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Mining containers not working?

Sat, 11 May 2024 02:52:37 +0000

I never had problems with the mining during the last months, but today I couldn't deploy the containers in the field. Script failure?

Flood threads

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:17:07 +0000

Please make threads from Flood not appear in "Latest activity" block. It becomes annoying. Ty.

Transferred Character Issue

Sun, 14 Jan 2024 02:25:31 +0000

I am not sure where else to post this. I have been trying to send cash to my other character. But, when ever I do, all it tells my is, ERR: Unknown error. The character that I am trying to send the money too, has just been transferred from my first account(?), when I first started playing, many years ago. Sense the transferrer, I noticed that I have a cruse disrupter, that I can not detach from my ship. Now, this last one I am not sure if it is a issue or not, but, when I destroy a NPC that is a pirate or a criminal, I don't see the pop up saying that I got the bounty for it.

New Install Instructions - Discovery Freelancer

Sat, 04 Nov 2023 11:47:55 +0000

Useful Download Help:

Want personalised help? Post in this thread. You'll get help very quickly.

1. You must only use the Discovery Freelancer launcher app. Type "Discovery" into Windows to find the launcher.
2. Don't select Freelancers folder (step 1) as destination when installing Discovery (step 2).
3. You won't be able to play the basic Freelancer game or campaign with these instructions.
4. Once the Discovery Freelancer launcher is installed, if you run into issues with launching game:

i. Try manually installing DirectPlay + .NET framework.
ii. Setup both Freelancer (step 1) + Discovery Freelancer (step 2) with Windows admin permissions.
iii. Ensure any virus protection software hasn't blocked or removed Discovery Freelancer files.

Useful Links:

- Discovery Rules
- Discovery Navigation Map
- Discovery Veteran Aid

Old Installation Instructions

(03-05-2015, 03:52 AM)DiscoveryGC Moderators Wrote:

Detailed written instructions

1.1 - Your PC must be running the latest MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK in order for the mod installer to work. Please download the latest version HERE.

1.2 - Please make sure your drivers are up to date. You can use free software such as CPU-Z to detect your hardware.

1.3 - Windows 10 users must additionally enable THESE FEATURES for the game to work correctly.

1.4 - Install the base Freelancer game from your CD or from an ISO file you can download HERE as a direct link or HERE as a torrent link (RECOMMENDED). Pre-Windows 10 users can install ISO files by using third party programs such as VIRTUAL CLONE DRIVE - Windows 10 users should be able to do this natively.

1.5 - The default installation folder should be under "?:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Freelancer" if you used a custom installation destination, make note of it as you will need to reference it during the mod installation.

1.6 - After installing the base game, it will have placed the game shortcut on your folder. You can delete it as it will not be used to launch the mod and the mod will overwrite the base game files anyway.

1.7 - After completing the installation, download the latest version of the Discovery Freelancer Mod from THIS LINK.

1.8 - Before launching the installer, temporarily disable your Antivirus as the anticheat mechanism used by Discovery may result in a false-positive detection and interfere with the installation process.

1.9 - Run the mod installer as an administrator and follow the instructions.

1.10 - The installer will prompt you to enter the location of your original Freelancer installation folder. Enter the location you took note of in step 1.5 as described above.

1.11 - After clicking NEXT, you will be prompted to choose additional components. The BLOOM EFFECT is a visual modification and may be enabled/disabled after installation ingame.

WARNING: THE BLOOM MOD PRODUCES A FLASHING SIDEEFFECT DURING THE GAME LAUNCH INTRO. IF YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM SEIZURES, DO NOT ENABLE BLOOM EFFECT!

1.12 - After clicking NEXT, you will be prompted to choose a destination folder for Discovery Mod. This folder must be separate from the base folder, such as "C:\Games"
DO NOT SELECT YOUR ORIGINAL FREELANCER FOLDER AS DESTINATION, IT WILL CORRUPT THE INSTALL!

1.13 - After clicking NEXT the mod will install itself under your chosen folder. After the installation process is complete, navigate yourself to the Discovery Freelancer Mod folder and locate the "DSLauncher.EXE" and create a desktop shortcut.

1.14 - The Discovery Mod can only be launched through this launcher. If you will launch the game via FREELANCER.EXE, you will not be able to connect to the multiplayer server.

1.15 - Within the launcher you can set the resolution and miscellaneous parameters of your game. It also will allow you to have multiple accounts as the maximum ship count per account is 7.

1.16 - Before joining the server, read and memorize the server rules. If you have any further questions - the HELP SECTION of our forums are open for all inquiries.

USEFUL LINKS:
Free version of the original Freelancer Game (Requires ISO mounting software): >>CLICK HERE<<
Mod Download: >>CLICK HERE<<

Common problems & Easy solutions

1. Having a hard time finding the Discovery Launcher? Search it on Windows or find it within your Discovery files. You must use this launcher.

