best is to ask another player to hold whatever you transfer while you have your characters close.
there is basicly no limit, but you shouldn t transfer more than i think.. 1.9 billion credits or 99 different items ( cause you should not have more than that on one char )
the other way to transfer stuff is to leave it in space, dock nearby, undock and tractor it in. - thats of course unsafe cause many things can happen, stuff needs to stay in space for brief time to have the server "remember" it... and it only stays in space without a player around for i think 1.5 minutes or something. - so you must have relaunched into the 2k radius around your stuff within that time.
other than that - other players can pick your stuff up, which isn t nice, but basicly not against any rule, cause stuff in space is free for all. ( allthough, you get your stuff back from pretty much most of the people if they tracktor it in )
to transfer money that way, you can use the credit cards. - but if you have another player around that you trust, - allways try to transfer stuff from player to player.
one more thing. - when you pick up stuff and you do NOT dock, log out or change the system, your char is NOT saved up. - means, if everything goes well and you successfully transfer your stuff into your hold, - but then the server crashes, - you ll find yourself facing a char roleback to the last save ( before you launched ) without your stuff in your hold. so - make sure you tractor it all in AND dock asap to update your char. once you have done that - mount your stuff / sell your credit cards - and you re fine.
you can give it to another player. That is the safest way to do it. Also, you can have up to 5 characters per account, and as many accounts as you want. To make another account, see here: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14862
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Gah. With all the talk about transfers, I thought it'd be as easy as navigating a menu. But then again, transferring within your own characters is rather silly and could be cheating anyway. Oh well.
...another stupid question. How do you take a screenshot in the game?:(
the "print" key saves the screens in your private folder as a .bmp file. ( my documents/my games/freelancer ) - but you can aswell download FRAPS trial. it ll save your stuff in a custom folder - and doesn t freeze the game as much as the print key.