Crazy idea but...

[Infernias]

*probably an old topic but i figure i'd just explain what i know about it*

The Idea of dockable player-flown capital ships IS physically possible, however, it is highly impractical

the reason: if the ship who is "dockable" is in any way destroyed or messed with etc, everyone involved (the dockable player, and those who are docked with him/her) has their freelancer install PERMANENTLY messed over. as in, to get FL working on your computer again, you need to buy another CD and install another copy of FL.

i know this because i heard from a modding friend of mine who heard some guys actually managed to acomplish this, but with that horrible side affect.

the only forseeable way around this problem is if microsoft releases the freelancer source code for modders to look at and find a way around said problem; but lets face it, an icecube has better odds in hell than the modding community has of ever having MS release the FL source code.

so, as igiss said, this is "impossible", but i figured i would just help explain why.

although i must agree with the others in this thread, the concept is highly appealing

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