After looking at the maps of unmodded and Discovery Freelancer, I noticed a few things that raised the question "What makes a system an Independent, Border, or Edge World?" In unmodded Freelancer, this distinction was fairly easy to make. Independent Worlds had Jump Hole/Gate connections to two Houses, lied between Liberty and another House, and were named after famous explorers or scientists; Border Worlds had only one Jump Hole/Gate connection to a House and were given Greek names; Edge Worlds had no Jump Hole/Gate connections to the Houses and were given Greek names as well.
In Discovery Freelancer, everything seems to have changed. On the map (http://discoveryfl.com/wiki/images/b/bb/...erymap.jpg), several systems listed as Independent Worlds and Border Worlds no longer have any Jump Hole/Gate connections to any of the Houses and the naming convention seems to have disappeared. For example, Humboldt, which fits the naming and Jump Hole/Gate connections characteristics of an Independent World is labeled as a Border World. The whole distinction seems to have blurred.
How do the Discovery developers decide on what Independent, Border, and Edge Worlds are?
Carlos Rivera: Corsair Brotherhood Pirate - Retired, shifted to Tripoli Shipyard's Research and Development engineering teams Anthony Cameron: Guild Core Bounty Hunter - Killed in Action, committed suicide after being trapped in Omicron Minor following its destruction Juan Ruiz: Outcast Ghost of Razgriz Pirate - Killed in Action, killed by the Sirius Coalition Revolutionary Army during Bretonian piracy raid Michael Winchester: Liberty Security Force Agent - Missing in Action, likely killed during Rheinland espionage mission or trapped in Rheinland Space Eric McCormick: Order Pilot - Retired, shifted to planetside training of new recruits
If a system sits on the borders between two Houses, such as Omega-7 or Omega-3, it is a Borderworld.
If a system sits away from the borders but is not too dangerous, such as Tau-23, it is a Independent World.
If a system sits away from the borders but is far more frontier like and dangerous, such as Omicron Delta, it is an Edge world.
' Wrote:If a system sits on the borders between two Houses, such as Omega-7 or Omega-3, it is a Borderworld.
If a system sits away from the borders but is not too dangerous, such as Tau-23, it is a Independent World.
Incorrect.
The Border Worlds form what is basically a ring around the houses, the Taus, Sigmas and Omegas basically. They're called border worlds because they border the Edge Worlds and the houses
Edge worlds are what you said .
Independent worlds are the worlds in between the houses.
Why the heck is Humboldt a Borderworld? It seems like it should be an Independent World.
Carlos Rivera: Corsair Brotherhood Pirate - Retired, shifted to Tripoli Shipyard's Research and Development engineering teams Anthony Cameron: Guild Core Bounty Hunter - Killed in Action, committed suicide after being trapped in Omicron Minor following its destruction Juan Ruiz: Outcast Ghost of Razgriz Pirate - Killed in Action, killed by the Sirius Coalition Revolutionary Army during Bretonian piracy raid Michael Winchester: Liberty Security Force Agent - Missing in Action, likely killed during Rheinland espionage mission or trapped in Rheinland Space Eric McCormick: Order Pilot - Retired, shifted to planetside training of new recruits
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