2. Temporarily disable your Antivirus as the anticheat mechanism used by Discovery may result in a false-positive detection and interfere with the installation process.

3. Do not select your original Freelancer folder as a destination when installing Discovery Freelancer. Doing so can corrupt the install.

4. Windows 10 users can open ISO files natively. Pre Windows 10 users can use WinRAR or other software.

Old guide

DISCOVERY FREELANCER 4.92
Full Installation Guide + Troubleshooting Thread

1. Preparing your PC for installation

1.1 - Your PC must be running the latest MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK in order for the mod installer to work. Please download the latest version HERE.

1.2 - Please make sure your drivers are up to date. You can use free software such as CPU-Z to detect your hardware.

1.3 - Windows 10 users must additionally enable THESE FEATURES for the game to work correctly.

1.4 - Install the base Freelancer game from your CD or from an ISO file you can download HERE as a direct link or HERE as a torrent link (RECOMMENDED). Pre-Windows 10 users can install ISO files by using third party programs such as VIRTUAL CLONE DRIVE - Windows 10 users should be able to do this natively.

1.5 - The default installation folder should be under "?:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Freelancer" if you used a custom installation destination, make note of it as you will need to reference it during the mod installation.

1.6 - After installing the base game, it will have placed the game shortcut on your folder. You can delete it as it will not be used to launch the mod and the mod will overwrite the base game files anyway.

1.7 - After completing the installation, download the latest version of the Discovery Freelancer Mod from THIS LINK.

1.8 - Before launching the installer, temporarily disable your Antivirus as the anticheat mechanism used by Discovery may result in a false-positive detection and interfere with the installation process.

1.9 - Run the mod installer as an administrator and follow the instructions.

1.10 - The installer will prompt you to enter the location of your original Freelancer installation folder. Enter the location you took note of in step 1.5 as described above.

1.11 - After clicking NEXT, you will be prompted to choose additional components. The BLOOM EFFECT is a visual modification and may be enabled/disabled after installation ingame.

WARNING: THE BLOOM MOD PRODUCES A FLASHING SIDEEFFECT DURING THE GAME LAUNCH INTRO. IF YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM SEIZURES, DO NOT ENABLE BLOOM EFFECT!

1.12 - After clicking NEXT, you will be prompted to choose a destination folder for Discovery Mod. This folder must be separate from the base folder, such as "C:\Games"
DO NOT SELECT YOUR ORIGINAL FREELANCER FOLDER AS DESTINATION, IT WILL CORRUPT THE INSTALL!

1.13 - After clicking NEXT the mod will install itself under your chosen folder. After the installation process is complete, navigate yourself to the Discovery Freelancer Mod folder and locate the "DSLauncher.EXE" and create a desktop shortcut.

1.14 - The Discovery Mod can only be launched through this launcher. If you will launch the game via FREELANCER.EXE, you will not be able to connect to the multiplayer server.

1.15 - Within the launcher you can set the resolution and miscellaneous parameters of your game. It also will allow you to have multiple accounts as the maximum ship count per account is 7.

1.16 - Before joining the server, read and memorize the server rules. If you have any further questions - the HELP SECTION of our forums are open for all inquiries.

USEFUL LINKS:
Free version of the original Freelancer Game (Requires ISO mounting software): >>CLICK HERE<<
Mod Download: >>CLICK HERE<<
Questions and Troubleshooting: >>CLICK HERE<<

Interactive Navmap

Discovery Freelancer WIKI
Server Rules
Ingame Roleplay Laws
For Returning Players

Old old Guide
.NET FRAMEWORK 4.0 OR HIGHER IS REQUIRED. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PLAY WITHOUT IT.
If you have Windows 7 or above you should be fine, but in the event you want to be sure, you can download .Net Framework here from microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/...x?id=17718

DO NOT START FREELANCER VIA FREELANCER.EXE, USE DSLAUNCHER.EXE
Or you will potentially be banned due to mismatching versions.

INSTALLATION PROCEDURE
Download the setup and proceed with the installation. You will be required to have an original freelancer installation.

ATTENTION! Windows 10 users must not only install the mod with administrator rights, but also must manually enable NET Framework in their OS Settings. Please look at the tutorial HERE to see how. If you do not do this, the game will not launch!

When this is done, carry on and you will be asked where you want to install Discovery. Obviously do not install 4.88 in the same folder as 4.87.
When the setup is done, go to your programs list, go to Discovery Freelancer and click on Discovery Freelancer or alternatively, go to your installation folder and start DSLauncher.exe.
Wait for the Launcher to be done and when it is, a "Launch Game" button will appear. Click on it to play Discovery.

