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ry ry
StateCorp
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Posted - 2007.05.11 09:57:00 -
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Derek 'anger management' Smart's Battlecruiser series has shades of Eve. or vice versa.
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Dufas
Amarr Dark-Rising Fallen Souls
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Posted - 2007.05.11 10:15:00 -
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Yahoo checkers!!!! __________
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Tonkin
D00M. Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2007.05.11 10:19:00 -
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Originally by: Nalf X3: Reunion. Combat is more twitch based/space shooter type stuff, but you can build your own stations and have your own automated fleet of traders/combat ships. Ships range from fighters to freighters and carriers/destroyers
i got that when it came out, i've tried playing it and i realised its gona take months to get into it, i think my love life cant take a other dint. damn eve
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Sheriff Jones
Amarr Space Perverts and Forum Warriors United Cult of War
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Posted - 2007.05.11 13:23:00 -
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Originally by: Sinder Ohm Star control 2 ! lol I havent seen that name for ages,
Hey, it's still the best spacegame out there
The new 3DO version is out of this world.
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Splagada
Minmatar Tides of Silence Hydra Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.11 13:26:00 -
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Edited by: Splagada on 11/05/2007 13:23:42
>It looks like Bob fleet entered system ! >Do you want to (F)ight, (S)urrender to them, or (R)un like a little girl >R >You've been podkilled! Play again(Y/N) ------
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Dr Slice
kleptomaniacs
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Posted - 2007.05.11 13:47:00 -
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Check this out:
Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar
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Dave White
coracao ardente Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2007.05.11 13:48:00 -
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Edited by: Dave White on 11/05/2007 13:46:32 I've always found Microsoft's Freelancer somewhat similair to EVE. It's what I played most of the time before EVE, actually.
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Ryan Scouse'UK
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Posted - 2007.05.11 13:58:00 -
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freelancer is amazin until you get that sabre ship or sumthing with some faction pirate turrets that dont use any cap or whatever the thing is in Freelancer.. & they are very deadly .. once you got enuff money & standing to gain this ship .. freelancer is pretty much over..
bad gfx.. but very good game play back in its day :)
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Stakhanov
Shih Yang Tong
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Posted - 2007.05.11 14:32:00 -
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Vega Strike.
An open source (therefore free) space sim , that features trade , smuggling and bounty hunting. Very vast universe (more so than the Eve galaxy I'd say) where you are free to warp around. Realistic physics , which includes lethal collisions so ship handling is more hardcore
Travelling is slower but requires skill , so does shooting.
Dynamic NPC politics , which means you can find yourself in the middle of a fleet battle in a previously quiet system. Standings based NPC attitudes.
All in all , a very good game.
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Shaemell Buttleson
Darwin With Attitude RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2007.05.11 14:33:00 -
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Space invaders.
Since all this is about sovreignty etc!
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Corporati Capitalis
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Posted - 2007.05.11 14:59:00 -
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Originally by: Amonshige
Originally by: Chavu Only one of my favorite games of all time, I give to you: Escape Velocity.
Yes!
EV 1 and 2 are only available for Macs, according to the shareware page linked in this thread.
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Elspeth Vigneron
Caldari Phoenix Logistics Industries
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Posted - 2007.05.11 15:06:00 -
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Originally by: Slickdrac As in, very similar concept, but not MMO?
Elite, but you need something antique to run it. X2 and X3. Space Rangers 2. There are some others I didn't play because I was into FRPs for a while.
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Lord WarATron
Amarr Black Nova Corp Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.05.11 15:14:00 -
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Edited by: Lord WarATron on 11/05/2007 15:12:11
Originally by: ry ry Derek 'anger management' Smart's Battlecruiser series has shades of Eve. or vice versa.
Yeah - But be extreamly careful mentioning Derek Smart. If you think CAOD is bad, then you aint see the entorage that followed Mr Smart himself!
But anyway - How eve combat should be = Nexus The Jupiter Incident --
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Alora Venoda
Caldari GalTech
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Posted - 2007.05.11 15:17:00 -
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when i first started playing EVE i thought to myself:
"this is almost IDENTICAL to Escape Velocity, except it is 3D."
both games have "jumps" between a grid star systems, with one or more stations to dock in.
both games have shields/armor/structure combat model
both games have courier missions
etc
although Escape Velocity did NOT have stargates and you could jump to another system from anywhere as long as you were far enough away from a planet - and it used up some kind of fuel. it also did not have anything like deadspaces. and combat was much more twitchy.
there were no skills in Escape Velocity but getting the money to afford that better ship was not always easy. modules did not use slots, but they took up "space" which was limited for each ship.
