The Starport

Maintenance window

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:30:00 +0200

Hi,
This afternoon we have scheduled a maintenance window. It will be from 16:00 CET till around 20:00 CET.

We will take the site offline while we do the needed server updates.

The FLCN will stay active the whole time, we need to do DB updates and some OS patches.

We hope that you can understand it.

Regards,
SP admin Team.

Modular Station Tutorial

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:38:49 +0200

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This tutorial has also been uploaded to the Downloads section as a PDF file curtesy of Roo Avery.

Modular Station Tutorial By Dragnite‏

::::Warning modular station creation is extremely time consuming and extremely addictive. I take no responsibility if you become a mod-a-holic because of it::::

Where to start?

Well first you need modular station parts for this we used : Aldabarans modular station kit Courtesy of aldebaran and credits to Freeworlds mod.

With modular station creation the first thing you need to know is what system you're going to place it in and where in the system you want it. This is best found using FLExplorer as its easier to see where vast amounts of space are. I say vast because as you will see from my first modular station they can get a bit on the large side if you get carried away with it.

Once a system and location is found the first part you need to add is the docking point. Everything can be built from this point rather than building a hige structure then realising at the end of it that adding the dock last means it looks out of place.

So you are going to want to look at which dock you want. So open up your freelancer directory and navigate to data/solar/dockable.

Here you will find a list of all the available dockable pieces you can use. the 3db/cmp files can all be opened and view using hardcmp. Please remember that the textures in hardcmp often dont resemble what they look like in the game on hardcmp they are often crappier.

ModDB: Vote Now!

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:29:11 +0200

Hello people!

This is to remind you that there is ONE day left for voting for the Mod of the Year Awards over at ModDB! Make sure you have voted on the profiles of the two Freelancer mod to have made it in the Top 100, Freeworlds and Crossfire. To do so, follow either link and click on the Freelancer button under "Top 100", then click on "VOTE"!

VOTE FOR FREEWORLDS HERE!

VOTE FOR CROSSFIRE HERE!

The SÃÂ³ Experiment

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:51:04 +0200

The SÃÂ³ Experiment

The Starport Story Spotlight is a feature new to The Starport giving the talented writers amongst our servers some well deserved spotlight attention.

The feature will work in the following way;

Every server is invited to submit 1 RP Story line from their server.

An announcement will be made in a new dedicated area of the SP forums announcing the start of the one week period in which the writers should post thier stories.

Once this one week period is up and all entries are in, a vote will be thrown up so that the community can vote for the story they enjoyed the most. This vote will stay up for 2 weeks giving people time to read all the entries and make their decision.

At the end of the 2 weeks, after the votes have been counted, A winner will be announced and the winning story will appear as a news article on the SP front page. This will give the winning author and Server some free advertising. The story will also appear as a news item in the front news forum as the winning story.

All story submissions should be COMPLETED stories. That means we need a start, a middle and an end. With this in mind, servers can submit story lines that are up to 18 months old.

If a story was written between 2 or more writers as a combined effort, all credits must be present and correct. Any entry with the incorrect credits will be disqualified.

Over the next few days I would start discussing this feature with your servers and deciding upon a story you want to submit. As remember, each server can only submit ONE story.

Small hint: You can expect the 1 week entry timer to begin in about 4 days.

More information will follow shortly.

We look forward to seeing what each server puts forward.

The Staff Team.

Microsoft Fan site links

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:25:00 +0200

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Cheese on Toast has recently posted the following news;

Some of you may know that the fan links on the microsoft FL site was full of bad links, its taken months but finally, we have managed to get thru and i received this e-mail this morning.

Hi Gary,

Wanted to apologize for the lack of response on this. I updated the fan site listing page with your site and wanted to relay this information back to you personally.

All the best and take care,

Bradley

the fan links page can be found by following this link >>> http://www.microsoft.com/games/freelancer/external_02.aspx

What a month January has been for Freelancer and The Starport. 2 Mods making the short list for the Mod of Year 2009 competition. A news article on ExtremeTech and now this. Lets make sure the rest of the year is just as successful.

