I'm looking for an experienced shipwright to help me put a concept together into a working ship. I want to create a mod with a couple of ships in order to create a short movie of a mod I'd like to create. Message me here or visit www.lancerstar.com.

Thanks.

*UPDATE*

FreePort2 is now LancerStar 24/7 RPG. There will be a separate post about the new site and mod coming soon.

www.LancerStar.com

We're probably at that point now. The original dev team is scattered to the winds. Digital Anvil no longer exists. Microsoft is associated purely in name only. Business is business and defending the copyright for a game that's not being sold is far too costly an endeavor for no return.

The game is ours. We just need to take the last step.

Had a similar problem, I think. The game ran fine vanilla nad even when I installed the first mod. But when I uninstalled the mod the game refused to boot. I'd double click the icon and get a few seconds of hourglass and then nothing. I eventually gave up trying and just uninstalled/reinstalled. It's worked fine since.

I've had this story forming in my head the past few days...

The sleeper ship that was destroyed actually wasn't. It was crippled to the point that it was uncontrollable and crashed landed on a water planet. It sank to the bottom. The food replicators and oxygen generators still worked but nothing else. After several generations, eventually the survivors left the ship and created colonies around it. As time went by more colonies and bases were formed around the planet. Eventually, as human civilizations tend to do, the colonies fragmented over political and ideological differences and different factions emerged, some not friendly to each other.

In the meantime, space flight technology was lost but the colonists developed advanced submarine technology. There were many types of subs from attack subs to transports. Bases developed specialty industries and trade proliferated. Along with trade came the usual problems; pirating, security needs, etc. Advanced weapons were developed, usually in the form of torpedoes big and small. Because of the nature of the deep sea, stealth became a central component of warfare. Subs were not detectable except by active means or if they became noisy through excessive speed or firing of weapons...

...bases shouldn't be a problem but I'm not sure if a seafloor is possible to do in the detail that will be necessary. We'll need cliffs, canyons, reefs, wrecks, kelp forests, and a lot more to make it realistic.

I dub thee "Freelancer: Underworld".

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Thinking more about it, an interactive seafloor wouldn't be absolutely necessary. We could merely say the water was so deep that the sleeper ship reached a point of neutral buoyancy and sank no further. The bottom was still hundreds of miles below. We could make the floor part of the background image.

Here's my idea, tell me how realistic it is:

I'm thinking about a total conversion that will use the FL engine. The concept will be underwater instead of space. The physics will be similar. There will be a seafloor with structures, canyons, etc. Submarines instead of ships.

So a landscape across the bottom of a system will far exceed the max polygons? And the same would apply for a base that was extraordinarily large and detailed?