~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ Take away the risk and it would make flying around in space utterly pointless.
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Beef Hardslab
The 5 Amigo's LLC.
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Posted - 2007.05.11 15:19:00 -
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Originally by: Corporati Capitalis
Originally by: Amonshige
Originally by: Chavu Only one of my favorite games of all time, I give to you: Escape Velocity.
Yes!
EV 1 and 2 are only available for Macs, according to the shareware page linked in this thread.
You want Escape Velocity: Nova
and +1 vote for EV - Eve has so many similarities to it, it's like CCP took it and made a modern MMO out of it. I used to play EV for hours on end - on both Mac and PC. It's also where I got my name - if you play EV and let it pick random names, they were all pretty amusing. Why there should be a breathalyzer to login to Eve:
Originally by: Alliaanna Dalaii Podding my own alt in a gatecamp while drunk, he was carrying a hauler full of tech II goods, Oops.
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ry ry
StateCorp
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Posted - 2007.05.11 15:20:00 -
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Edited by: ry ry on 11/05/2007 15:20:41
Quote: Yeah - But be extreamly careful mentioning Derek Smart. If you think CAOD is bad, then you aint see the entorage that followed Mr Smart himself!
In my wildest dreams, Dr Derek is reading this very forum RIGHT NOW composing a 4 page hate-rant defending his games against any perceived slight (they were ****). Possibly involving a fictitious Phd.
derek smart is a ******* god amongst men.
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Janu Hull
Caldari Order of Z Industries
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Posted - 2007.05.11 15:27:00 -
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Originally by: Sheriff Jones
Originally by: Sinder Ohm Star control 2 ! lol I havent seen that name for ages,
Hey, it's still the best spacegame out there
The new 3DO version is out of this world.
I miss the Syrene...
This is my sig, there are many others just like it. With me, my sig is worthless. Without (or with even) my sig, I am worthless... |
Corporati Capitalis
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Posted - 2007.05.11 15:28:00 -
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Originally by: Beef Hardslab
Originally by: Corporati Capitalis
Originally by: Amonshige
Originally by: Chavu Only one of my favorite games of all time, I give to you: Escape Velocity.
Yes!
EV 1 and 2 are only available for Macs, according to the shareware page linked in this thread.
You want Escape Velocity: Nova
Yeah, I noticed it was available for windoze too, but I generally prefer playing all games of a series, starting with the first one.
Or are the EV games just too similar to each other and thus there is no point in playing all of them now?
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Lord WarATron
Amarr Black Nova Corp Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2007.05.11 15:41:00 -
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Originally by: ry ry Edited by: ry ry on 11/05/2007 15:20:41
Quote: Yeah - But be extreamly careful mentioning Derek Smart. If you think CAOD is bad, then you aint see the entorage that followed Mr Smart himself!
In my wildest dreams, Dr Derek is reading this very forum RIGHT NOW composing a 4 page hate-rant defending his games against any perceived slight (they were ****). Possibly involving a fictitious Phd.
derek smart is a ******* god amongst men.
Dunno about you, but I am applying padding to coke machines as we speak!
(Non-BC3000 people need to know about the 15 year flamewar Derek Smart was involved in, to understand. Todays CAOD flamers are nothing, nothing to the king) --
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Beef Hardslab
The 5 Amigo's LLC.
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Posted - 2007.05.11 16:16:00 -
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Originally by: Corporati Capitalis Or are the EV games just too similar to each other and thus there is no point in playing all of them now?
IIRC Nova pretty much incorporates the previous games into one version. While I love EV, I think Nova is enough to play - no need to find a Mac to play the previous iterations. Why there should be a breathalyzer to login to Eve:
Originally by: Alliaanna Dalaii Podding my own alt in a gatecamp while drunk, he was carrying a hauler full of tech II goods, Oops.
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Lebowske
M. Corp M. PIRE
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Posted - 2007.05.11 16:17:00 -
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Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers --------------------
- It's better to keep your mouth shut and let people believe you're an idiot, rather than opening it and removing all doubt.