The Staff Team.

The Starport on Extremetech.com

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:51:42 +0200

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It's true... The Starport has been mentioned on www.extremetech.com as part of thier 'Will Your Games Run on Windows 7?' article.

The article reports that Freelancer will work on Windows 7 as long as patch 1.1 is installed and running.

This is an amazing achievement for The Starport and Freelancer both. It goes to show this game is not dead, we are still here and we are not going anywhere anytime soon.

For more information on Windows 7 and the tests carried out please read the article found here.

Once again, thanks to everyone here for keeping this wonderful game alive.

The Starport Staff

Freelancer Black Dawn Forums Back Up

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:16:12 +0200

After a singificantly longer downtime than we expected, due to the fact that I had no admin CP access and because Apoc just seemed to disapear the Freelancer Black Dawn Forums are once again back up and running.

Users will have to re-register as the forums have been completely wiped.

The forum address is located here : http://black-dawn.fl-wt.com/index.php

On a side note relating to Freelancer black dawn, it was the mods birthday a couple of weeks ago!

Sorry for the inconvience,

~Dark_Angel

Mod of the Year Awards 2008

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:21:25 +0200

Two weeks ago the mod of the year awards have started the 1st phase of the voting. Two of the 100 nominated Mods are the work of the Freelancer community. They belong to the 100 best mods worldwide and defended this position against thousands of other mods eventhough most of them are based on new modern game engines.

First Id like to thank all those which already voted for all the Freelancer mods out there (also for those which didnt manage to reach the Top100).

The nominated mods are:

Freeworlds: Tides of War

http://www.moddb.com/mods/freeworlds-182

and

Crossfire (which also got a top100 position in 2007)

http://www.moddb.com/mods/crossfire

Unfortunatly Discovery is not nominated this year. It would have been cool if more FL mods would have reached the 2nd phase of the mod awards. But Im sure they will be back in the top100 with MOTY 2009.

My congrats go to the Freeworlds team for such a good mod and their incredible position at moddb.

The Mod of the year awards are a chance not only to push the nominated Mods but also the Freelancer game and its community as a whole. The higher these two nominated mods get voted in the 2nd phase the better for the entire FL community. WE show that FL is still alive. WE show that there is a high potential in the community. WE show that our old FREELANCER can mess with all the other new games out there. Help us and vote for these two mods. Push Freelancer to the top!

Thx

BSG MOD Trailer

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:11:51 +0200

Human or Cylon. You choose ! Galactica - Dawn of War is a modification ( mod ) of the game Freelancer inspired by the hit TV series Battlestar Galactica. It runs exclusively on the BSG-Galactica Freelancer server.

It features a whole new galaxy based on the galactica story with new systems, new factions, new ships, new weapons and new commodities.

You choose to become a colony or cylon fighter in your viper or cylon raider, alternatively be a tactical pilot on board of the raptor or the heavy raider, and ultimately command your own battleship, a mighty battlestar or a dreadful basestar.

The fate of the second cylon war is in your hands.

Not a fan of Galactica ? There is more for you !

Beside the galactica universe, this mod also features an advanced PvP and tournament system as well as a selection of the best fighters and freighters created by the Freelancer modding community.

We have released 1.68 , visit us at www.BSG-GALACTICA.COM

dont miss it , here a small preview of our MOD :

Evil Empire has a new forum

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:39:17 +0200

The Evil Empire Revolution has a new forum. I am very excited about it, the look and feel is definitely Freelancer. Each member has their own picture gallery to share pics, the community bar is up and running on the site. Advertise your mod, your server and upload pictures of your adventures.

Mi casa is su casa* http://evilempirerevolution.forumotion.net/ so come over and check it out. I will be adding new topics soon for example the Modding Corner which will contain info on modding Freelancer.

*My home is your home