I'm Mark_Brown (Better known as Bellck) the leader of the Gas Miners Guild, part of the Freelance role which where you start is a start of a new exciting adventure, there's lots of opportunities and factions within Discovery.
These characters fly single-seater ships, exploring the planets and space stations of 48 (And Disco Added) known star systems. They also engage in dogfights with other pilots (player- and computer-controlled) to protect traders or engage in piracy themselves. Other player activities include bounty-hunting and commodity trading.
Us, the Gas Miners (Up in Sigma and Okinawa) - Past Honshu, are miners, we mine goods from astoriods in space and sell them on local stations to be then sold to factions who do commodity trading, or we simply haul it ourselves.
The reason i'm telling you all this, I think the GMG can be your first starter point in Discovery, as making money with us, doesn't come much easier. We can also give you a starter loan (providing you pay it back with using GMG characters then we'll happily grant you a few nice ships to get you on your trip, once you've finished with us, simply let us know and leave the faction and move on to your next. All you have to do, is sign up here > http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=13845
Part and parcel of this is welcoming new people to this community, not for the better of the GMG but if we can help new ones move on to different parts of the game i.e, become a police officer or a pirate then so be it. We'll happily help you out from start to finish and give you the insites and rules of the game. I personally have been here no less than 6 years, so lets face it. I know what I'm talking about here... Its your call though.
Either way, welcome to the community, see you in space!
Thk you all for the warm welcome. One of my concerns was whether the server is still active and it would seem the community is active and friendly.
Thk you Bellck. I will likely take you up on that offer. Mining and trading is going to be my primary activity on discovery so I think GMG will be a perfect fit once I finish up with single player. Loving it so far, they did a good job with the story.
Finally finished mission 9 after many attempts. I think my issue was I'm flying a light fighter hawk with a mix of guns and missiles and this ship seems to do better as a missile boat because its weak sheilds....unless my flying skills are bad lol. Loving the story so far but I have to admit I'm anxious to beat the game and start mutiplayer
Is this the case with ships in vanilla freelancer? Your better off to upgrade to the heavy fighters to withstand all the the fire power?