I've been replaying vanilla Freelancer recently, and I noticed that I can't see anything very far away. I'm working on a mod right now and I want the player to be able to see things from across a system. Even if it just looks like a speck, I want the player to be able to see it. Just wanted to know how to change this. Thx in advance.

To set the distance an object becomes visible at you need to change the LOD value, for objects like bases, trade lanes etc this is in DATA/SOLAR/solararch.ini.

The example below is for a small asteroid base like Alcatraz the range when it becomes visible/selectable is 7000 m for it to be visible across a system you might need to change this to 150000 - 200000 depending on system size.

Tekagi's base in Tohoku is set at

LODranges = 0, 7000, 25000, 150000

so it can be seen right across the system.

[Solar]
nickname = miningbase_small_ice
ids_name = 1
ids_info = 1
type = STATION
DA_archetype = solar\dockable\miningbase_small_ice.cmp
material_library = solar\asteroid_dock.mat
material_library = solar\ast_ice.mat
LODranges = 0, 7000
mass = 100000000
open_sound = depot_open_sound
close_sound = depot_close_sound
docking_sphere = moor_medium, HpDockMountD, 50.000000
docking_sphere = berth, HpDockMountA, 2.500000, Sc_open dockA
docking_sphere = berth, HpDockMountB, 2.500000, Sc_open dockB
docking_sphere = moor_medium, HpDockMountC, 50.000000
docking_camera = 0
solar_radius = 500
shape_name = NNM_SM_DEPOT
hit_pts = 999999961690316250000000000000000000.000000
fuse = miningbase_small_ice_burning_fuse, 0, 0

One thing to consider is the impact on performance, a quote from sumanuti's link so be careful what you wish for

"Ah this has been a great one! Funny turning that one up, really brings even an overclocked i5-2500K to it's knees (although it seems to only use a single thread it seems). Only thing left now are the tradelanes. Anyone got any ideas for that? Thanks for the step by step guide btw."