Looking to create a new mod.

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I do like vanilla Freelancer, but it is a bit lacking.

Therefore, I want to create a mod, where haven't decided how much it should cover.
PvP would be the core of the mod, aiming to make offer more possibilities than vanilla does.
Remaking the universe, factions and adding light role play (pirates, hunters, traders, miners and freelancer) is less of a priority.

The main goal of the mod is to remake all of the existing light, heavy and very heavy fighters, to create a balance (no re-modeling, possibly re-model hitboxes).
All of the weapons would also be modified, rather than having 1 weapon that is the best, letting weapons have advantages and disadvantages.
By for example making a weapon have a longer range, but do less damage, and so on.

With these mods Nomad weapons would be removed, and eagle would be heavily nerfed. Falcon would instead offer the same maneuverability, suffering just from a slight damage output reduction.

I'm wondering if you guys would want to play with these mods, as I would like to know if anyone would play at all if I actually made this mod :p.
I could do all the editing by myself if needed, except for FLhook coding.
Help would be appreciated though.

edit: I forgot to mention that I'd want to add "game modes" too.
One idea is to make one that is pretty much like TDM, first to 20 points wins. But to make it more dynamic, each team has to select one of their players to be worth 3 points for the enemy team to kill instead of 1.

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Maybe your idea could have been successful in 2006 but in my opinion now it is way too late to create this kind of mod. Freelancer is dying and the HHC is the largest (close to) Vanilla-Server. You won't find many players for your mod and in addition you need a server - which costs a lot of money.

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Go ahead, but you should visit www.the-starport.net
They would listen and help you, and don't tell you it's pointless.

Freelancer has a lot of potential and a good mod could revive it. (With enough advertisement)

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Yes, sadly it's dying :/... Discovery still has a lot of players, though, not sure if they like PvP at all.
Alternatively everything (ships weapons) could be free and the server just serve as a PvP ground, where systems would offer different game modes.
Though, I'm guessing, as you said, it's too late to make something new. There's also the issue with people having to drop their beloved eagle ^^"

Getting a server wouldn't be an issue.