Firefly vs. Privateer
POSTED BY: Victor54
UPDATED: Friday, February 3, 2006 18:06
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Your Dream has come true... I won't lay claim to what I didn't create, (been slightly busy building models for a few other games) but here it is... enjoy... http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/Download/Download.asp?ID=2017
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Thanks f224ever! I got them down, and as soon as I get freelancer I'll post on how good it is (unless someone beats me to it 
Explode?! I don't wanna explode!
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YOU ARE A GOD.
This is one of the best Freelancer mods I have ever seen! And it works on multiplayer! Wow! Thanks for making a Browncoat's dream come true.
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Alrighty! I did get Freelancer for X-Mas and unfortunatly for me I didn't install everything for the mod correctly :( I forgot to install the FLMM manager. So What I can buy is a completly BLUE (no textures) Firefly! (kinda funny) and the one thing it doesn't say in the downloads that It says on the game is that you have to be at Level 20 to even buy it! I hope that is something that my haphazard and missing things upload brought about but other than that I looks really cool to be able to fly Serenity in Freelancer!
Explode?! I don't wanna explode!
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I agree, "Firefly" would make an outstanding computer game. As to why no one in the gaming industry has tried this, I have no clue.
I had "Privateer", but it wouldn't install on my modern system (don't have DOS, so that certainly doesn't help). (Also, I never understood how games which ran on a 50Mhz, 50MB, 4 RAM system, would not run on a 2.6Ghz, 120GB, 256 RAM system.) And there was another early game which was very similiar, called "Protostar" (another DOS game).
And, yes, I have "Freelancer", too. And while "Freelancer" has a billion-times better graphics than its two predecessors, I thought the earlier versions were better (as far as gameplay).
BTW, does anyone remember "Terra Nova". Had some of the best gameplay I've ever experienced (especially relating to how you could command your fellow team-mates). To this day, I haven't seen better team-mate interaction than "Terra Nova".
To my thinking, "Firefly" could take the best of both "Privateer/Proto Star/Freelancer" and "Terra Nova", and be one shiny game.
Unfortunately, I'm not a gaming executive (or even a programmer). Just a lowly school-bus driver.
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Try Dosbox to run old dos games on Windows 2000/XP.
Here is the link: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
A game in the firefly 'verse? That would kick-ass.
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Originally posted by Cartoon:
Also, I never understood how games which ran on a 50Mhz, 50MB, 4 RAM system, would not run on a 2.6Ghz, 120GB, 256 RAM system.
Because the former is 16Bit, the latter is 32Bit or even 64Bit. When we make the move to 64Bit proper most if not all current 32Bit games simply won't run. It's also likely that older DOS based games require an old fashioned expanded memory model, such as EMS, that is simply not supported by Windows.
Most DOS games won't run under modern 32Bit windows because it is so different internally to the old DOS based systems. It's almost like trying to play a playstation1 game on an XBOX...
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
Remember, the ice caps aren't melting, the water is being liberated.
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Thank, Korinu. I'll give that a try.
Thanks to you, also, Citizen. Although, most of your response was Greek to me. 
Yeah. I sort of understand what you're saying. You'd think better, more-powerful systems would run little, dinky games though, wouldn't you? Well, maybe not.
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Ok, I went and uninstalled everything and reinstalled everything the way it should have been. And the ship is still blue in the dealers screen, BUT I went into the ins? file and changed the level value (just so my level 5 could buy it) and purchased it and from then on the textures are on the ship and everything is shiny! (I may go in and change the armor value higher too) NOTE:changing the level value didn't make the textures finally appear, it was just so I could buy the ship.
Explode?! I don't wanna explode!
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Hi! I've been lurking here for a while and just noticed this thread. WC Priv is one of my favorite games of all time too!
I've been playing a mod for Vegastrike called Wing Commander Universe.
[Wing Commander Universe Alpha 0.2] http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=52085#files
It's based directly off the Privateer Remake (you can even play most/all of the Priv campaign still) but added to it are many many ships of the entire WC series PLUS instead of being limited to just the Gemini sector, the entire known WC Universe is there -- you can jump from Sol to Kilrah!
Anyway, with a few tweaks it Role Plays like Firefly nicely. Heck, you could even pretend the Kilrathi are Reavers! Download it, install it, play it for a few minutes, save your game. Now to get things RPing:
1) Your save game file (in the privateer.001/save dir) can be opened & edited in Notepad. The first numbers you see is your money. Up that to something obscene like 999999999. Tell 'em a rich aunt died on Hera.
2) Back in the game, equip that fei oo Tarsus with a jumpdrive and go somewhere with a better rep, like New Detroit.
3) Buy yourself a Drayman. It's a medium-sized cargo ship. Slow and ungaingly tho. We'll fix that! Buy the best stuff for it to taste. Save the game.
4) Exit the game and go to the privateer.001/serialed_xml dir and go into your savegame's title dir. Open the "drayman.stock.csv" file in Excel. Ooh, stats! Shiny!
Now tweak some stats. The first I recommend is Moment_of_Interia, set it to 50. The ship'll handle more like Serenity/a heavy fighter than an asteroid. ;) Then things like the Afterburner Speed need to be upped. I like a Speed of 500 and Afterburner to 2000 (it'll take a while to accel to that tho). You might want to up your Armor all around and Hull too. All to taste.
5) Open the save game file in the Save dir and decrease your money to something reasonable -- I like to be nearly poor for effect. ;P
6) Play! You might notice that tweaking some stats means you can't buy/sell certain related parts, but that's ok, you can always retweak things as your playing goes on.
You can just as easily do this to your Tarsus or a Galaxy, but the Drayman is comparable in size to a Firefly. Plus a Drayman can carry a couple of small fighters! (buy 'em in the Commodity Exchange screen, launch them in-flight with CTRL+X, use CTRL+A to say "Attack my target", and call 'em back with CTRL+L).
Also, in the setup screen I have No Specular Lighting set (perfect, not plasticy looking ships), and sfx/music set to My Effects Only. I play the Firefly TV show soundtrack mp3s in WinAmp while I play WCU -- perfect Firefly ambience! (in-flight push the "." key to up the sfx)
One more tidbit, at pirate bases (like @Pentonville), you can get jobs that are "kill this Confed ship" and "smuggle this to here" which was NOT in the orig WCPriv. 
Wish I could rename all instances of "Confed" to "Alliance"...
So, have fun with this, lemme know if any of you try and and/or come up with something better. =)
--Diavo 
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