OKay - hope you got biniq as this is coming quick and fast!
Go into your Freelancer folder, to the data folder, to the equipment folder, and then open up a file called market_ships.ini with the biniQ tool.
Now this lists all ships for sale. First thing you see is the title for bases:
This is like:
[BaseGood
base = Br01_01_base
Now basegood means that it is describing a base entry, and the goods that are sold there. The base = is like the base is/equals in life.Tonight the base will be............New london. This is the code the game uses. To work out what is what, i suggest you get Subxeros miscillaneous database. It has all this in for you.
So, Br01_01_base is the first base in New London (Br01)
manhatten is Li01 okay (system)
the Li01_01_base means the first base, so Li01_02_base is the second etc up to 15 for manhatten (some are storyline only).
Now then - after that is what is sold there. Now then, they all start with
marketgood =
This means the thing they sell there is...............
This is followed by the nickname of the package for the ship (as in the ship and what you get with it, including engine, scanner, tractor beam, thruster etc etc),
so the package is the whole thing. The easiest way is just to learn what they are, to do this you need to look in the other ini files. Basically - Li signifies liberty, Br = bretonia, Ku= kusari, Rh = rheinland. Now then, when you see this:
re_package
It means rheinland elite (Valkyre) - trust me, you need to learn stuff! LOL. Anyways, the ship packages are done like that, with a load of numbers. there are two variables for these numbers, which are this:
x, -1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1
and:
x, -1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1
NOw the first set means it sells, the second set means it doesn't okay? Its just that way right. THe x is any number between 0 and 38, as this signifies the level you must be to buy it.
So - at this point, work out what ship you are after, then work out what the numbers mean, stick em together and bingo - your flying different ships.
Ie, for Manhatten:
[Basegood
Base = Li01_01_base
Marketgood = lf_package = 2, -1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1
Marketgood = lfr_package = 1, -1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1
marketgood = bf_package = 2, -1, 0, 0 , 1, 1, 1
Now then - which sells and which don't?
the first two sell, the last one don't. Change over alll but the first numbers to set the other ship to sell - eg
[Basegood
Base = Li01_01_base
Marketgood = lf_package = 2, -1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1
Marketgood = lfr_package = 1,-1, 0, 0 , 1, 1, 1
marketgood = bf_package = 2, -1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1
Now the lfr_package doesn't sell there, and the bf package does - simple eh?
By the way, for that list it is:
Patroit
Rhino
Cavalier
Good luck - keep in touch!
Look back through the threads though, this has been covered alot of times now, as have many many of the other topics you might ask!