Drunken Lancer's Logbook
Drunken Log - Feb '07 "Home is where there's good beer." by GunbeardProcyon is a server that deserves an honorable mention for being a stable tweaked vanilla FL with lots of useful features (banking, player looting and sendcash!) and a great site and forum. Watch out though, that ping limit means modemmers will have to be US only. In other news, the Drunken Lancers have gotten some new members and they may be popping up on the site in the future. More ship reviews and other stuff is forthcoming, so stay tuned it looks like there's be a monthly trickle instead of a yearly trickle.
Drunken Log - November 05 "Sobering Up" by Gunbeard
Well, i've spent a whole bunch o time tidying up the site, organizing the guides and re-writing from a lot of notes and old text files. Not many adventures to tell of, apart from "RAW" server admins being very strict about censorship and calling each other "Your Honour" and "Sir".. Ii miss the old judges, they had more respect from the players, mainly because they were more down-to-earth. Learn this, raw, learn it!
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Log - October 2005 "Emigration equals ETERNAL DAMNATION" |
Drunken Log -
08/02/04 "The Search for Panu" by Drunklancer
I received this mail a while ago:
"YOU CANNOT BELIEVE HOW MUCH I AM LAUGHING RIGHT
NOW!!!!!!!!
okay, look at your drunken logs; Drunken Log - 23/03/04
"Who is Panu?"
On my travels through Freelancer, i've come across some strange Server
Descriptions, but this one really begs the question, Who is Panu?
panu. is my friend put that up to try and get him to come
online. i nearly laughed myself into concussion when i saw that.
just letting you know
hilarious!!!"
So we found who set the server up.. but i wonder if Panu will ever get in touch?
Drunken Log -
27/07/04 "The Beast of Cortez" by Gunbeard
That bloody beast of cortez has been putting my
pirating past to shame. The other night he was sitting in Cortez roaring
at travellers when a humpback he shot at disappeared
and changed characters.. and then came after him in a
fully equipped Sabre. Haha.
So for a whole half hour they battled, and
this was not a newbie opponent, they used engine kill, drift, reverse
thrust, every trick in the book to try to
bring The Beast down.. but nothing worked..
except of course the server disconnection. Bah!!
The problem was that the Sabre hammered away with Nomad weapons that use
no power at all.. definitely upping the odds.
So now it seems The Beast has gotten the attention of the major
players. Bravo, ya scurvy swab.
Click
here for the Beast's page of encounter screenshots..
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Log - 19/07/04 "A Bloody Long Time Ago" |
Drunken Log -
14/04/04 "Use of Humor to Represent Pain"
Slowly but
surely the site is turning into something resembling an alternative guide
to Freelancer. Good, because that's what i wanted. No lists of locations
for jumpholes wrecks and such, no ultimate ship/weapon/shield reviews,
you can get that elsewhere.
I found a ship, damaged beyond repair, floating in space doing nothing
at all. Not much else happened. There, wasn't that exciting?
- Drunklancer
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Drunken
Log - 09/04/04 "The Knowledge" On a personal note.. tagless players are the essence of Freelancer. You can be anything and anyone. A tagless player on your scanner could be hostile or friendly, it's up to them. This is both exciting and interesting, adding to the atmosphere of the game. I like wondering where people's loyalties lie. It can be boring when everyone has a tag that tells you what they are. Jeez, wake up and grow up! |
Drunken Log -
01/04/04 "Use of Humor to Represent Pain"
Right, i
need to do something with the FAQ section of the site - its bloody useless.
I might put the player tips and non-piloting specific stuff there, to
make it an Info page instead of a rather poor FAQ. Notice in the title
i spelt Humour the american way because its just more efficient. And more
stupid.
Keep an eye out for an old Drunken Lancer named Preacher. If you see him,
give him a shout.
Drunken Log -
30/03/04 "Poverty & Death"
Poor Sabre.
Alone and destitute, he ended his life and then left the server.
HAHAHA!!1111
Drunken Log -
27/03/04 "Munchkins"
Right, i've
had it with these idiots, here's
the rant.
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Drunken
Log - 25/03/04 "Tales from the Gunbeard Part Two" "Right,
well there were two chaps who had a [Pirates] clan tag, so there's
me, a pirate, and i'm in a Wolfhound with a full compliment of
Pyros 2 & 3 but only a class 4 graviton shield, right?" "Right,
thanks for giving away what ships they were flying." "So
we were throwing pirate banter aharr and all that, back and forth
until i asked what ships they had, just out of curiosity. SO anyways
they said "That would be tellin..." hehe.. and you KNOW
that's like an open challenge to me, so here's what happened next.." "Hehe,
so they got a quick lesson in flying with Engine Kill, because
if i'd have used normal movement i would've probably been killed.
They were in two Barracudas and had Skyrails or something similar.
