Welcome to Discovery. I'd really suggest coming online, since it's two completely different worlds in a sense: on Single player, you can run bretonian goods straight to Kusari, with no repurcussions at all. Try that online when I'm around, and you'll be fleeing for your life pursued by a bomber (which happens to be amazing at blowing transports to pieces as well as capital ships). Another advantage to being online and using our server is our so called Server Monkey, Cannon, who has managed to make huge numbers of useful console commands which make our lives easier, from /givecash, which allows you to transfer cash between any two characters, to /l, which makes whatever you type after it only appear to people within 15k of you, which is perfect for pirating without giving away the fact that you are doing so, or RPing without forcing uninvolved people to listen to you.
Whether you join or not, I hope that you enjoy the mod. It's slightly telling that I've been playing on this server for almost a year and I still don't fully know my way around all of the houses (in fact, Bretonia is the only one I know my way around fully)
Also, I'm open for PMs, although I doubt I'll be very good at answering them
Welcome! we need more people like you! you seem already set up as a non Lolwuting member of the community, and seeing as you mentioned modding yourself, you maybe one day make the Dev team!
Drink Cardi-Cola to stay healthy, read the rules and beware of Mon'star blah blah blah.....
These are some warm greetings here, such a pleasure reading:)I hope I can live up to the expectations, but I can assure you this (if I can assure anything at all) that I?m as far from the "I bbq u 4 greater lawl u lulznuub" mentality as I can possibly be. Just because its the Internet, it is no excuse for being not reasonable and not treating others as you normally would when you face them eye to eye.
What got me hooked here is the incredible tough setting, and apparently there are enough to uphold it to make the Sirius Cluster a place where ROLEPLAYING is written in capitals. I?m looking forward to that:)
Why I want to test out Discovery in singleplayer mode first is for several reasons;
I get used to Freelancer again! Its been years literally since I played more than half an hour through... every now and then I launched it just to roam one or two systems to get the feel again (and the feel of Freelancer is tremendous) but thats about it. I want to grow back into my old form with all the dirty tricks and memorized commodity prizes / tradelanes / jumpholes / whatnot like I had in my best time, and of course to adjust to the completely overhauled game that comes with Discovery.
As soon as I get the disk back I will have to play the regular Freelancer singleplayer mode so I can really distinguish the changes that have been made within the Mod, also storyline wise. I can?t remember every detail of the storyline anymore (was it Lord Hakerra or Hakeda?) so I want to start into it with refreshed memory.
I want to absorb the new, storyline based information and the new tensions/standings toward each faction with my own eyes and emphazise them while I play, so I will have an easier time to differ what I MAY do and what I may NOT do when I play online. The last thing I want is to take a wrong step in this tightly knit community, as I don?t want to spoil the fun for others just because I don't know from where the wind blows. I do the exact same thing with every other new Pen&Paper RPG System; I borrow the corebook and read through it myself so I can play my character the way it SHOULD be.
I can read and learn the rules here and catch up with the events while I'm adjusting to the new (meta)game before I let myself loose on the server... I mean seriously, it comes with a slight difficulty to see through all the various bits and pieces of information scattered across the forums. Opening a forum category and be punched in the face with a full screen of sticky postings is something that needs to be mentally digested if you know what I mean... :unsure:Last thing I want is to have a bad reputation sticking on me just because I wasn?t carefully prepared in the first place.
I will have time to plan the character I'm going to play, since I'm having four completely different concepts by now in mind... and probably there will be coming more, as soon as I get more attuned to the plotline of Discovery. Perhaps its a quirk or whatnot of mine, but I hardly ever play stereotypes. You will never see me start as a standardized bounty hunter or loyal defender of a House or ruthless pirate attacking every tradelane with the same frency as a dog chasing a car. Perhaps I BECOME such a thing later but I'm far away from starting as such. I put thought behind any of my concepts, and I hope they will be appreciated (or tolerated, for that matter) by the community, as I always bear in mind, that the more developed a character is, the more fun it is for oneself and the group. Or is it? :ylove:
Last but not least there are still truckloads of questions open, which will partly be answered by patient reading and partly be answered by poking people with PMs or planting walls of text in threads:D
I hope that sheds some light into my decisions:)
To hunt the prey is life,
to lose the prey is death,
to hunt the loss is insane...
The more I read on this board to get into the game, the more questions appear :blink:There are already several pages of offline written text and I'm not sure if I should wait to post all of it at once or to wait a little longer to seperate it in the appropriate sections... if that is even possible :shok:
I have the feeling I've already flung a member into coma with one PM :unsure:
To hunt the prey is life,
to lose the prey is death,
to hunt the loss is insane...