Not Newbie Friendly

[nerfherder]

Hi all, due to a very high ping, i dont get to play much, so when I come on, if the ping keeps me lagging, i usually just get off, and SP. the reason for that, is I live 10 miles south of town, in a valley, no cable. only phone lines, and I have satellite Internet. some days I can play for hours no problem, others, forget it.
On some days, I am able to play without lag, so I play the heck out of it. lol
I noticed trying to play the PVP server, it will kick me for High Ping, nice pretty green at that....

as for the afor mentioned SP missions of Freelancer, the farthest I have been able to get in it, is the hi jacking of the transport in Honshu.
right after you destroy the two missle platforms, everyone becomes friendly, even though they are red!
so when you kill a KNF, the game stops, says you killed a friendly.
I've tried getting by this, by not killing anyone, just zooming around and keeping my ship a hard to hit target, and still got the flag! Even though I killed no one!
Now this is playing the SP with Discovery running.
replace the DLL's and Vanilla SP plays fine for me. I keep a spare set of original DLL's in the Freelancer Folder in Program Files, in a Folder named that, 'Extra DLL's,

Name thing, I have had that problem even with the Vanilla Servers, I like the name 'rim runner', seems there are others who like it too, but there is no check for a duplicate name on some, on others there is.

PVP, I'm lousy at it, prefer to trade. the beauty of Freelancer. ya dont have to kill if you dont want to.
So if some NOOB killed ya, let the world know. seeing the responses here, It is not acceptable.

Speaking of EVE, been playing there some also, a 14 day free trial been going for a month or so now, and there is a clan there named 'NERF', i have a character named 'Nerf Herder', and couldn't get thier system to take that name, now i know lol.
it is unerving to see 40,000 players on line at the same time! and with over 5000 solar systems to explore. a bit steep in price for me at $14.99 a month to play. but they must be doing something right.
yours scruffy

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I play on EVE, name is Zak Vanlor, currently i fly everything T1 Gallente and some Minmater ships. Also flying the Hulk, (massive ship built to mine)
I am in Gallente Mining and manufacturing, a small player corporation centered on the industries.
been playing now since December 2007

BUT: i love playing Freelancer, and my current character is the Finitey's End.