the last 14 months i have been working alone on freelancer. it was about 2 weeks of that i have joined a development team for an upcoming freelancer mod and several other times i have tried to announce some help to mods who seemed to need it and whose developers even agreed on that but at last never used my work. however, what i learned during this few weeks of trying to help others making a name in the community is, that we have quite a hard concurrence between each other. maybe here, on the starport were talking together, discussing new possibilities but once we have kinda direction to look at we keep all our advantages quiet. most of us, even if we would not declare it here (but i just have to bring it to the point, regardless of how it makes you look down at me), do want to create the best themselves and do not want to share the honor and the names. we see that on that of most greater mods you can download only a client version. we see it on mod thieves and on secrets about technique. of course, the time passes and older features get explained to the community but as long as you are first discoverer you keep your discovery by yourself, we all do, me, too.
i think we forget what we really are after: this ist not GTA, this is not star trek legacy this is not crysis. whatever were after in real, what we are factually working on is not anymore an improvement of the game. we have not that big players count that it makes sense to expand the game doing some exploration challenges. i have started a server about a year ago within a small lan company, no contact to the world wide web ingame. and guess what, i got players to the game, who did not know it before. it is enough to advertise the vanilla as it is in fact a great game. what we need is to improve graphics: models, textures, effects, gfx engine. this is the only thing about freelancer that has really gotten old. this is the reason we have nearly no more players. it is not that the game needs any other improvements to have players. ofc fans of star trek and star wars you can get ingame with mods that have ships and stations from it. but the core should not be ships and systems, not anymore. this generation has passed. new missions are not needed, too, as only the last FL veterans know the original at all.
strange, we can’t get it advertised enough, why not? cuz the magazines are not interested in old games. we don’t need new missions and ambiences for the players at all, but for the magazines. and magazines are honestly good for single countries, not for the world and only for real gamers, not for the usual players, who just go to the stores. we need to get players by talking to our friends and by asking them to talk with their other friends. we need to get microsoft back to produce the game, so players can see it in stores. maybe with replaced files for models and gfx engines and textures. its not expansions the game needs.