Hi there,

I'm not new in Freelancer modding, but this game lost my focus in the last years due to the closure of my favorite TC mod server : Gateway.

After playing the SW:TOR betas, the lack of good sci-fi games got me back in, and I recently decided to work again on my own TC mod.
A few words about my mod (it's a work in progress) :
- only new systems, for the moment the entire solar system, in 'realistic' proportions (size, distances, planets size, stations size, ships size, starmaps,...)
- only new ships, both for players/NPC, from differents sci-fi movies/series
- new commodities, new equipment
- a dedicated php portal with advanced fonctions (crafting is one goal)
- a lot of things too long to explain in a introduction...

While the learning curve is high, thanks to this website (and others), I still have difficulties with :
- effects (modding, creating)
- encounters (different types)
- fine solar / solar modules placement on map

I want to add, I have backups of everything I could find about Freelancer for the 8 last years (custom ships, plugins, tutorials, tools...), so I could have a lot of ressources that became unavailable with time... Feel free to ask...

On a side note, I'm 32, I'm a IT technician, I know PHP/HTML/SQL/AHK pretty well, a little of java/C++, but I'm a specialist in 'out-of-the-box' thinking : for an example, I was the first in the world to release a custom map for Battlefield 2 when the SDK was not even released (blackhawkhunt map, some may remember it).

On a last note, I'm french, so please forgive my language mistakes !

Have a nice day... See you on the boards....