Food Rations.....

[DAnvilFan]

Alright, I'll explain the situation from my Point of View.

We started playing Freelancer about 18:00 -- 20:00 GMT yesterday. In-game, we got reports that Food was not being sold on Freeport 15 or Freeport 9. Our first assumption that this was a bug, our second assumption that this was another staged event like the one for Freeport 14.

First, we started to check news reports on various stations in Theta and Gamma, Crete included. We had a feeling that the Food restrictions on the Freeports were done because there was an event staged for Crete. So we, including OSI and various independant traders, traveled elsewhere, and bought food ---> brought it to Crete and sold it for 3,999. We checked the Crete news items -- nothing there.

We assumed that considering the Freeport 14 event, this was a similar case with Crete deseperately running out of food. After all, Crete being low on food is a typical RP plotpoint. Keep in mind, we had no idea about Shepardi's Birthday event because the news section was still not showing anything. I PMed Ivan, and assuming just what I said told him, "Crete is desperately in need of food supplies. Lets go!" Heck, I even told this to various TBH and HAF members and they made no comments regarding the shipments being restricted to Corsair allies.

Frank made a statement regarding the "ERR Out of Stock" error because we really had no idea what was going on and naturally, we wanted to find out. I for one, hadn't checked the forums until much later in the game.

EDIT: The reason why the news section was not visible is because you had to restart Freelancer to see it. A lot of us didn't know this. Believe me, if we knew that this was a Corsair restricted event, we wouldn't have abused it. Least of all, none of us would be telling anyone that Crete was out of stock on Food.