Guess whose back??

[Gibbon]

Yes, it's me lol. My apologies for my absence. I've had a lot of things to deal with over the last six months or so, mostly work related plus the fact i've had to move country, be it on a temporary basis. This has meant all my FL coding materials are now in a different country and i have no access to them for a while at least.

I've also bought my first ever laptop and i'm now running W7 64-bit which is nice, just means some of my FL tools don't work. With all that's happened recently in the spacesim world, especially regarding Chris Roberts and his Star Citizen project, (waiting for my copy now with attached modding manual), plus David Braben finally getting on with Elite Dangerous (also reserved a special copy for myself) you can understand priorities regarding Freelancer have changed.

That said, i've come to a decision regarding the almost complete Genesis mod. I will release it in OSP format, open single player as that will at least guarantee everyone can play the thing. I'll include the price randomizer code for all the bases as it will simulate a dynamic economy and prices will fluctuate on all goods, including commodities, equipment and ships. I'll keep you all posted on how this goes. There will be NO multiplayer version now as for one thing i have no server, and secondly, bit pointless with all these new games coming out with thousands of players on all the time.

Thanks everyone for still believing and keeping the faith, be patient and i'll sort this out as quickly as i can

[Cygna]

Mar 4, 2013 9:32:32 GMT Gibbon said:

Yes, it's me lol. My apologies for my absence. I've had a lot of things to deal with over the last six months or so, mostly work related plus the fact i've had to move country, be it on a temporary basis. This has meant all my FL coding materials are now in a different country and i have no access to them for a while at least.

I've also bought my first ever laptop and i'm now running W7 64-bit which is nice, just means some of my FL tools don't work. With all that's happened recently in the spacesim world, especially regarding Chris Roberts and his Star Citizen project, (waiting for my copy now with attached modding manual), plus David Braben finally getting on with Elite Dangerous (also reserved a special copy for myself) you can understand priorities regarding Freelancer have changed.

That said, i've come to a decision regarding the almost complete Genesis mod. I will release it in OSP format, open single player as that will at least guarantee everyone can play the thing. I'll include the price randomizer code for all the bases as it will simulate a dynamic economy and prices will fluctuate on all goods, including commodities, equipment and ships. I'll keep you all posted on how this goes. There will be NO multiplayer version now as for one thing i have no server, and secondly, bit pointless with all these new games coming out with thousands of players on all the time.

Thanks everyone for still believing and keeping the faith, be patient and i'll sort this out as quickly as i can

Welcome back m8.

Nice to hear you are ok and healthy, thats more important.

As Win7 64bit has WinXP built in with it, you should be able to
run your modding tools in Combatability mode.
I have the same OS, all my games and programs run ok.

Still with that said, WB and have a bit more faith in FL, Roberts
and Brabens projects to me look flawed and i will have nothing
to do with them, my opinion.

I look forward to see your work completed.

Rgds


Cygna

[Gibbon]

Cheers Cygna. I look forward to my work being completed as well tbh,as it was almost done before lol

[scarz]

Good to hear all is well in Gibbon world. I think all of the FL gamers are keeping an eye on Chris Roberts and his Star Citizen project, and David Braben and the Elite Dangerous progress. Will be looking for the OSP Genesis.

[Gibbon]

Hey scarz. I agree with you about Elite and Star Citizen, i'm paid up for both so just a matter of waiting. The good news after three hours of testing in SP is it all works... so far lol. Once i'm happy we'll do a little beta if u guys are interested.

[Crusader]

Nice to see you to see you nice :-))

I'm glad you alright m8. Welcome back. RL always comes first. I'm partially with Cygna about the Star Citizen hype and will always be a Freelancer Pilot, no matter what comes about. If Star Citizen can keep what it promises, then all the better, but FL stays with me until the day I pop.
Elite is another thing I will keep a close eye on. Still got the original on a HDD somewhere.

Anyways, I'm looking forward to Genesis and if you need anything, just give us a shout.

Crusader

[Gibbon]

You guys helped a lot with the earlier testing, just going through all the notes and comments, hopefully fixed the things you chaps mentioned. The mod seems quite stable so far, not had any crashes which is a good thing

[Snake Plisskin]

glad to see you back I thought you were consumed by the darkside.

[Gibbon]

Good news is i'm back, mod released, Happy Dayz!!

[scarz]

Downloaded Genesis 1.0 OSP. Will be playing the game as a back up to the Disco mod I am currently playing. Quickly remembering the limitations of single play. When I need a break from my Disco TS and the Disco game, I at least have a single play option now. Thanks a bunch and will keep in touch...

Cheers,

Scarz

[Crusader]

Thanks Gibbon. I downloaded the mod and can't wait to play. Thank you for the honour to be part of it as a tester.

Crusader

[Gibbon]

Couldn't have finished it without everyone's help

[brizee]

love the mod

[Gibbon]

Much appreciated, you'll love it even more if you apply the fix that i posted in the bugs section