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Space Combat Sims
Does anyone know of a website that has a listing of recent space combat sims and/or MMORPGs based on space? Kind of like an index that has 'em. Or if you'd like just mention one you think is cool, followed by a url. I'm just curious to see how Vendetta stacks up against other games of the genre.
Vendetta rules. There's Jumpgate, AceOfAngels, some microsoft thing that I forget, Freelancer, and a few others. I'll look for links later..
EVE www.eve-online.com
Played it for a few months with sf, got bored stoped playing, decided to go back and see what was up and after seeing that nothing had changed after 3 months quit again after 5 days. Its realy just a mining simulator with the bots seeming like they attack you like clockwork. In terms of combat its point and click with "dice".
The one thing I did like about it was the promotion of guilds. You have to be in one if you ever want to do anything of importance. But beyond that you just mine and mine and mine and click a button to learn "skills" some of which take months to learn. But the comunity was nice and I was never Pkd untill i offered half my money for someone to kill me and my pod :D
But if that is your type of game try it out. I had some fun while doing it. And for a good corperation try asking the good folks at New Begining Incorperated (located in Jarsaland) and tell em Wyeth sent ya :P
Played it for a few months with sf, got bored stoped playing, decided to go back and see what was up and after seeing that nothing had changed after 3 months quit again after 5 days. Its realy just a mining simulator with the bots seeming like they attack you like clockwork. In terms of combat its point and click with "dice".
The one thing I did like about it was the promotion of guilds. You have to be in one if you ever want to do anything of importance. But beyond that you just mine and mine and mine and click a button to learn "skills" some of which take months to learn. But the comunity was nice and I was never Pkd untill i offered half my money for someone to kill me and my pod :D
But if that is your type of game try it out. I had some fun while doing it. And for a good corperation try asking the good folks at New Begining Incorperated (located in Jarsaland) and tell em Wyeth sent ya :P
I knew something was dicey with eve-online once I looked at the screens and there wasn't any first person blowin' up stuff. Oh well, good thing we got vendetta :D
Search for Hypereon, if you need cheering up...
Elite! Oh wait, you said recent... :P
Hypereon looks like it needs some graphical updates, I don't really like square stars.
Those are stars? I thought they were leftovers from when I sneezed all over my screen. D'oh!
Keep it up. Thanks guys. Going to try a search for space combat sims on IGN (yeah, I hate it too) to see if some more come up. Will post results if anything staggeringly cool shows up.
EDIT: Found this cool screenshot of a game called Battle Isle: DarkSpace. Although the game has been cancelled, I thought i'd still show you a nice way of handling waypoints (such as for Vendetta's sector indicators) without taking up a lot of the HUD space.
http://pcmedia.ign.com/media/previews/image/bids002.jpg
That's all it takes. Tiny arrow triangles to show where they are, if they are out of your FOV. And when they're in view, they're not quarter-sized circles, but instead small rectangles with a brief description of what it is. Excellent!
Keep it up. Thanks guys. Going to try a search for space combat sims on IGN (yeah, I hate it too) to see if some more come up. Will post results if anything staggeringly cool shows up.
EDIT: Found this cool screenshot of a game called Battle Isle: DarkSpace. Although the game has been cancelled, I thought i'd still show you a nice way of handling waypoints (such as for Vendetta's sector indicators) without taking up a lot of the HUD space.
http://pcmedia.ign.com/media/previews/image/bids002.jpg
That's all it takes. Tiny arrow triangles to show where they are, if they are out of your FOV. And when they're in view, they're not quarter-sized circles, but instead small rectangles with a brief description of what it is. Excellent!