Discovery Freelancer Website

Discovery Freelancer has made it into the Mod of the Year Top-100 awards of the year 2010! This is the fourth time we enter the Top-100, previous years being 2006, 2007 and 2009. The Mod of the Year (MOTY) contest is 9th annual event held by ModDB.com website.

I’d like to thank everyone who voted, everyone who plays on Discovery servers, and fellow developers of the Disco Dev Team who made 4.85 possible and now work on the slow-running 4.86. Thanks to the whole Freelancer community for continuous support and help that we enjoyed with Discovery. Special thanks goes to our server team who kept the server alive and running for the past years.

There are two Freelancer mods in the Top-100 of released mods (Crossfire and Discovery) and one Freelancer mod in the unreleased category (Freewords: Tides of War).

However, the vote is not over yet. Now the winners of the 2010 Mod of the Year awards are being chosen, and you can vote for any number of mods again.

To vote in Top-100, do the following:
I. Register on ModDB.com (if you are not already registered) and log in.
If you don’t register, your vote won’t be counted in most cases (unless there’s a tie), so make sure you are logged in before you vote.

II. Open the Top-100 listing: http://www.moddb.com/events/2010-mod-of-th…r-awards/top100
Click Freelancer section to open it.

III. Click Vote button on the left. The “VOTE” picture:
will change to 
That’s all. You can vote for any number of mods in the Top-100 for released and unlreleased mods, including all other Freelancer mods.

Many thanks again for your continuous support! As for some of the other news that you may note:

- Discovery official news are now transferred to Twitter. Follow us: http://twitter.com/discofreelancer
- We will run some ads on Discovery Freelancer official website (http://discoveryfl.com). The profits from the ads will be added to our server donations reserve. Although it is likely that they will be removed at some point due to very low profits.
- We will soon continue to publish storyline posts and developer screenshots for Discovery 4.86. Stay tuned!

The annual Mod of the Year-2010 (MOTY-2010) contest on ModDB.com website has started some time ago. This is the 9th time the event is held, and you still got 4 days to cast your vote.

Discovery is participating in the event for 4 years already. The Top-100 includes mods for all games, and only two or three Freelancer mods can get through. Competition is increasing, and whether we will reach the top or not depends entirely on your participation and help!

To vote, you need to do the following:
I. Register on ModDB.com (if you are not already registered) and log in.
Registration is easy. If you don’t register, your vote won’t be counted in most cases (unless there’s a tie), so make sure you are logged in before you vote.

II. Open Discovery profile on ModDB: http://www.moddb.com/mods/discovery-freelancer

III. Scroll down towards the middle of the page. You will see a large “VOTE FOR MOD” button. Press it.

Now your vote is cast.

Registration on ModDB is not needed only to vote for Discovery, of course. You can vote for as many other mods as you like, Freelancer mods in particular; leave your comments and set your rating for Discovery, and browse other mods for Freelancer and numerous other games.

In 2006, 2007 and 2009, Discovery Freelancer has reached the MOTY Top-100, and has received a Genre Award as the best simulation mod in 2006.

Igromania, the largest Russian video gaming magazine, has featured Discovery as one of the 10 top mods released or updated in the year 2009. The article is available in issue 4’2010 released in the beginning of April. The same article in slightly shortened form was also published in a biweekly Igromania Light magazine in the end of March.

You can view the scan of the article here. It is in Russian. Unfortunately, Igiss was listed as the only developer insted of the Disco Dev Team because that’s how dev information is currently displayed on ModDB.com. I’ll be working to fix that issue in future.

We’re listed among the following mods (links lead to ModDB): NeoTokyo for Half-Life 2, Star Wars: Galactic Warfare for Call of Duty: MW2, FIFA Total Reality 09 for Fifa Manager 09, Median XL for Diablo, Third Age – Total War for Medieval 2: Total War, Out of Hell for Unreal Tournament 2004, Cube Experimental for Fallout 3, MechWarrior: Living Legends for Crysis, and Nameless Mod for Deux Ex. Since media attention to mods is mostly limited to a few most popular action games that have multiple well-known mods (mainly Half-Life and Half-Life 2), it’s good to see a selection that contains multiple games representing multiple genres, featuring older titles among new ones.

With a circulation of 180,000, Igromania is the largest gaming magazine not only in Russia but in Europe as well. The magazine is published since 1997. The circulation of Igromania Light is 25,000. For both monthly and biweekly edition, Discovery Freelancer 4.85 full version was featured on the magazines’ DVD disk along with Freelancer Mod Manager.

Discovery Freelancer has reached the Top-100 of the 2009 Mod of the Year contest run by ModDB. After a brief interruption in 2008, Discovery is back to ModDB’s annual Top-100 where the mod was already present in 2006 and 2007. Great news, and huge thanks for everyone who cast their votes for Discovery and other Freelancer mods!

During the 2009′s MOTY contest, there were 80,000 votes for more than 3,500 mods and indie games, so this Top-100 position is already an award of its own. Also, we are one of only four Freelancer mods that got into the Top-100. Now we should vote again and try to reach the highest awards of Mod of the Year contest.

To vote, you need to do the following:
I. Register on ModDB.com (if you are not already registered) and log in.
Registration is easy. If you don’t register, your vote won’t be counted in most cases. If you log in after you vote, you may not be allowed to vote again, so make sure you are logged in before you vote!

II. Open the Top-100 page on ModDB.com website. In the “Released” category, there are three mods:
Crossfire 1.8,
Discovery Freelancer and
Shattered Worlds

In the “Upcoming” category, there is one mod:
Freeworlds: Tides of War

I’m not sure how many mods you can vote for. In any case, you should know where to start! To vote, just press “VOTE” on the Top-100 page (NOT in the mod profile) next to the mod you prefer. When the image will change to “VOTED”, your vote is cast.

Today, the annual Mod of the Year-2009 (MOTY-2009) contest on ModDB.com website has started. This is the 8th year when the contest is held.

Discovery is participating in the event for 4 years already. The Top-100 includes mods for all games, and only two or three Freelancer mods can get through. Competition is increasing, and whether we will reach the top or not depends entirely on your participation and help!

To vote, you need to do the following:

I. Register on ModDB.com (if you are not already registered) and log in.
Registration is easy. If you don’t register, your vote won’t be counted in most cases (unless there’s a tie), so make sure you are logged in before you vote.

II. Open Discovery profile on ModDB: http://www.moddb.com/mods/discovery-freelancer

III. Scroll down towards the middle of the page. You will see a large “VOTE FOR MOD” button. Press it.

Now your vote is cast.

Registration on ModDB is not needed only to vote for Discovery, of course. You can vote for as many other mods as you like, leave your comments and set your rating for Discovery, and browse other mods for Freelancer and numerous other games.

We will also run a screenshot contest on this forum soon. The best screenshots will be uploaded on ModDB for thousands of visitors to see. Also, if you have any hi-quality videos shot on Discovery servers, you are most welcome to contact us and submit your work to ModDB.

In 2006 and 2007, Discovery Freelancer has reached the MOTY Top-100, and has received a Genre Award as the best simulation mod in 2006.