.

Edited by - MONOLITH on 5/30/2005 8:00:28 AM

Latest version of FLMM here

Thanks