Idiocy? Obviously! Much to learn, even for Veterans!

[Crackpunch]

I didn't realise there was a major difference between Niobium and Niobium ore.

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[Miaou]

It took me a month to learn what EK is.

What took me about 3 months was the proper things you need to mine. Even when someone explained it to me, I still didn't get it. They had to physically show me step by step, and once it dawned on me, I facepalmed about how simple it was.

I also didn't know about quick docking for a long while.

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Characters & Stories

[.:Mongoose:.]

I learned about engine kill like 2 months ago I think lol, not to speak about the barrel roll, which I only learned one month ago max.

Barrel Roll!!! Tell me more?

[Swallow]

It was about a year before I realized there were red and green lights on the trade lanes to show you where to enter, and even then someone had to show me.

Yay, really?
And i always looked in the map to see where i need to enter.
Or only for a moment pressed f3 to aim my ship in the right ring and then flyed without auto to perform fastdock

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FL MOD(EL)MAKING: TOOLS, RESOURCES, TUTORIALS AND MY SHIPS (OLD)

I am on discord: Roal-Yr#5994, I don't log on forum more than a few times a year.

I am not making ships for FL anymore, I am making my own space game instead:
https://github.com/roalyr/GDTLancer
https://roal-yr.itch.io/gdtlancer
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5HQB...cdH45LZgjj

[lynnntropy]

It was about a year before I realized there were red and green lights on the trade lanes to show you where to enter, and even then someone had to show me.

Got that one sometime last year, been playing since 2003 though. ¬¬

[Pinko]

I will tell you a small story, dear community.

I found out, that if you target another ship in space, it name appears, you can see the distance from it to you.

And there is another number, that you can see:



So, obviously this number shows the level of the charakter. Yes, yes, now i know, too.

I played Freelancer from ~2004, and reached Disco ~3,5 years ago. As you can see, i signed on forum 3 years in the past.

I am not a newbie, it seems. But believe me or not: I found that level-thingie out only ~5 month ago.

Ok, i needed 2 weeks, from the start, until i recognized, that i can move a zoomed in system map by click and drag, but this level-thingie is awesome. As i found out the meaninng of the number, i thought: 'What a handy tool... since when we have that?'
Around ten seconds later, i thought: 'Crap, i guess it is hardcoded since 2003...'

Blind spot it seems. I felt ashamed more than a bit, beeing such a blind guy, that i have waited 5 month. But now i will share this nice lil story about failiure...

Did you expirienced a similar blind spot on you own game-eyes? If so, please post.

Others are invited to give a polite comment, thank you

Sooo, what about the ''No-Shooting Underlevels'' rule? <.<

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I want to get off Mr. Igiss' wild ride.

[unlucky]

I still can't make weapon groups working depsite roughly twenty people explained it to me already in the last half year. I never heard about weapon groups before and I still can't understand them

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Objection, pal!

[xxrockstar992xx]

Only recently realized that the shields say "Graviton."
I always read them as "gravitron."

I do the same thing

Also, you forgot to blank the name that you clicked on.

GG.

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[12:51:19 PM] Sean: Actually, Alex is cool, I forgot 8-)

[atlantis2112]

It was about a year before I realized there were red and green lights on the trade lanes to show you where to enter, and even then someone had to show me.

I realized this last year and I've played Freelancer since release.

[agentmike]

Barrel Roll!!! Tell me more?

look in your settings, where you assign keys to controls.
scroll down and there is a "roll left" and "roll right" feature. (i think thats the name of it...)
by default, the keys aren't assigned.
only seems to work in cockpit view.



i played the game for a very long time before i realized that you can "turn on" your countermeasure dropper, so it automatically launches CMs when someone shoots missiles at you, by clicking on it in the HUD.