Yet another introduction topic

[Baby Bonnie Hood]

Hello. I'm actually already familiar with Freelancer, having played the hell out of it a few years ago (and now doing it again, only this time with this awesome mod). However, not only am I new to Discovery but I'm actually a total newbie to online Freelancer in general (I didn't, or actually couldn't, play with that feature back then). This sounds silly, but I'd like some answers to what happens when I press that Multiplayer button for the first time ever. How do I connect (and just in case, can it use a proxy?), how does character creation work, where do I start and what with, what happens when I get blown up, how do I chat, and other such silly basic stuff. Once I know that, perhaps then I can start discovering properly (RP, rules, ID's, factions... where to start?).....

On another note, I told myself I wouldn't go online until I finish the story again. But after a couple of days of nonstop Freelancing, I've hit a snag. I went mad taking out an entire Rheinland fleet (gunboats, cruisers, and a battleship), but I pulled it off eventually (without torpedoes, no less!). However, it'll take a miracle to get me out of this jam: a Nomad fleet with gunboats ahoy, and I have to destroy them all! Yeah right, not when the gunboats blow up my ship in one shot or so. I guess even if I had bought that $300k Anubis (odd, I thought that was free or low-price), it'd still be the same. As it is, my poor Barracuda stands no chance. Can't I just run to Toledo right away?

So I guess I could be going online sooner than later. Not when the story has become so... tough. Let's see... Outcasts being so tough early on, a Liberty battleship dock-killing me upon leaving Manhattan, the aforementioned Rheinland fleet, being expected to take out several Nomad gunboats... yeah, madness, Sparta, etc.