Author Topic: Online space simulator games (Read 1003 times)

CyranoAH · « **Reply #30 on:** January 30, 2002, 04:38:46 AM »

Hehe not as long as it's SOOOOOOOOOOO expensive to be out there

:D:D:D

Oh, and about the future... I think I'm as far off as you can be. Nobody knows what the future will be, and that's the good thing about it

Matrix-alike? Blade Runner-alike? T2 perhaps? Nonsense, just wait and see

Daniel, aka Cyrano

R4M · « **Reply #31 on:** January 30, 2002, 05:08:22 AM »

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1)G-Forces: The only game to have ever tried to have G-forces and newtonian stuff was TERMINUS. And it was never finished. A real shame, the game showed promise

Absolutely false. "Frontier: Elite 2" and "Frontier: First encounters" both were space simulators with full newtonian mechanics represented in a very very cool way.

Both games are currently freeware, so you can look for them. A bit lacking in graphics now, but both are well worth a try (were bug-ridden when they first appeared, now the freeware versions are fully patched and stable).

deSelys · « **Reply #32 on:** January 30, 2002, 06:13:30 AM »

I agree that the future is open and that everything is possible. However, from our past history and evolution, we can try to guess how it will probably be like.

Take a look at how the fighters evolved since WWI: always bigger, heavier, faster. Compare a Sopwith Camel in size and weight with a P51, than compare this P51 with a F15...
Range of weapons and sensors has increased dramatically too.

Saying that combat spaceship will be small and will fight at short distances is one of the less probable hypothesis. It would be much safer to stay in a big ship at extreme range and launch unmanned smart drones which will do the dirty work and take all the risks (besides, unmanned vehicles would be able to withstand much higher acceleration than manned fighters).

There is one constant tho: man's imagination to make life miserable to other men is infinite.

~~As usual, edited for typos and weird use of Shakespeare's tongue~~

Tac · « **Reply #33 on:** January 30, 2002, 08:38:23 AM »

never heard of those games r4m, will look them up, thanks

R4M · « **Reply #34 on:** January 30, 2002, 02:23:10 PM »

WHAT? you never heard about David Braven's Elite?!...well, those are its sequels

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Tac, look in any search engine by the words Elite, Frontier and FFE. You can also look in the website: http://www.frontier.co.uk/

They used to be DOS games, but there was an special application to make FFE run under windows, wich is VERY cool (I have it in my HD).

Give it a try...really immersing. I still love it and is a 1995 game!