Since most of the active developers have since retired, I have decided to shutter FLHook development from the Forge.

The project is now available on Github: https://github.com/Friendly0Fire/FLHook

Merge requests are welcome by anyone who wishes to. This includes new plugins that may be distributed alongside FLHook itself.

Note that the version on Github has also been modified since the last SVN commit.

I believe this was done to sorta cache the systems which improved performance when actually loading the systems later on when a player logged/jumped. Don't know why it's iterating over bases though.

It can also be useful while doing system editing since some errors will pop up straight on server startup.

I have no idea what you're talking about on either point, sorry.

I don't think there's any new game in this site's future. Between developers now hosting their own forums and websites, reddit, and people being on the lookout for new games well before us, I don't think we have a niche aside from Freelancer.

The only real reason to upgrade the site is to prevent it from eventually falling apart and allow it to remain a resource for future players and modders, however few they are. It's a miracle this site even exists, considering the troubled times that spawned its foundation, it'd be a bit of a shame to see it just crash or get hacked one day.

If we're gonna do something new, it'll be a new forum software (probably Vanilla or Flarum) without any home screen/news stuff that nobody uses and a separate, better curated/cleaned up downloads section (and maybe the wiki, it's also pretty dead). I'd also completely redo the branding and color scheme.

Thing is, that transition is a pain in the ass, so it's highly unlikely to happen.

I suspect the session's lifetime is not always (or ever) refreshed when just opening a new page, so the expiry can happen basically at any point and that's what prompts a refresh.

We've had that conversation many times already. "Abandonware" is not a legal term. The copyright on Freelancer will not expire for decades. Microsoft simply doesn't care to sue people for sharing such an old game that wasn't even that popular in the first place.

At this point, I don't really care if people share links to download the game. It's a pain in the ass to find a physical copy and it's not available online legally. Just don't interpret this to mean that it's suddenly legal to download the game. If we're ever contacted by Microsoft to pull the links, we will do so immediately.

It also of course has absolutely no bearing on whether Microsoft will do anything with the game. They won't.

Pretty sure adoxa means a plugin that just does a preprocessing pass to the INIs as they're read by Freelancer. You'd just be able to use pos_begin and pos_end directly in the INIs.