Hello, Friends I got inspired to start this by This post from Chuba I know his question was about PVP, but as I began to wrote me Reply to his Question I Started to Remember all the Good and Bad times that I had with this game. All the Laughs and sometimes also the Tears that I shed. Sometimes this Game was a Rollercoaster and gave me a Wild Ride, and sometimes it was a Calm Journey between the Stars. With this, I would Like to ask you to share your Best Storys about the Game. Tell us why you are still here, what Motivates you to play Disco, what were your Greatest Moments in your Eyes, or what were your Greatest Losses. Share your Storys with us and let us be part of your Journey between the Stars.
I think my greatest moments was my character's time as administrator at FP11, though with Ouroboros' miraculous rising membership count (Thanks frens for joining up!) I've a feeling a second wind is on the horizon.
My biggest loss though? Losing the Harpies since Jadon doesn't play disco anymore (though admittedly with the direction the faction's going it may be for the best..)
Making a character for a simple arcade game just to get too attached to their stories shaped through adventures with other people.
it's difficult to say goodbye to characters made literal 15 years ago.
When the story background becomes more than just something you made up it really does hold more meaning.
It's always fun to reminisce with people from back in the day about these stories.
It's also nice to use all that background that shaped the character to meet new ones.
2014 i was new to this mod, didnt understand much but had played the original freelancer way to much.
Was flying my transport around rheinland, i think, and a certain img leader at that time just grabbed me of th lane and basicly said"bang, your in img now kid".
Also simply playing, listning to people talk over skype( yes i`m that old ) made my english knowledge increase tenfold.
My biggest loss was seeing the friends i made along the way vanish, never to be seen again.
Everyone will tell you small lies, except the people you love, who will tell you large ones.
It's hard for me to point at any one Big Moment. The entire first 6 months of my time playing the game again starting last January were electrifying, though. Actually, thinking about it now, pulling second place in the Dublin race event last March after hyping it up to everyone I met was pretty damn fun, all in-character. Huge gathering, great time. (RIP the Hood)
Biggest loss, uuuuuuuhhh... besides flagging motivation and trouble improving my writing in general? Those are kind of my two dragons. I can think of one or two moments where I really put my foot in my mouth in-roleplay thanks to being exhausted, or a failure to read the OOC situation, but nothing that's a bigger issue than the first two problems. Maybe that makes me one of the lucky ones?
I love discovery.
I often find myself frustrated with its community or some aspects of PvP or whatever, but all that pales in comparison to the friends I have made and communities I became a part of. I remember my first time seeing a fleet battle in Coronado and the awe I felt seeing capital ships fight in a fleet battle for the first time, and the next time I was part of a fight like that during "Operation Madness" as a Corsair bomber that made me love this game even more, just the dopamine hit as I strafed a Battleship with Neutralizer bombs, and seeing all of the strategy in chat, and just the number of people.
It was so amazing to me that stuff like this could exist in Freelancer, almost literally a dream come true.
To be honest, Operation Madness might have been my greatest high, but another really good one was when me, @ElGatito @GreySeiker @Nepotu and if I am remembering correctly @Sorin had fun during the Zoner-Freeport nine event.
The lowest would have to be this past month because of the drama and fighting. This coupled with the fact that 3 or 4 of my favorite people in the community have been MIA for months now or only rarely appear nowadays and it does kinda sting when I wish they were still playing.
Some friends and I were talking about it the other day. The Port Smallwood siege was probably the most "epic gamer moment" in my life, because @Exterminator and I stayed up a full 24 hours to coordinate everything with TBH, Benitez, Sails and indies, and fight off wave after wave after wave after wave of enemies.
Sure there was lots of salt around it, with one faction in particular crashing the server on purpose time after time again, but we didn't give up, we kept on going, further than any sane person would. And in the end we prevailed.
We achieved absolutely nothing with it, part from blowing up that base, but we talk about it to this day.
The lowest is having to miss so many people, that seemingly completely disappeared. I just hope they are all doing well.
I like Freelancer, and I have been watching my dad play it since I was born in 2004. When I was in elementary school, I learned about Discovery MOD, and at that time, I was just blindly playing single player mode. Later, I entered a Discovery mod server through the server list (I'm not sure if it's the GC server). The biggest pleasure was piloting Corsair bombers to take on BHG warship missions at Gamma's shipyard, and blowing them up one by one with dual NOVAs.
Then in junior high school, I first came into contact with the Discovery server in China, met many people, and joined many factions. Perhaps due to different modes, each person is allowed to join only one faction, and the struggle between two different factions has become a source of enjoyment. At that time, it was still the period when GRN invaded Leeds, and I joined GRN. Faced with the biggest force on the current server, LN, there were very few BAF people. I drive BS in Leeds every day to earn money, and then I get caught and blown up by a group of people haha.
GRN vs LN/BAF, who participated in the most unforgettable epic battle at that time, 40+vs 50+ GRN captured LN's lone troops through guerrilla tactics and achieved a battle loss ratio of 1:2 before the server exploded. It's really unforgettable. At that time, I met many, many people, including teammates who fought with me, teachers who taught me how to fight at Conn, and respected opponents.
Later, people came and left intermittently, and some friends and I were still there, but Freelancer is not well-known in China and there are few new blood joining. Slowly, the server became a group of people who knew each other and played house together. Lacking a lot of novelty and passion, but still maintaining a deep affection and love for Freelancer. Some of us switched to developing GC servers, and later heard that those people were involved in the establishment of DTR.
The biggest blow to Chinese servers is still the 5.0 patch update. We already lacked many server plugins before, which resulted in some functions not being implemented, and with only 1-2 technical personnel. The impact of the 5.0 patch on archiving is enormous, with a huge amount of engineering, resulting in slow server updates being put on hold and the rented server having expired, so it was decided to shut down the server.
Some of us turned to real GC servers and established NWI. I also joined the Auxo faction that I was interested in a long time ago while learning about how GC servers work. I met Nyx, Gabi, Vendetta, Hope, and many friends whose names I forgot! I'm sorry!!! LOL!!! love u all so much.
However, as time passed, many people went to handle IRL transactions. Some people are already married, some have children, and I have also gone from being a junior high school student to a college student. The only happy time now is when our NWI organizes a large fleet battle or an Earhart mining. I once had the idea of becoming an official fact, but due to language barriers, it was put on hold.
Finally, I still hope that Discovery can get better and better.
Freelancer carried my childhood and my youth
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