There a number of reasons . The main reason is Mr Bill and Microsoft do not want this of game on the market. Why would they cal it an RPG when its not?
Why wont they let you go around the system and earn a better ship?
No joystick? youve got to "Level up"and play for god knows long to get a better weapon. It seams that even all the folks that go to all the effort to create all these wonderful story MODS have ruin them with the insetion of a large slice of TUDE and say "you cant have that ship, your not at level 72538463549!!!" last
the cost. Bill just wont spend the need capital needed. Low $ and lots of ego is what Microsoft is all about!

Why are people still posting on this thread?

just found it- still working through the library...

People are still posting in this thread because they want to. Why do they want to? *shrugs*

Maybe because we got nothing better to do.

Man I just typed the longest post and mispelled my pssw. What happened when I hit the return button.....? The field with the message was cleared.

dammit!

@Blackhole: I'm the guy who were supposed to give you a graphics engines (very advanced, EVE Online-like graphics) but... I've not heard anything from you guys. Send me a mail at [email protected] and I'll help ya' out.

Remember this folks.
It doesnt have to be a super big budget production. Give credit to the originals where it's due, and royalties too. (remember there is real actors in the original)
"Night of the living Dead" was a cult classic made on a shoestring budget.
There is plenty of willing talent and people ready to weigh into the making of a sequel.
There must be a way to pick up where the original leaves off, espeically if you hit level 38. (NEXT MISSION) But it does not necessarilly require the reuse of certain voice characterizations..(some you cant anyway).
The concept of "cleaning out the house" and installing all new items is not impossible. It can be done. Even the creation of a mission driven type of story line that follows rumors and mission objectives.
For instance....the story picks up say....20 years later. Something new is happening and a new threat is coming.

Your thoughts.

-_-'

"It doesnt have to be a super big budget production"

This entire project is opensource. We will be entirely dependent on the community for new content. As for your ideas, try the stickied thread up there called "Freelancer 2 ideas"

For programmer's information, it is being coded in Visual Basic.net, although if you compile a DLL, we can use code from any .net language (VB.net, C#.net, C++.net, and J#.net). Please contact me at [email protected] or programexpert at [email protected]

And for all the people complaining about legal issues, please don't. We know what we are doing, the entire thing is opensource and free, and if Microsoft wants to sue us, darn. We don't need people telling us its illegal and we're gonna get sued. All in all, its very annoying

And i must say that a UTF access DLL would be very nice... *hint hint*

The game will be called "Openlancer".



EDIT: made it a thumbnail

Edited by - Blackhole2001 on 11/26/2005 8:21:56 PM

Openlancer (LOL)
just change the spelling a little on evrything, like you could call it "fr33lan$er 2". u could do the same with teh rest of teh stuffs 2, like you could say n0madz instead od nomads and u gits teh idea.

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Edited by - Zed Leppelin on 11/27/2005 1:51:16 AM

Edited by - Zed Leppelin on 11/27/2005 1:53:32 AM

Edited by - Zed Leppelin on 11/27/2005 1:54:03 AM

Zed: Doing that would just ruin the mood. I mean... "0mfg 0u7c457zz0rz 50071ng!!1 0mg!!111 hlp plz 0m g!!!111"... I think you get the point. No-one would like to play "fr33l4nc3rz0rz", because I think the community is more interested in the storyline than the spelling of everything...

Edited by - Orillion.net on 11/27/2005 5:12:12 AM

I'll be starting the programming sequence at college at the start of the new year. While I won't be getting into the game development classes I will have to spend some time with vb.net and C so if I end up with any useful skills and some spare time I'd be more than happy to help out.

@Zed Openlancer is Openlancer, and no i'm not going to be doing that because its lame. Lets see you laughing when we have a dynamic economy.

For those of you interested, our website is here. I much warn you though, the host is **** and crashes a lot.

Edited by - Blackhole2001 on 11/27/2005 9:53:33 AM

Edited by - Blackhole2001 on 11/27/2005 10:58:04 AM

Hmm, since there's nothing from publisher. We should name the next one as this:

Publisher: LancersReactor Team (whoever they is)
Product: Official Freelancer Expansion v1: The Nomad Invations (Change the expansion title as some how the alien liked)

Well not everyone will agree on this but that the best i can think of, OpenLancer is just some kind of mod name. Doesn't sounds that "Official" expansion. Well i was a modder before and i figured it is possible to rescript the missions and addon ships and texure sorts. And some hidden features that is not based in the scripts. Hmm, whatever it is but is nice to have a SERIOUS publisher to create this and sell as an Official Freelancer Expansion. Breath talking isnt it? xD

@ zed leppelin: stop using the word "teh" instead of "the". i can see you writing the sentence out in normal english and then changing "the"s to "teh"s trying to look leet.

um, blackhole, is there anything the general public who doesnt know any of the scripting and complicated stuff do to help you and make it a little easier?