sheepdragon: Freelancer? That game is awesome, and have tons of cool mods.
AlphaMonkey: I've been working my way through the Freelancer campaign again. I... might be in for this. I've never actually tried the multi for this game, though. No idea how it even works.
Heh, I've played through the singleplayer campaign 12 times (8 times vanilla, 4 times with various mods). Visited every system, flown every ship (made a save for everyone of them) and so on. This over the course of a few months when I had nothing else to play (not that I actually felt like playing anything else) some years ago.
Vanilla multiplayer sets you up on planet Manhatten, with a Starflier and a bit of cash, and you're free to do anything you'd like. With mods it varies.