Particle weapons anyhow.. totally stripped my shields so i had
to use batteries once. They used bots and batteries so i thought
okay have it your way." "They
left without saying a word! Bastards!" |
Drunken Log -
24/03/04 "Tales from the Gunbeard Part One"
Well there's
been plenty of events, including multiple instances of angry
german swearing, as mentioned in the last entry. This time a chase
ensued over two thirds of sirius, with Gunbeard
as the pursuer. Here's a quote..
"I mustve chased him across twenty systems, or just under that. I was in Bering and he was in California so I ended up chasing him all the way down through Bretonia and into Rheinland, then up into Kusari and the Omicron systems where he tried to give me the slip."
I found out that the guy he was chasing had gone mental after his humpback had been turned inside out by Gunbeard himself, so he decided to run off his mouth. I can't even screenshot what was said.. put it this way the language is about 50 years out of date and way past civilised conversation. lol.
"I finally caught him in Sigma-19 as he dashed out of a gas cloud and headed for Honshu. Icould have disrupted the lane but I shot a cruise disruptor to tag him and then let him go, besides he could have destroyed me out of spite, he had wasted his cash on an Eagle just to protect himself.. haha. So anyway I followed him to Honshu and claimed victory. Needless to say he didn't quite beleive i'd found him. I even fired a warning shot.. haha."
Drunken
Log - 23/03/04 "Who is Panu?"
On my travels
through Freelancer, i've come across some strange Server Descriptions,
but this one really begs the question, Who is Panu?
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Drunken
Log - 21/03/04 "Danger on the High Seas" |
Drunken Log -
20/03/04 "Story So Far"
So things
have finally calmed down with the site, and i'm getting a good bunch of
visitors, enough to convince me updating should be at least twice weekly.
Might do some more trading tips, perhaps with steve, and maybe a little
'obscure trade route' player mail-in page where people can mail in their
weirdest trade routes or their shortest/longest ones, who knows? I'd have
to put careful spoiler warnings around it though.
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Drunken
Log - 13/03/04 "Job Shortage" |
Drunken Log -
12/03/04 "Mad Rush"
Well i finally
started looking around for sites to link to the datapad, and then i thought
why not submit some news to Lancer's Reactor,
after all id done a whole heap of work. Lo and behold i got 300
visitors in a day, and geocities data transfer limit ran
out , so i uploaded the whole site
to my own more stable webspace.
Then the visitors died down and now i have 2 sites to update, but i guess
its better than before as now more peeps have a chance of checking out
the datapad, especially with all those bloody PHP
template sites wanting to be the next Reactor.
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Drunken
Log - 10/03/04 "Terrible" |
Drunken Log -
22/02/04 "I Want a Gunboat"
I'd like
to fly one of these..
Roarrr!!11 *BLAZAP BLAZAP*
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Drunken
Log - 20/01/04 "Errors Everywhere" |
Drunken Log -
03/01/04
Thinking
of putting a screenshot/journal sortof section here, with nice shots of
the game taken from everyday stuff. Gets a bit boring when loads of players
all have top level ships top level weapons and only hang around exclusive
systems except when theyre headed to NY to give new players a million
creds. I think there's more space between their ears than in the whole
of Sirius.
Drunken Log -
12/09/03
A lot of
people check the reputation section - thats always a favorite for me cos
rep can make or break multiplayer.. the thing is that if you are friendly
with someone you can buy their best equip. To get along better in the
game you should be neutral with as many as possible, but then you cant
get anyones best equipment, so its a tough deal.
If you want the
best a faction has to offer you have to make friends with them, whjich
involves making enemies with someone else. Each faction has equipment
deals with various companies but some modify and construct their own,
which means you could reduce your options to get some good stuff if you
make the wrong friends.
A bonus is that if you make enemies with a faction when you defend yourself
or attack their ships they drop some of their stuff, but its touch and
go plus its usually damaged, and if its a high grade weapon that you cant
fit on your slots its basically an expensive toy.
Drunken Log -
1/09/03
Shiver me
timbers that was an awesome trade run. I'll write about it but i'll disguise
the name of my merchandise so it doesn't spoil it for those who don't
know. Fixed the site layout a bit, thinking of doing a Freeport section
as a forum, but need to find a free forum provider thats reliable. Wish
grog was readily available, cheap, and satisfying.
Log Entry - 29/8/03
Time to
sort out the site into categories that are easy to navigate and make sense
within the game's whole ethos.. thingy.
Log Entry - 29/8/03
Sir Warwick's
server is turning out to be a real investment. I'm known as Preacher in
this universe, and discovered piracy for the first time, in a Rhino, no
less. I'm learning the ropes, tagging along with a more experienced pilot
named AML. Decided to break off on my own and head through Rheinland space,
into the Sigma systems. Not sure what i'll find, this is all new to me,
but this Hawaii liner looks nice. Flew into a blue dwarf's corona today,
last time i'll make that mistake, i was watching my ship health but no
change, then kaboom.