How do you cheat level in freelancer

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.