They are just children being childish. Common to all forums sadly.
As for the true, sadly yes. If you like flying and shooting then it has a lot for you, but evrything else does get repetative due to a lack of variety. If they had taken the time used for the campaign missions and put it into the universe instead it would have been much better.
You can trade, but in terms or markets and economics its a very simple model. There are no changes or fluctuations in prices, so trading is pretty simple and straight forwards. The skill ij trading comes down too -you guessed it- being good with your guns to manage getting the freighter through.
It says you can be a Cop, Army, Pirate ect. All this actually entails is doing missions for the factions and groups and the missions are all -you guessed it- fly to X point and kill all the ships.
At first it was fun, but after I have done about 100 missions all "go here shoot the ships" , it does get very repetative. You look at the Jobs board and ALL the missions involve flying to X point and shooting the ship. (Some shoot the floating gun platforms, which invitably involve shooting the ships there anyway). Its hard to look at them with any interest after a while.
Also almost ALL the jobs are in the same system or the same station. Its more a means to gather quick funds than really any kind of career path.
If you ever player Elite series you could take jobs from people in one system which involved going to other systems and transporting/stealing/recon running/passanger transport. You had variety and a sense that the universe was dynamic and interlinked.
In Freelancer the universe seems very staganant in terms of its political/economic/employment, there is little to nothing that will break the monotony.
You could go and blow up rocks (mining) but lets be honest that inveitably gets very dull as wqell after 20 times doing it, and always comes down to -you guessed it- shooting the pirate ships.
The Multiplayer side of this game could be good though because people can make things more dynamic, but the single player will get tiresome quickly unless you are a die hard shoot em up player.
On the issues that he is saying are untrue....
That helping a freighter convoy in mid space when its under attack actually benefits you at all.
Try it, try saving 10 mining corp convoys in a row, and you will see NOTHING to indicate it ever happened. Your rating with them does NOT change. They do not thank you for the help, they do not in most cases even aknowledge you are there. In fact they will often jump off into the gates and leave YOU fighting the pirates alone.
So there is NO reward for deep space interaction unless you plan to rob the freighters then the scanning and hail are usefull.
ONLY if you choose missions from their operatives (fly to X and destroy ships) will you chnage their opinion of you....
The short and long is that Freelancer is 80% shoot-em up in a big universe with 20% money making opportunities thrown in
Edited by - SabreWhore on 24-02-2003 19:28:57
Mon Feb 24, 2003 7:01 pm 
