Hallo allemaal!

[Ruud]

Hallo allemaal, (hello you all)

My name is Ruud. That is both my nick name as my real name. Why no nick name? Various reasons but most probably because I never found one that I liked :)

I don't play many computer games. The ones I still play from time to time: Doom, Hexen, Heretics, Duke Nukem 3D, Command & Conquer, Battlefield 1942 and FreeLancer. Am I a good player, I don't know. One day I set up a LAN play for BF 1942 and my then 15 year old son hit me so many times and so hard I still don't know what excatly happened. Quite a frustrating day then :( But OTOH I'm much better in C&C :)

After playing FL some years ago I searched the Internet for its sequel (that never came). Instead I found some mods. One of them was the Star Trek mod. I remember hours of trading to collect the money so I could buy one!.
Some month ago I decided to play again to find out I accidently deleted all mods. A typical example how a misfortune can turn into luck: looking for mods I ran into Discovery!

What do I want to do here? I think I will stay a freelancer to begin with and decide during that time what faction I will join. That is, if they want me :)

About myself: I'm 53 years young, used to be a naval officer on submarines and fregates (a possible advantage here?) and I'm now an engineer in computer electronics. Hobbies: old computers (mainly Commodore) and my two old motorbikes: Jawa 350 (1975) and Moto Guzzi V50-III NATO (1985, original army bike). Beside that I have a lovely Polish wife and two sons.

And now up to the HELP section because I have a major problem: I haven't any idea yet how to log on to the server ???

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Kind regards / groetjes, Ruud Baltissen
www.Baltissen.org