Who is still around from Discovery's golden age?

[Hidamari]

Top right of this... I thought this was Freelancer not sonic the hedgehog... flipping Miles Prower...

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aaah the glory days....






Absolutely nobody with a brain can claim the balance back then was worse than it is now.

returning to .85 with the advancements that have been made in a lot of other areas (art (new ships, old ship redesigns, retextures & rescales), system design, trade bonuses, npc mission bonuses) would be the most immediate way to bring back so much life to this place.

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[Kauket]

Absolutely nobody with a brain can claim the balance back then was worse than it is now.

Nostalgia is consuming you. You are viewing it through rose tinted glasses, everything was hyper out of balance back then. I don't want Sabre + Kraken meta ever again.

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[Bootsiuv]

I played. It was gud. Is CR still a thing? They had gunz. Also gud.

Thanks for letting me share with you this evening. This was nice.

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[Kauket]

I played. It was gud. Is CR still a thing? They had gunz. Also gud.

Thanks for letting me share with you this evening. This was nice.

There 'are' factions - but they're incredibly inactive and farm for the tracker timer at the last moment, like all the others on life support. You could probably still hook up with CR players.

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[Hidamari]

Absolutely nobody with a brain can claim the balance back then was worse than it is now.

Nostalgia is consuming you. You are viewing it through rose tinted glasses, everything was hyper out of balance back then. I don't want Sabre + Kraken meta ever again.

No because ive been saying the same things for the entire time more or less since things started going down hill around here.

Sabre Kraken meta had activity so yea you really do want that again. you REALLY DO want there to be dozens of criminals that think they're invincible, that needs dozens of law enforcement to stop them, which needs dozens of traders et al to produce all the ships.

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[MorningMan]

Hey, I lost most of my memory & of course switched numerous pc's from back then, but I vaguely remember playing a corsair from the benitez familia. Before all the player bases and such. Good old times with bomber runs with my hermanos on Britania trade lanes or Outcast gunships.

I keep coming back every now and then, but only for a short period of time. Nostalgia is over the roof though when you roam these forums, can be quite a trip.

[Kauket]

Absolutely nobody with a brain can claim the balance back then was worse than it is now.

Nostalgia is consuming you. You are viewing it through rose tinted glasses, everything was hyper out of balance back then. I don't want Sabre + Kraken meta ever again.

No because ive been saying the same things for the entire time more or less since things started going down hill around here.

Sabre Kraken meta had activity so yea you really do want that again. you REALLY DO want there to be dozens of criminals that think they're invincible, that needs dozens of law enforcement to stop them, which needs dozens of traders et al to produce all the ships.

Let us utilize that logic then.

Why are you upset at Bombers being too good at killing transports? Surely it should encourage people to be on escorts, police, etc?



The matter of fact is, there's simply not enough people. Making stupidly OP things is how you kill the game. Malicious aces just log them and just circlejerk the population to death.

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[Hidamari]

Making stupidly OP things is how you kill the game.

considering I played through the Kraken Sabre meta, compared to how the game is now that was absolutely nothing.

also overpowered fighters dont invalidate as much of the game space as overpowered bombers do. because they simply do not have the solo pressure to punch above their weight class.

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[Kauket]

Making stupidly OP things is how you kill the game.

considering I played through the Kraken Sabre meta, compared to how the game is now that was absolutely nothing.

also overpowered fighters dont invalidate as much of the game space as overpowered bombers do. because they simply do not have the solo pressure to punch above their weight class.

Solo krakens did. All you had to do was box, and do insane amounts of DPS. That was why it was so busted. Because of the speed and damage. We don't need to go back to the phantom times of insane damage weapons.

Also, for the record, bombers can be killed if they're alone since they need to get in 500m to fire but in a pack, obviously you're going to have a bad time. EMP Flaks are just essential for countering them.

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[Bootsiuv]

I thought about coming back so I logged in and tried trading for a spell.

Place felt like a ghost town compared to the days of hitting refresh refresh refresh every weekend.

A big part of the lure was feeling like you were logging into a living world.

22 players a living world does not make.

I don't think they're is much hope in bringing it back at this point. Freelancer is simply too dated now, and this mod is a full decade on from it's peak days.

Sad but true.

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