I GOT BANNED WHEN I JOINED THE SERVER
post in this thread http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=91864 and include your character name. NO CHARACTER NAME = NO SUPPORT

- DOWNLOADS

Vanilla Freelancer
You 'must' have the original version of Freelancer installed. The mod files are installed after you have this installed.
You can find a download link from the isozone here: https://files.cordilon.net/disco/Freelancer.iso

DO NOT USE uTorrent. IT IS NOW BUNDLED WITH MALWARE. WE RECOMMEND qBittorrent WHICH IS A SAFE ALTERNATIVE.
You can download qBittorrent here: http://www.qbittorrent.org/download.php (use the Stable - SourceForge downloads for extra caution)

TORRENT (RECOMMENDED): http://discoverygc.com/files/discovery_4...72.torrent
DIRECT DOWNLOAD: http://discoverygc.com/files/discovery_4.88.1.exe

- UNIVERSE MAP
http://space.discoverygc.com/navmap/

Why has the Response to DrengrCo attack declaration been deleted?

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 06:24:01 +0000

Seriously, is the bias here that ubiquitous?
https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2296293

Deprecated or pointless contact entries on profile settings.

Sat, 03 Jun 2023 16:39:50 +0000

Probably some of you noticed that the forum profile settings has entries to fill contact information for some platforms, like Skype, Discord or Google Hangouts, the last one being no longer useful as Google killed that service (they love doing that) like five months ago and it's not like a lot of people used it before that, there's an ICQ number entry as well, I didn't even knew ICQ existed before that and I know a lot of niche chat platforms, I'd say it's safe to assume that one is of not much use as well.

My suggestion would be that these entries be either removed entirely or renamed so they point to other platforms, such as Matrix, XMPP, or even IRC (lmao) as these are mostly useless right now, should be an easy fix as well. The ICQ entry does not allow input of non-numerical characters by the way.

Table BBCode with user-defined border colour

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:16:45 +0000

Hello

Currently the table BBCode is always shown with the blue border. This is cool if your writeup/template is blue, but otherwise it looks out of place and you might have to resort to floats (which are ok but also if you want to clearfix them in order not to break the layout you need to use table which looks like a blue horizontal line like this

Would it be possible to add a BBCode [table=color] which lets the user define the border color? (It'd be even nicer if the mycode regex allowed for transparent as a possible value since that would allow also for using tables to clearfix floats)

I suspect the current [table] would have to be kept for backwards compatibility

Thanks

Some strange periodical freezes win 10

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 09:55:32 +0000

PC:
OS WIN 10 PRO 21H2 build 19044.2006
CPU i5-4430 3.0 Ghz
GPU MSI 1050 ti GAMING X
RAM 16 gb DDR3 1600

PING 90-100 (couple of years playn at 100 and its normal for me)

System state:

Problem:
Permanent little freezes once in a 2-3 seconds. modern games are runin perfectly and this grandpas childhood game is freezing??
How it can be?

Btw on this pc runing WIN 7 (my 2nd OS installed) - everything is ok and no problem there

Reports and the lack of response from the staff team

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 03:40:14 +0000

Reports and the lack of response from the staff team

Foreword

¤¤¤¤¤¤¤This is something I have noticed while reporting actions I have found worthy of being reported. You make the report, put the screenshot(s), or video(s), you make SURE to follow the TEMPLATE, because it has to be more stringent and rigorous than filing your taxes or press charges against an individual or company (ironically) - and you're not SURE it will be even be processed, since it is a black box to the majority of the player, to my understanding.

¤¤¤¤¤However, as opposed to when you mess (this swearwords censorship is driving me nuts) up your taxes, or get evicted - you actually get a notice, just like when you get sanctioned. But, the individual who filed the report, does not receive a message telling him that the report was found to be correct or wrong, and for what reasons.

Example from Twitter

Yes, yes, but how would that work?

¤¤¤¤¤¤¤While Twitter's - this dumpster fire of a social media website - moderation is mostly done by personnel aided by tools dedicated to that-- *cough* moderators *cough*, Twitter acknowledges your report(s), and contacts you to confirm or infirm that your report(s) was/were relevant and/or deemed violating their rules. It would be actually very simple to put in practice. Since you, for example, have the liberty to deny applications for developers after months of "interviews", the moderators should be able to send a message explaining why your report(s) were denied.

¤¤¤¤¤¤¤Now, you may ask about the relevancy of such a thing put in place. Well, I will give you two simple words: not being as exasperating as a HR director not replying to your application for a job, and respect - respect for the person who often went out of their way to write and send the report(s), sometimes, in with good intentions, such as new players.

