Starting Systems

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I'm not sure if the starting system has anything to do with it. Most new people have the urge to go out and explore the surrounding systems, especially the ones who have never played Discovery before. They want to see what has been added to Freelancer. For some reason, they all gravitate back to Liberty. Wish I knew why. It just seems to be one of those weird phenomenons just doesn't make any sense.

I think one reason they gravitate back is survivability. I'm up to five characters now and am in about my 4th week on the server in-game. I've done a restart /X using most of the options the command allows. While I realize that many veterans will restart /X and then feed money to that character for ships, those that are new probably don't have that kind of money yet.

As an example, last week I created a character and did a restart /outcast. About the same time I had a friend asked if I had a character near the freeport in the next system over to do an item hold while they created an outcast too. Well, the bare bones CSV surived beyond the Malta docking ring about half way to the jump hole what seems like five times before getting pwned by the NPC's. I ended up transferring about 20 mil to the character from another one, and bought a decent ship/weap combo on Malta, and then went for the meeting at the freeport.

The NPC's are easier to deal with in the Liberty systems and harder as you explore about, or at least it seems that way to me. (I'm on summer break and have been on a 3G wireless connection all week, and for the next few days will be on a sattelite connection).

I did, however, see a level 8 starflier passing through Omega 7 yesterday as I was on my way from New London to get a Dacite for my just restarted BMM character. (I applied to my first player faction and am getting the character ready).


- Jeni

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