your welcome anytime . I have been using iobit products for a long time a very good company.

I have been using a terra byte hard drive for god knows how long about 4 years for back ups. now its slowly dieing I have been using wd green 1tb as back up but its at 97% right now.

naw one is sufficent

yeah I will look into it the next time the mod bug bites me . I have been busy with work and right now I am playing the new discovery mod on open single player.

it could be an issue with your router or fire wall

Microsoft Windows firewall
With Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), you do not have to manually create port exceptions in the firewall. You may now create exceptions for the program itself.

To do this, follow these steps.

Note Never open a port for a program that you do not recognize.1.Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
2.Click Security Center.
3.Click Windows Firewall.
4.Click the Exceptions tab.
5.Click Add Program.
6.Click Browse.
7. Locate the game's executable file, and then click Open. By default, the game is installed in one of the following locations:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\EXE\Freelancer.exe

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\EXE\FLServer.exe

8.Click OK two times.
For additional information about how to use the Windows firewall, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
842242

Some programs seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2 If you are not using the Windows firewall, you may still have to know the ports that are used by the game when you configure your network.
Port listing
To make sure that these ports are open or to open these ports, contact your network administrator or Internet service provider (ISP). If you are the administrator of the network, view the documentation that is provided with your networking software to determine how to open these ports. Freelancer Server requires that the following ports be open to host multiplayer games:
2302-2304 UDP
Freelancer requires that the following ports be open to play a multiplayer game:
2300-2400 UDP also for your server to show up global you need port 80 open


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814550

what happened as always I had a problem with my hardrive and lost my work. so I might start over if I am board enough. what I did was put surprise ships in place but I wanted a battle ship surprise or even an Osiris surprise a ruined battle ship that fought hard with the nomads.

ok I got it just examined the sdk they put surprise ships in there