1.Yes, Standard freelancer has all the shields disco has. They are much different in power though.
2. One of the ini files has that info, I don't know which one anymore. Check out The Lancer's Reactor for specifics on that. They might have it posted, and if not one of their members can definately help you out with all these types of questions. I would be very surprised though if there was not a full guide up again.
Hmm, where have I come? Why does it seem so familiar to this one?
I found the file it's a configuration file
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\DATA\CHARACTERS\NewCharacter
But It won't let me save it when I change it.
I can't find anything on Lancersreactor that helps.
I just noticed somthing,
Even though Freelancer 1.0 has all the shields we have in Discovery,
You can't buy some of them.
For example, The shield that is on my ship, shield01_mark08_hf, is in the st_equip file, as a shield, but not in the market_misc file, as an item that can be bought.
It's not a bad thing, but why are there things in the files that exist, but cant be gotten. (without modding)
The first thing, go into the properties of the file and make sure it is not read only, that is prolly the problem there.
The second thing, that is just how the game came. It was unfinished, because Microsoft was getting impatient with DA, who had a lot of different ideas, and went through 2 or 3 different versions before publishing.
Hmm, where have I come? Why does it seem so familiar to this one?
So then not only is Discovery a Expansion, but it also finnished the game?
At least in terms of things that were in the game files, but not in the game itself.
As for the read only, It's not read only and I have full permissions.