[request] System Modding tutorial

[Echo 7-7]

Have you checked out The Starport? It should have some modding tutorials.

Also, while FL Mod Studio is amazing (no one uses FLE any more because it's horrid and buggy), I'd recommend having a bit of an idea of what's going on behind the scenes; i.e. having a rough idea of what you're looking at when you open an INI in a text editor.

The best place to start is to create a brand new system of your own from scratch

PS. Get Notepad++ because it's much nicer than the stock Notepad that comes with Windows.
Also search for "Freelancer Modding Utilities 2011". It's a package with a whole lot of tools, most of which are somewhat outdated and overly specific so you're never going to use them, but it has a couple of things which are always useful. FLSpit is absolutely necessary for diagnosing bugs, in particular crash-to-desktop / freezing / black screen scenarios.
FLScan isn't in that package, but it's also a very comprehensive diagnostic tool.


Edit: Bear in mind that Freelancer systems do have some technical limitations pertaining to the number of jump links any one system can support, and possibly also the number of dockable solars. You'd have to check that though.

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