How to discover jump holes without losing hair

Thu Mar 13, 2003 6:18 am by AlreadyDead

Hi everybody,
If you play Freelancer like I do, you want to find the quickest route from point A to point B. This is a method you can employ to find the hidden bases and jump holes quickly and easily.
When you first enter a new system, turn on the Nav map, then switch to "patrol" mode. Start entering trade routes, and check the Nav map often. Switch between friendly, neutral and hostile mode. You may notice patterns.
For example, if you notice that several patrol paths originate from the same empty point in space, youve found either a) jump hole or b) hidden base. Make your Nav map give you the quickest route, and check it out.

Here is an example. All I could see were these concentrated paths before I visited the epicenter - wala - rochester base.
http://www.culturecombat.com/pathmethod.jpg

I hope this saves some of you people time and headache.

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present” (Abraham Lincoln).

Edited by - AlreadyDead on 13-03-2003 06:25:10

Thu Mar 13, 2003 7:53 am by Legal_My_Deagle

hmmmm your ideas intrigue me. i would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Thu Mar 13, 2003 8:07 am by Marco

Makes a lot of sense to me...Good thinking.

Thu Mar 13, 2003 9:44 am by Balthazar

Good work AD,

This has been mentioned before, but its always nice with a illustration.

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Thu Mar 13, 2003 9:48 am by AlreadyDead

No problemo.

Thu Mar 13, 2003 11:50 am by RaK

hey, as great the idea is.... you'll find some systems its still quite hard to find, and some patrol routes will lead you close to dangerous places

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You just washed up here or something?

Thu Mar 13, 2003 8:05 pm by AlreadyDead

Yeah, I've been lead to a couple Hacker bases out in the middle of nowhere. It's still better than just flying around randomly.

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present” (Abraham Lincoln).

Thu Mar 13, 2003 9:37 pm by dmwnz

you'll find some systems its still quite hard to find, and some patrol routes will lead you close to dangerous places

Well, nothing ventured, nothing gained. It's a big bad universe out there and if you wanted a comfortable life you shouldn't have become a freelancer now, should ya :-)

Thu Mar 13, 2003 10:43 pm by stryx

Or you could have stayed in Liberty space where it's (relatively) safe.

I just tried to enter a system full of angry Outcasts in Sabres and me just sitting in a Hammerhead with level 8 and level 7 guns and a level 7 shield. Outch. That was no fun.

Edited by - stryx on 13-03-2003 22:43:40

Fri Mar 14, 2003 12:28 am by akito927

ohh thats how you guys find things in new systems... I've been wondering how you guys find them so quickly! lol i'd just fly blindly to certain areas.. lol.

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Fri Mar 14, 2003 5:30 pm by Zaphod2

Worm holes are a sore point with me. When I was in Bretonia somewhere, I got the usual message from Juni after I gained a level - go to Cambridge I think it was. I was "up north somewhere" where I'd discovered a wormhole to Cambridge - lucky me I thought - naively!!!

Flew over to afore-mentioned worm hole, tried to dock with it, and ended up halfway back to sheffield??? (wasn't paying much attention when docking) Hmmm... tired it again and it wouldn't dock - "access denied" or some such, denied by what? I thought - the worm god !!! ok thinks I, maybe I don't "dock" with a wormhole, so I tried flying into it...... nope, didn't work either.

Eventually gave up after about 15 minutes and took the long way round through 3 systems and about a dozen lanes. Found out why I couldn't use it later when it showed up in the main story as a plot convenience - OPEN UNIVERSE MY A...!!! $£#*& $%@*& makes me mad it does !!!!!!

Fri Mar 14, 2003 7:45 pm by AlreadyDead

early on in the game the wormholes are closed. It does that to keep you from flying into very hostile areas before you are ready.

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present” (Abraham Lincoln).

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