I'm one of those people that played the game that came before Freelancer, Privateer, and liked that one, even if the graphics were quite simple.
Then I got Freelancer, played it WAY too darned much, downloaded mods for it (but mostly the Star Trek ones), and then set the game aside for a while because I wasn't that keen on multi-player PvP ness. (I played on a couple of servers that I have no idea what they were then, and got blown up too much - which wasn't a lot of fun for me.)
I was cleaning up my office and found the Freelancer Disk, put it back in, and replayed it again. Then I went looking for more mods for it, and found how big the Disco mod was. Installed it, played through it in SP and it was really cool. I was playing some SP, and then finally went to (and found) the server work-around.
That was a case of - whoa, look at all this stuff. Maybe that might be fun to try. So I started my first character - kept him rather low-key, did some missions, read some stuff on the forums, and learned what was going on. (One of my bad experiences on here was as a new trader, just learning, and forming into a convoy with someone for the run of prisoners from Edinburgh to New Berlin - and my ship flew into the planet because he swung wide.)
This is, other than poker, the only online game I play, and darned near the ONLY game I play, period.
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
