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Welcome back! I remember some of those names. I miss Gibbon, Cannon and Glock36, though I cannot recall if Cannon was on TLR, now that I think about it... I was Anarchael. I didn't do much, but I made a mod that got featured on RPGDot back in the day and had 1100 downloads or so, which for a kid in high school in the mid 00s, was pretty cool. Modding FL sparked my interest in game design.

Welcome back!

I'd recommend installing Freelancer HD Edition and going from there. In terms of mods, there's not a lot of amazing ones that add a good amount of depth, lore and so on. Discovery is probably the best of them, however it makes a lot of its own lore as it is set after the base game. That's likely your best mod to look into after you've played the main storyline again.

There's not really any other mods that expand well into story, graphics and new systems. Most are just too much eye candy and mismatched features/models/textures, such as random Star Wars ships or added systems with no real need for them to be there.

Happy New Year 2023, Schmackbolzen! Hope you and family had a good holiday period.

I saw you posted another comment here on TSP and remembered this new shader project. How has the project fared across 2022? It was looking amazing in the last footage.

Glad you got it all working! Sorry, did not know you meant in Discovery, I thought you meant Vanilla FL. We are all helpful here, so stop by any time. Modding FL is fun, you should come learn

All good points! Yeah, I was just presenting the easiest approach to get them started. I know that when I first started, getting hung up on specifics was a big barrier to entry compared to just getting something I made working, and learning more/refining later.

Thanks for the ship explanations, too. I didn't know there were missing ships in the code! I've only just recently started looking at what was left in and not implemented, like the Pygar landing zone, so first thing I want to do is make it dock-able again. I thought maybe they were just never intended to be player-operated.

Looking forward to more exploration.

Nice! Yeah, if the stats display there, then you've done it properly. You can test it out against enemies, too. Jump into a normal Dragon and note the damage, then go up against the same enemies in the Red Dragon and see. Since the Stiletto has more shields, the damage should appear as less taken off the shield bar.

Correct! Juni's Defender is actually even easier, because it is already set up in shiparch.ini and uses the normal Defender cockpit.

Look up "nickname = li_elite2" and you'll see her Defender. All you need to do is make a hull and ship package separately for it in goods.ini, then in market_ships.ini, sell that package at the base you want.

For example, add these to your goods.ini:

[Good]
nickname = le2_hull
category = shiphull
ship = li_elite2
price = 10
ids_name = 237033
item_icon = Equipment\models\commodities\nn_icons\li_elite.3db

[Good]
nickname = le2_package
category = ship
hull = le2_hull
addon = ge_le_engine_01, internal, 1
addon = li_elite_power01, internal, 1
addon = ge_s_scanner_01, internal, 1
addon = ge_s_tractor_01, internal, 1
addon = shield01_mark02_hf, HpShield01, 1
addon = LargeWhiteSpecial, HpHeadlight, 1
addon = SlowSmallBlue, HpRunningLight01, 1
addon = SlowSmallBlue, HpRunningLight02, 1
addon = SlowSmallBlue, HpRunningLight03, 1
addon = SlowSmallBlue, HpRunningLight04, 1
addon = contrail01, HpContrail01, 1
addon = contrail01, HpContrail02, 1
addon = DockingLightRedSmall, HpDockLight01, 1
addon = DockingLightRedSmall, HpDockLight02, 1

Then, add this to the base you want to sell it at in market_goods.ini:

marketgood = le2_package, 0, -1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1

Oops! Well done @Alucard!

Yeah @Kuze, would be cool to check them out!