¤¤¤¤¤¤¤The goal of a report is punitive, naturally, but it is most punitive when the person keeps doing that thing, if it had a closer parallel to the world's justice system, it would be rehabilitative; as the first sanction is generally just a notice in your cargo (I don't remember if it's still the case), and beamed into Bastille until you confirm on this very forum you've read the rules, or for people like me who applied and got interviewed for a ridiculous amount of time only to get told that I wasn't liked by the dev lead, mess with the game folder that is used to play online.

Proposed solution

¤¤¤¤¤¤¤The proposed solution is simple. As the moderators and administrators do their votes on the report, they ask one of them to send a DM to the person who reported and explain either in layman's terms, or just laconically - laconically would be the best for both parties, the reason(s) for the confirmation or infirmation of the report. That's it. Please refer to how Twitter does it. It's a few sentences long. What would be even better would be to have enclosed a copy of your report, since it is visible only by moderators and above.

Afterword

¤¤¤¤¤¤¤This thread is aimed at moderators, staff members, and administrators as mainly a suggestion and a constructive criticism of the current system of reporting players for breaking the rules. This thread is not looking for players' comments because it will inevitably degrade into «Am Right And You Are Wrong» - therefore, I will only reply to the aforementioned individuals if they decide to, and deliberately ignore the comments. Please excuse me for doing this, but not only do I not have time nor motivation to participate in dick measuring contests, or pointless arguing, this is me proposing something to the people in charge publicly.

¤¤¤¤¤Hopefully this will help clear out some frustration people can get while reporting - such as, but not limited to: "was that screenshot clear enough? Did I explain it enough? OH BLIMEY O'REILLY! I FORGOT TO ADD SOMETHING", that sort of stuff.

Additional content (trigger warning: humor)

Thank you for reading. Cheers.

Also, if it's in the wrong forum or place, please move it instead of deleting it, it would be ironic to confirm the both the main (minor) problem and also the insinuated critics (I triple-checked, they do not violate any laws)

Now that, indeed, would be ironic.

Make the signature hr more subtle

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 12:30:03 +0000

The

that separates posts from signatures is uggo. Currently it is this very on the nose #d3d3d3 which is brighter than post text and makes the post not flow gently into a signature but separated with THIS MASSIVE GIGANTIC WHITE LINE

I suggest making it a little subtler, with a dimmer gray colour and more margins on the sides so that it actually looks as it should. Also, we could restrict max width of the hr to be 700px to make it the same as the max sig width in the rules

(To do this, find the global.css stylesheet and around line 2143 find the hr.signaturehr class and replace it with this

Code:
hr.signaturehr {

    border-top: 1px solid #444;

    max-width: 700px;

    margin-left: auto;

    margin-right: auto;

    height: 0px;

}

Discuss

New website?

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:14:31 +0000

I found this website template which I think someone with some free time and creativity could make good use of for Discovery.

A particular demo page I personally like - https://next-gen.webflow.io/games/strategy

Utilising only 0.1% of the playerbase?

Sat, 17 Jul 2021 13:09:02 +0000

Hello.

6 Years ago I made this thread asking if you had the ability to email forum members.

Its pretty disappointing to see such an obvious resource still not being utilised, yet people still standing around going "How can we save discovery"

There is a single 150 player server to fill... A server of a game that i'd be hard pressed to find somebody who didnt love it at one point. Granted mentioning 'Discovery' to quite a few people you see them look as though they've just been stabbed in the gut, sudden burst of intense pain as though a thousand bad memories came back all at once. But then once that has passed you actually talk to them about the things they used to do and about long forgotten epic battles or RP and they remember that they did actually enjoy themselves quite a lot.

Even if upon receiving an email from discovery 75% of them openly belly laughed until they were red in the face at the prospect of coming back here.

There are almost 28,000 forum members.

The average server players is lucky to hit 30 even on a weekend in the middle of a pandemic where you cant go anywhere, you have the power to fix this.

The Graphics are still great.
The Gameplay is still *chefs kiss*
The Roleplay is still good.

You're all still clearly working hard on it, you just released a new patch. This should have gone out in a newsletter.

Sending out Newsletters to every member of the forum would mean that even if only 0.5% of the users came back to take a look you'd at least have a full server for a little while.

DO. IT.

Weird color combination in forum

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:30:27 +0000

Title

Well, I open the forum and this weird colors are not in place and the forum for mow looks a bit weird any idea how to fix it?

Here an example

And thank you

Indent Function

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 21:30:15 +0000

Is it possible to make a button for this? Continuously having to type

Code:
[indent][/indent][indent][/indent][indent][/indent][indent][/indent][indent][/indent]

is a chore.

Techcompat table

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 03:48:02 +0000

Under Player Utilities, Technology Chart should probably redirect to https://discoverygc.com/techcompat/techcompat_table.php instead of Mactan Network which is already linked.