Why not use HD edition as your base patch? It includes everything, even some fixes to JFLP we've found along the way.

We are well aware of the divide.

People that historically played Freelancer know or know how to find details to make the game work today. We know this is a barrier to entry.

This is why some of the mods have installers etc these days, including a project I'm involved with, Freelancer HD Edition.

There is an untapped new generation of players out there who I believe would enjoy Freelancer and give it new life. I think we have to do some modernising though before that can happen.

I think as a community we should work together to a common ground remaster and then advertise/deploy it. But concepts like that have never gone down well, community is too split between their projects for that, and there would always be debate on what should be included and what shouldn't be without a central guided direction that we can't deviate from.

We have to naturally come to agreement/compromise.

That's the real hurdle, we collectively have the knowledge and tools as a single force to completely overhaul the game to a modern standard. We just don't have a common goal, and if we did, we'd have different thoughts about achieving/implementing it.

PortableFL already functions independently of the main save location. It temporaringly overrides the windows environment variable that points to that location, saves are merely created and loaded from the My Documents folder internal to PortableFLs folder structure. It's one of the main reasons for it being Portable.

Thanks for the detailed info though man.

Just to keep you guys in the loop, I got a new job a couple of months back, unfortunately as I was effectively starting again I had to focus on that for a while, which left me drained at the end of the day. Now I am more comfortable in the role it's taking less energy, so hopefully I can put some time into this project soon.

I also have a Minecraft modpack I am working on too. Freelancer isn't going anywhere though (hopefully lol).

If you ever get this fully working WhiskasTM, I'd love to use it when I get around to working on the HUD.

According to the page, it can be worked around by turning the service back on anyways, at your own risk. So this is a none issue.

I may incorporate known issue checking into Portable Freelancer, this one shouldn't be too difficult to detect.

Sigh, I hate work on logo's, fonts look so rubbish, so I went and solved the god damn issue by creating a fairly simple app that I can just adjust the CSS of and display fonts so I can screenshot them and then edit them in an image program.