With that kind of speed, you can just fly over asteroid fields.

eagleone, have you even begun to consider how extremely large these systems are? As far as I can tell, they are atleast twice the size as a normal system based merely on X-Y axis. On a normal system, there is no Z axis in use. So it is 1x1x1, coming out as 1. Now with only twice as large as normal ...

I must also say it is hell to navigate on those 3d systems as well. What looks like a quick dash, is a huge journey on the Nav Map. We aren't fortunate enough for there to be a 3d holographic-style navigation map in Freelancer. (Maybe if FL2 ever comes out there will be one.) Finding jumpholes is ...

I'd be wary of any .exe installs. Vector might've gone insane and tried to destroy all games just for a bit of fun.  :P (Obvious joke in case vector gets offended.)

The answer;

[quote="gav";p="159428"]the servers incoming port has been changed

in case anyone else is having trouble, and uses the direct connection short cut
you need to edit your port number so it points to :2303

e.g.

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\EXE\Freelancer.exe" -s85.14.217 ...

The main concern is, who would buy freelancer now anyway? It's an outdated game, and there are plenty of other possibilities. Heck, when I found it, it was entirely by mere chance. I happened to be looking around, and found one of the last ones. It interested me, despite the crappy graphics, I ...

I feel the levels of spam in this topic will rise until it is eventually locked by strail. Ah well.  :P

Yes, I wonder what's in the new mod. Maybe that nomad gate that leads to itself in tempest will be useful.

They could simply write software that mimics the Global Server software. However, I suppose that hostname is going to be a problem. It is too bad that we can't silently force it to divert traffic to some other place without MS learning of it.

Is it theoretically possible that lancers reactor can make a server with the same IP of the global server, once it shuts down? And then run either the same or similiar global server software, so that it will never truely go down?

Fuel would be an entirely bad idea. It would be too much of an annoyance. Do you really want to stop over and over, losing money the entire time as you're simply trying to hang out and PvP? That doesn't sound fun to me.

[quote="Frobozz";p="158378"]Such complexity isn't possible without changing the game engine and that's not possible as M$ keeps the IP.
Cloaking and even talk about cloaking is banned on most servers, for a good reason. You want unbalanced gameplay?
As I said, only cloak I can support would have no ...