v4.80 Bugs Found

[TarNutz]

K, I'm a noob to the forum but not to Freelancer, apologies for any SNAFUs.

First off, the mod runs fine. No crashes or whatnot.

Problem: you'd better be careful to offload your tractor beam from your first ship, because that's it, baby! I've been nearly EVERYWHERE in Sirius Sector (including some of the Nomad systems in Omicron) and I've not seen a damn one sold anywhere: no tractor beams of any sort. So if you buy a new ship and you don't transfer your tractor beam (and every dealer tries to steal it) you're **** out of luck in vacuuming up those juicy pilots and cargoes. I remember in previous versions of Discovery that there were "Heavy" tractor beams available at Planet Toledo or somewhere: what happened?

It would be nice if the bases and jump holes popped up on the map once discovered in some of the Omicron Systems. I know that in the story missions in those systems "Nav Map Not Available" is all you get, but still: I'd be a lot more confident navigating with my map if I could be sure I'd find my way back home again. About all I can do is break out the graph paper and hand-draw the maps, and this is Freelancer, not Bard's Tale.

Maybe it would be a good idea to make the cops, Bounty Hunters, etc NOT scan each other? Occasionally I see them detect their own pilots and begin fighting amongst themselves. If they just didn't scan friendlies (like Pirates don't) it would make it a good thing to maintain a positive reputation with the cops for a smuggler. As it stands, being popular with the cops gets you nothing.

Any updates would be appreciated. Thanks all!

P-Tar