ignoramus requesting input

Fri May 13, 2005 12:51 pm by kee

Hey everyone
I'd like to start my first post on these forums with the obligatory compliments: This site is absolutely awesome. So many tutorials and explanations and mods and and and... This kind of stuff makes me want to really get back into the game.

Anyway - this is what I want to do, and my question at the end of everything is how should I go about doing it? I don't know if these things would be best accomplished in a mod (server side or client side or something I dont know about) or something else or if they are even possible.

My goal is to add some things to the game for my friends and I to have fun with. Some ideas I have been toying with are:

New systems (read tutorial on that, I think I can do it )
New ships (can I DL custom ships and add them to my own server without using someone's mod?)
New weapons (same question as for ships)
Some mods like 'warp drives'

Can these things all be done on just server side or does every player have to download something so we can all play together?

Thanks for your input and my apologies for the ignorance

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Fri May 13, 2005 8:58 pm by Why?

Everything you mentioned needs both a server and client side mods.

As to "warp" drives, well that depends what you mean. The speed of ships can be increased greatly, but the only way to travel through systems is jumpholes or jumpgates.

Fri May 20, 2005 5:47 am by Amedeus

Sounds like you want to have fun with friends, good idea. there's a lot of mods and servers out there, and yes mods need to be both server and client side. anyway here's a few possibilities for you.

1. Lan party,, only you and your friends this way you can set the tone of the game and have fun in an RPG environment, without having to worry about clans spoiling your fun. ( not all clans are good or bad by the way) simply find a mod or two that may interest you have your friends and thier PC's over and away u go.

note you will need a few tools , I suggest Ioncross Freelancer server (FLSO V )operator, Freelancer Mod manager (FLMM 1.3) the SDK 1.3 and Server patch 1.1

2.Start your own Internet Server if your friends can't bring PC's over same suggestions as above.

3. Find a ready to go server that is open to all and meet your friends online ( a lot of clans started that way u know ), some admins will even give u start up cash. there are many out there like Jolt, Epsilon 2.75 open rpg, Bobways Asylum51,and many TNG servers, ect there are hundreds out there.. most have websites that tell you rules and what mods u need .. some are listed with FLstat or post their rankings online so u can watch how your friends and others are doing, Some even host weekly events like races, hunts, combat, and Clan Wars

I hope some of this helps you and that u have a blast with your Lancer Experience

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