The planet is only there for the single player campaign. You cannot travel to it in sandbox mode.
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You will be assigned a new FLID once you attempt a multiplayer game with a server. If you used to have one and have reinstalled Freelancer, chances are you will have lost the game the server was saved on, but you may be able to recover it based on the server admin permissions. Remember to check your FLID and write it down should you ever decide to reinstall Freelancer.
Despite the fact that Freelancer is 10 years old and can be bought for as little as AU$6.95 (seen at EB Games store Melbourne, VIC. Australia), Microsoft have still to release the source code for developers to modify the engine completely and release it as a freeware game. This is typical of Microsoft as Freelancer has a massive online support and development community... they are still making money from the game.
The entire game runs from a huge list of INI files, but they are compressed. You can get a program called BINI to decompress them and then edit anything with Notepad. Be careful what you change or you can corrupt the game. Otherwise, find the Freelancer.ini file in My Documents\My Games\Freelancer and locate the line that says DifficultyScale = 1.0. Change the number to 0.0 so that no weapons (and most planets and suns) can harm you. Change the number above 1.0 to make the game more dangerous.
There are no programs to help you cheat except for ones that help you locate areas, items, bases, etc. Be warned that the use of a popular program called DataStorm has been disallowed when used in multiplayer. These servers can detect them and you will be booted or banned from the server. You can, however, use a program called Freelancer Explorer to view the system, base and faction properties undetected by the game servers, but you can not change anything or it will be detected by the server instantly, resulting in a ban. Altering any ini files are also detectable by the game servers. This can only be done in single player mode.
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