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Missy X
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Posted - 2007.05.11 16:35:00 -
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Edited by: Missy X on 11/05/2007 16:46:41
Many games are similar in ways but Elite is the original game of this type and the most obvious direct inspiration for EVE. Elite was the first game to combine 3D space flight, trading and space piracy, and even included an (almost) unbeatable Concord-style police force for lawbreakers. Elite also has a space physics model that puts EVE and most other space sims to shame, even though the game is over 20 years old.
The sequel to Elite, called Frontier, had an even better physics model but suffered from a primitive version of the same ugly nebulae that EVE has (although in Frontier you could turn the damn nebulae off - EVE devs please take note!). It also had a Milky Way galaxy even bigger than EVE's, lots of ships, different ship fitting options, planetary mining, planetary flight, missions, an even more complex market and the whole game fit on a single 3.5" floppy disk. The combat was a bit crusty and there were bugs and 'gameplay features' that made it less enjoyable than Elite in the long term but damn it was still impresive... much more so than the dissapointingly molly-coddling Freelancer and jst about everything after it... I never played Frontier First Encounters but I heard it was buggy as hell...
Most importantly, both Elite and Frontier were 'sandbox' style games where you could set your own goals, do things at your own pace and there was no single defined objective. Very few other space games truly fit into this category apart from these two, and EVE.
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Haceldema
Minmatar Uberfiend
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Posted - 2007.05.11 16:51:00 -
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Pretty much all been mentioned by other posters methinks:
Elite Frontier Elite Frontier First Encounters (FFE) Vega Strike Stars Privateer games Hardwar ... and many more.
If you dig FFE out on the web be sure to look for JJFFE or Aniso's mod, they fixed alot of the bugs that where in the original. Various other elite versions out there as well including some GL ones, a mac/ linux one too, was called Oolite I think.
The privateer games have been remade in the Vega Strike engine, brought up to date quite a bit.
Ok, Hardwar isn't strictly in space but it does have alot of the elements I look for in a decent space game. Wish there was a sequel to it.
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Elgar Lightfoot
Lightfoot Industries
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Posted - 2007.05.11 16:51:00 -
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Freelancer
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Kastlaadia
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Posted - 2007.05.11 17:17:00 -
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Originally by: Diashi If you played Elite then most likly the MMO Jupmgate (Netdevil) too. Fantastic space pvp and trading game with an excellent flight model. However unlike CCP the developers were very slow to add contect etc and with the advent of Earth and Beyond and then the massive Eve Online Beta it died. Jumpgate had a US and EU server which in its prime was hitting 500 online, not bad considering it has about 50 systems compared to the new Eve galaxy of 5000! Both games are not a direct comparison but based on similiar concepts.
Dam I miss that game, then I get in my Navy Mega and say Jumpgate who?
I have to agree. Jumpgate was really great. They even got to the stage of offering P.O.S too.
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Unfamed II
FinFleet
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Posted - 2007.05.11 17:46:00 -
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Originally by: Chavu Only one of my favorite games of all time, I give to you: Escape Velocity.
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/strategy.html
Very similar to concept of Eve-Online:
Quote:
Escape Velocity spans a number of genres, combining elements of classic "trading" games, arcade space shoot-outs, and strategy simulations. Whether you choose to build a trading empire, aid the Rebellion in a civil war, or strike out on your own as a ruthless pirate, Escape Velocity provides a multitude of options for the game connoisseur. This open-ended gameplay allows each player to chart their own course as they play; there's no "right" way to play Escape Velocity, as long as you have fun! Numerous sub-plots fill Escape Velocity's world; your choices affect the story's development, guaranteeing that each game will be different from the last. You'll have the opportunity to infiltrate hostile military bases, ferry emergency supplies to distant star systems, rescue passengers from stranded cruise ships, stop alien invaders, and more. In addition, Escape Velocity sports an open game engine. Future scenario designers will be able to create their own worlds for other players to explore...
3 Escape Velocity games out there. It's all 2D and the games are 5-10 years old. But I had immense fun playing them, they are shareware so if you like it, buy a license for like $15-20. I even made a mission pack or two for the game, very fun.
I thought X3 had a lot of potential, but it has such a steep learning curve and the interface is crazy so I never got into it. Seems fun though.
Signed, one of the best mac games I've played. - - Seriously, it's not that great being an amarr, is it?
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Itimer Real
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Posted - 2007.05.11 18:45:00 -
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Check a list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_simulation
I played Star Crusader, some kind of wc clone, (not so) old game for dos and had lots of fun with it.
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