I cannot believe I just SAW that!
POSTED BY: Fremdfirma
UPDATED: Saturday, June 19, 2010 22:00
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No, No. I was trying to find out how to get the story missions started, I did not enable open sp, and it starts you off in Omicron Lost with a Starflyer and a couple liberty justice guns.. I don't know what to do.. I can go to liberty space, but only via alaska.. and thats the only way back out too. because of that I know its in story mode.. I just don't know how to get the story started..
~Bandit1198~
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Things I've done lately in the Sirius neighborhood:
I had bought one of those red transports from the Star Wars 'verse. (Not from the movies, but there were 3 of them in the X-Wing Alliance demo.) Cool, 12 turret slots! Decided to try my luck at the Nomads again. Turns out, I can handle them pretty well (in Omnicron Alpha and THAT *system through the jump hole in the cloud, in the middle of the Outcast graveyard).
My second trip into THAT system, I ran smack into a frakkin' Nomad battleship (with gunship and fighter escorts)! Holy SHIT! Well, that fight didn't last long. (Not really a fight, mostly me running the hell away!) Damn thing looked like a GIANT, transparent, blue whale, with squid friends. I've learned to avoid them now.
As scary as that battleship was (it's just a game), jumping into Omnicron Major was worse. The part that freaked me out the most --besides the dozens of fighters wanting to divvy up my body parts-- was how detailed and close the system backgound looked. It felt as if I space-jumped into a pocket dimension or the inside of a really big space station (with it's own sun?). It was probably just a bit clausterphobia (even though I'm not clausterphobic), being used to open space and then feeling suddenly crowded.
Wow, them Nomads make for good eatin' though, at 28k each. Managed to kill 1009 of 'em, plus 9 gunships, before getting bored of it. (Lots of trips to Malta and back.) If I'd kept going and filled up my whole hull, it would have been worth over 100mil.
Umm, well, I guess I peaked.
I'm almost up to 200mil self worth. I've had an Advanced Train for a good while now. Been looking everywhere for a replacement ship, and none of the liners and crusiers have more cargo space than me. Seriously? 5000? Read in the Readme, that's as high as it goes. I figured the higher the cost, the more payload. Oh well.
I tried 4.85 just for the hell of it. Pros & cons.
Pros:
-More ships.
-More Systems.
-New colorful commodity icons.
-Some new turret styles.
Cons:
-Increased time of disrupted trade lanes. (Grrr.)
-Removed New York - Magellan shortcut. (DAMN!)
-Moved the Sigma 13 jump hole in Berlin, from right by a trade lane in the middle of the system to the corner of No and Where!
-All the commodity locations have been completely mixed about! Very few of my bread and butter routes remained.
-One of the trade lane rings between P. Leeds and Stokes Smelter is in ruins, shortening the lane. It ain't much, but it's an intentional annoyance.
Verdict: Yeah....I'll stick with 4.84.
*(Again, all of the new peoples, places, and objects in my Discovery install are blank. No names, no descripts. Weird. Wasn't much better with 4.85.)
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Could you maybe be missing a required Font ?
Or video driver incompatible with the font being used ?
Just stuff I thought about, on that.
And yeah, I didn't mention the Trains cause I liked the Firefly, it's WAY more maneuverable and handy, less likely to get hung up on docking, and 3800 cargo is nothin to sneaze at.
But if you like pushin the heavy iron, which I do, have ever since the army let me drive an M35 Deuce, and don't care that it handles like a quaalude-addled whale, the Train is your bread and butter for volume runs, besides, you got ENOUGH guns on it you can just put it on auto, switch to turret view and see them off without too much trouble - only thing missing is a big confederate flag on the back (and you could prolly edit one in if ya really wanted to), a can of miller lite in a window hook cupholder, and bad country music blaring out overtop the CB radio....
Space Truckin, at it's finest.
"Durned Nomads, bad enuff dey gets in the way, but stickin to da windshiel an ruinin mah wipers jest pisses me off!"
-Frem
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*looks in the Discovery folder, in the FLMM mod folder*
I'm seeing four XML files called: goods, items, rogue, and script. Should those files be in another folder or are they OK?
Maybe it'd work like it's supposed to if I had a computer less than a decade old. :-(
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I believe I have figured it out, Rahl.
Try this.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894491/en-us
Seems to have something to do with font files over 3k and where they're located, but whatever, it's at least worth a shot.
I think it's definately a font problem, though.
-F
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Microsoft must hate me for using their product.
I tried four times to load that link, and each time "Not Responding".
So close, yet so far away.
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Quote:
To resolve this problem, copy the following fonts from the Freelancer CD to the Fonts folder in Microsoft Windows:
* AGENCYB.TTF
* AGENCYR.TTF
* ARIALUNI.TTF
To do this, follow these steps:
1. Insert the Freelancer CD into the CD drive.
2. Right-click My Computer, and then click Explore.
3. In the Folders pane on the left, locate and then click the CD drive\Fonts folder.
4. While you press and hold down the CTRL key, click the following three files that are listed in the pane on the right:
* AGENCYB.TTF
* AGENCYR.TTF
* ARIALUNI.TTF
5. On the Edit menu, click Copy.
6. Locate and then double-click the C:\Windows\Fonts folder to open it.
7. On the Edit menu, click Paste.
8. Restart the computer.
Yes, Microsoft sucks - but then, they didn't actually make the game, just slapped their name on it and took all the money and credit (regardless of what the contract said) - and that's why most game companies with any sense won't make games for em, just ask the folks who made Oddworld...
-Frem
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Well, it was a good effort. My computer already had those fonts. I even replaced them, just in case. No changes as far as I can tell. That's one less thing to try.
Yes, I know the difference between a developer and a publisher. I was actually refering to my MS Win98, using MS IE6, to view an MS website. How silly of me to expect that to work. 
As for the whole space truckin' thing: Never been much for the Cornfeddie flag. I'll just stick with the Independent/Browncoat flag. Or possibly a Rebel Alliance one. Plus the mandatory dustflap girls (not too much mud in freezing outer space). Instead of beer (I CAN drink, I just don't want to) I'll have Dr. Pepper, for nostalgia purposes (the first time I played Baldur's Gate 2, I drank DR. P). And you can't go space truckin' properly without Deep Purple.
[rant]Ugh, hate country music. If it's from the 70's, rockibilly type stuff (Or Taylor Swift. She's so damn cute!) it's OK. I have a special loathing for Alan Jackson. I just hate songs that promote/perpetuate mediocrity.[/rant]
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