Freelancer

"You...all of you...
why couldn't you
be dealing drugs
like normal people?"

Introduction

This page contains a list of trade routes and challanges I developed during the many hours I spent playing freelancer on the Kokrull UK server in 2003 and 2004. Many thanks to all those involved in the running of the server - feel free to copy and paste any of this onto the kokrull site. This page contains one method of achieving global neutrality and then a list of links to my trade routes. The other things to be found are:

• A Trading Hints page, including a rough guide to what trains are worth blowing up where

• A Quick Start route similar to the Kokrull master route but based on getting a dromedary rather than a humpback

• A Final Thoughts page containing a description of what the ultimate space sim should be like (hopefully this will be Elite IV if it still exists?!?! not played X2 yet...).

I haven't played Freelancer in quite a few years now, so some of this stuff is quite old!

Global Neutrality

Many of the routes require you to be neutral or better with quite a lot of the factions (for survival purposes as well as docking). Achieving neutrality with everyone isn't too tough; from zero kills I managed it by killing:

• 10 Liberty Navy

• 1 Deep Space Engineering

• 6 Bretonia Armed Forces

• 5 Daumann

• 5 Republican

As I say, however, it isn't too tough so do it your own way. Note that unless you have a lot of human enemies it can get a bit dull with complete neutrality on some of the easier routes.

Trade Routes

A list of trade routes and challenges. The duration of these routes are what I think are reasonable estimates assuming you have global neutrality and fly well. The difficulties are rough estimates but obviously depend to a certain extent on your reputation. The profits given are the amount you would roughly make per hour in a dromedary.

• PAINU IN THE AINUS
  Location: Kusari
  Difficulty: Easy
  Length: 12 minutes
  Profit: 1.3 mil per hour

• DON'T MENTION THE WAR...
  Location: Kusari, Border (Sigma), Rheinland
  Difficulty: Relatively Easy
  Length: 31 minutes
  Profit: 1.5 mil per hour

• TRADER'S FOLLY
  Location: Border (Sigma), Edge
  Difficulty: Very Dangerous
  Length: Variable
  Profit: Zero (at best)

• HARLEM GLOBETROTTER
  Location: New York, Independent & Kusari, Border (Sigma), Rheinland, Border (Omega), Bretonia & Independent
  Difficulty: Relatively Easy
  Length: 63 mins
  Profit: 1.1 mil per hour

• ADVANCE TO GO
  Location: Kusari, Border (Sigma), Rheinland
  Difficulty: Moderate
  Length: 20 mins
  Profit: 1.8 mil per hour

• GO BACK TO OLD KENT ROAD
  Location: Liberty, Independent
  Difficulty: Easy
  Length: 26 mins
  Profit: 1.1 mil per hour

• ALIENS FOR TEA, I SEE...
  Location: Kusari, Border (Sigma), Edge (Outcast)
  Difficulty: Tricky
  Length: 24 mins
  Profit: 1.6 mil per hour

• MELRAH GLOBETROTTER
  Location: New York, Independent & Kusari, Border (Sigma), Rheinland, Border (Omega), Bretonia & Independent
  Difficulty: Relatively Easy
  Length: 82 mins
  Profit: 1.1 mil per hour

• BLAME IT ON THE BLACK STAR...
  Location: Kusari, Sigma, Edge, Omega, Bretonia
  Difficulty: Dangerous
  Length: 35 mins
  Profit: 2.0 mil per hour!

• I THINK YOU'RE CRAZY, MAYBE
  Location: Bretonia, Omega, Edge
  Difficulty: Dangerous
  Length: 30 mins
  Profit: 1.9 mil per hour

• TOURIST TRAP
  Location: Bretonia, Omega
  Difficulty: Tricky
  Length: 14 mins
  Profit: 1.8 mil per hour

• ONCE MORE WITH FEELING
  Location: Bretonia, Omega, Edge, Rheinland, Sigma, Kusari
  Difficulty: Dangerous
  Length: 52 mins
  Profit: 1.9 mil per hour

• THE CHICKEN RUN
  Location: Tau, Edge
  Difficulty: Suicidal
  Length: Variable
  Profit: Zero

• AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
  Location: Stops in every system
  Difficulty: Dangerous
  Length: 13hrs
  Profit: 13mil

• SLEIGHT OF HAND
  Location: Edge, Omega, Bretonia
  Difficulty: Dangerous
  Length: 10 mins
  Profit: 50 mil per hour! (sort of)