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"Jeff Holinski" <nospam_Holinski@shaw.ca> wrote in message 
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>I got sick of my current games and decided to reload Freelancer for
> another go and it still strikes me as a VERY cool game. After I
> finished it the first time I went onto EVE online. At the time EVE was
> a pretty cool game, but as I play FL again I realize that it has a lot
> of stuff that I'd like to see in an online game. With some tweaking it
> could easily become a subscription based online game.
>
> Till then, I guess I'll be trying some of the free servers out there
> if there still are any and was wondering about popular mods and
> popular servers.
> The stuff I'd mostly like to see addressed would be the fact that all
> ships go at the same speed. You'd think that light fighters would be
> slightly faster than heavy fighters which would be faster than
> freighters.
> I'm also not too keen on how there's no real downside to mounting the
> biggest weapons you can afford. Big guns should take a lot to fit and
> take a lot of power to fire and nomad weapons are just stupidly
> overpowered.
> The scaling of the game bugs me quite a bit too. If the ships were
> MUCH smaller (1% to 10% of their current size) and distances displayed
> were changed it would help a lot with believability.
>
> Any mods that address any of these issues? Are there any servers that
> are recommmended that run a lot (if not 24/7) that are recommended for
> playing on?
>
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> Jeff H........
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Heh, heh, your subj line is a bit misleading.  You probably already know 
this, but the best place for FL stuff is:

http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/

Check "downloads" for a (huge!) list of available mods.  With any luck, you 
might be find one or more that deal with the issues you mention.  For a huge 
increase in the universe size, I'd recommend the "massive" mod.