GLS - My two cents

The official ending date for MS' support of Freelancer is April 8th , 2008
To spite this .. MS is not willing to discuss bringing the GLS back on line.

The long term future of Freelancer is now truly in the hands of the
playing , modding and server operator community.

No matter what you may think of everyone else that you know or have met
during your own personal experience with the Freelancer game,
now is the time to put all of that aside and join the effort to keep
our global community together.

Join The Lancers Reactor.
Read The Lancers Reactor.
Tell Everyone that plays Freelancer to tell Everyone Else that plays Freelancer.

The access to Freelancer Servers for the community is easy.
Connection workarounds and server IP lists are available.
More tools are being developed on the fast track.

The chances of New Players discovering the game is the Real Issue here.
The more people involved at TLR >>> the more Hits on the site >>>>
The more Hits >>> The more prominent the site will remain on the Web >>>>
The more people who can find TLR >>> The longer our Game Life.

Thank you in advance for your involvement.
See you on The Lancers Reactor

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Is it theoretically possible that lancers reactor can make a server with the same IP of the global server, once it shuts down? And then run either the same or similiar global server software, so that it will never truly go down?

You've hit the nail on the head. For your average casual player, not addicts like us, this transition has to be smooth and invisible. Here's the section of freelancer.ini that tells FL where to look for the Global:

[ListServer]
;;;hostname = localhost ; Your local machine
;;;hostname = FLListServer2.dns.corp.microsoft.com ; GUN server in Austin
;;;hostname = 131.107.135.190 ; GUN server in Redmond
hostname = fllistserver.zone.msn.com ; GUN server in Redmond (DNS entry)
port = 2300

See? fllistserver.zone.msn.com is the default location out-of-the-box FL looks for. It can be changed obviously, but any change will leave the casual player behind.

Unless the FL community can get M$ to give the domain name fllistserver.zone.msn.com to a community-run body, like TLR.... OR automatically forward all traffic going to/from fllistserver.zone.msn.com to a community owned listserver, no solution will be 100% effective. Oh, and they need to give or license them the software to run Global.


Currently The Lancers Reactor and Cryosphere (Global Player Rankings) are negotiating with Microsoft.
Lets wish them the best of luck.