Help a new pilot!

[Tachyon]

Firstly, welcome to Freelancer !

Now thats quite a list you have there.

1. If you want to fly a Battleship or equal, right now, there are no licencing things, you just need the money.
RP wise, as a newcomer it may be a little bit hard RPing a BS, but you will get to it

2. If you want to join a faction, it gets more complicated:

2.1 Select your faction : You want to join an official faction, each of them has their own policies, rules and diplomacy, try to join the one, which you think it would give you the most fun

2.2 Recruitment: Each official faction has a recruitment page here on the forums, finding it is no problem at all.
In all cases ( I think ) it is described what you need to do in order to apply

2.3 Wait: Wait untill you are accepted or rejected; don't get demoralised, if you don't make it in your first run, try again later, when you think you improved your abilities and what is needed to join the faction

2.4 Pro and contras: I can't tell you the pro and contra, really, everyone has an own opinion of that, though I really suggest joining a faction, they will make your way into Freelancer MP more easy

3. There is a guide for the installation of the discovery mod posted by the almighty admin 'Cannon' HERE

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