Freelancer is still very active. Several servers out there still running. As to clans, check the clan forum for current ones looking for members.

Welcome to TLR.

a big welcome to TLR - just a few suggestions;
1. most people detest begging, but if they see a nooby they will gladly drop loot or gift money seemingly at random - esp if they see you struggling with entry level missions.
2. join your prefered server's forum and get active in it - you can get lots of help and quickly figure out the terrain clanwise.
3. ditch the "vanilla" 1.0/1.1 version of FL and get a mod; my personal favorite is evolutions - quality mods like this have more ships and new systems and even factions, so they are generally where you find lots of veterans who are uninterested in vanilla FL. not that there's anything wrong with stock FL besides being a little too easy/short and being restricted to fighters/freighters

Edited by - Cold_Void on 3/8/2006 6:41:37 PM

Restricted to fighters and freighters?? you mean to tell me with the mod i can fly cruisers and battleships??!!??

Impressive if its true. Are the ships fully usefull with hardpoints pertaining to what a ship of its class should have?
WOW

Is there a place on this or another site that has advice for players who are say looking to make money by either missions or by trading? like tips? My last question for now i guess would be is there a way for me to decipher locations to places.

if it says a wreck is in ****** system and you can find it in E3......what exactly is E3, like is there a grid fuction in the maps icon that i missed?, Its funny as i sit here and write i can think of more things to ask. I read somewhere that if im to look for jumpholes, wrecks or hidden bases look for rings... So by rings to they mean like saturns rings around a planet? or something smaller? Its just ive seen huge lists of things you can discouver but i havent found one at all even by accident. anyways any tips or advice is greatly appreciated.

thanks, Garret

don't forget the Search forums and the front-page search(searches actual website)- that is,if you really want a spoiler like a complete map of the FL universe w/ locations of jumpholes noted by grid references - yes the map has grid markers. there is a spoiler forum, that is the first place i would search for trade-tips(besides just asking a trader) - the common 'legit' route most people do is diamonds to new tokyo & niobium back(to new berlin), but if you are friendly/neutral with pirates you can buy illegal goods like artifacts and cardamine and smuggle them into new york.

as to Evo's hardpointing;it isn't expanded for capships, instead capships only use 1 class(capital) guns.this is really one of the things that bugs me(because a BS can equip 21 flak or missiles etc) and i'm adressing it in my own mod which is based off Argh's XML toolkit but unlocks additional capships/transports and more importantly reclasses turrets to free up 5 hardpoints/classes for cap guns;antifighter,guided(flak or missile),defense,primary, & gunboat gun/ship-to-ship torpedo. but evo has a huge community, whereas my mod is not yet fully stable & has a supporting community of about 11 people

Edited by - Cold_Void on 3/9/2006 12:49:32 PM

which are the mods that id get for my game? and whats Vanilla freelancer and Monkey Universe??

I looked in the download section for these but i couldnt find them.
Sorry to be such a hassle, main reason why im still asking questions here
I just want to get into the same loop as everyone else.

thanks

Garret

k i did some research and i found the monkey mod, i also got the freelancer mod manager. When i load it up with the monkey mod on and go to multiplayer no servers show up, says connecting to global server for like 10 minutes.

Not sure what im doing wrong.

Garret

Try disabling your firewall. A lot of questions you have can be found using our search engine here. We encourage visitors to use the tools available, but we're not so intense about it we can't help out here and there.

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No, its not the firewall *Dont have one enabled when i play anyways* but on the normal freelancer servers come up.