player-driven persistent-world MMOG set in space. awards.

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » December 13th, 2007, 14:52

LOVE BAGS (sometimes punchbags if your lucky)

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » December 13th, 2007, 15:00

GUSSET!

eion · Post by **eion** » December 13th, 2007, 15:01

FLAPS!

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » December 13th, 2007, 15:02

Lady Bumps

friznit · Post by **friznit** » December 13th, 2007, 15:58

I installed FL and a load of 3rd party stuff recently (Star Wars, B5 etc). It was mildly amusing for a while playing with wabbit and one or two others, but it sadly lacked any sort of longevity. Otherwise a pretty good game.

Other than the unmentionable space based MMO that we're all very aware of now, are there actually any others out there that have, for one reason or another, not made it into the limelight? I can't really think of any...

(Also: crevice!)

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » December 13th, 2007, 16:01

SMEG!

Post by **deject** » December 13th, 2007, 16:26

friznit wrote:I installed FL and a load of 3rd party stuff recently (Star Wars, B5 etc). It was mildly amusing for a while playing with wabbit and one or two others, but it sadly lacked any sort of longevity. Otherwise a pretty good game.

Other than the unmentionable space based MMO that we're all very aware of now, are there actually any others out there that have, for one reason or another, not made it into the limelight? I can't really think of any...

(Also: crevice!)

I love Freelancer mostly for the single player part. It was proper brilliant. I never got the chance to play much multiplayer, and I've never played EvE soI have no idea which one would be more fun.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » December 13th, 2007, 16:52

friznit wrote:Other than the unmentionable space based MMO that we're all very aware of now, are there actually any others out there that have, for one reason or another, not made it into the limelight? I can't really think of any...

(Also: crevice!)

FreeSpace. Bloody brilliant. I dare say it hasn't stood the test of time very well, mind.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » December 13th, 2007, 17:01

Oh yes, Freespace and Freespace 2. There was a really rather good Babylon 5 total conversion for FS2 which had a fully coop multiplayer campaign (not quite MMO, but at least more than singe player). But yeah, when I fired it up a few weeks back it was a little too grainy

Post by **Dog Pants** » December 13th, 2007, 17:37

Freespace was great. I loved the massive capital ships carving each other up with beam lasers.

centerededgedesign

I am curious, but has anyone here heard of Trade Wars 2000?
It was text based, but could be played by multiple players simultaneously over bulletin board sites. You could build space stations, trade, settle planets and quite a few other things I've not seen in games to date, but I was reminded of it when I first heard of Eve.

There was an interesting dark element as well, hidden within the space stations. You could enter hidden locations and get info on how to rob space stations, clear your name, and smuggle items. It was an interesting part of the game I am surprised isn't a part of Eve, since it was to some effect a part of FL.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » December 13th, 2007, 17:44

I think the problem with EVE is it is the first M in MMONG. It's a little too massive for my liking.

Post by **Dog Pants** » December 13th, 2007, 17:50

Trade Wars sounds vaguely familiar. I think I might have heard it cited as a great influence of modern MMONGs or something.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » December 13th, 2007, 18:14

friznit wrote:Oh yes, Freespace and Freespace 2. There was a really rather good Babylon 5 total conversion for FS2 which had a fully coop multiplayer campaign (not quite MMO, but at least more than singe player). But yeah, when I fired it up a few weeks back it was a little too grainy

FreeSpace 2 source was released, there's a big modding scene.....andddddd......some kind people have released high res textures, redone the 3D engine and remoddled and updated all the main ships.

It looks quite alright now, and used to rape my x800 GTO in nebulas due to the masssive amount of particle effects.

Post by **FatherJack** » December 13th, 2007, 19:26

Dark Star One and X3: Reunion promised to be offline Eve crossed with Freelancer/Elite but ultimately seemed to fail for me.

DSO's flying was a little too Elite/X-Wing/TIE Fighter for me - Freelancer showed how mouse flight can be fun, and hasn't been matched in my view. In DSO you had to hold a mouse button down a lot, which was a nightmare if you had two screens.

X3 had promise, but was ultimately too big for me. While the back of the box had me dreaming of owning huge space stations, planets and massive ships - it quickly became apparent that you would have to spend a similar amount of time to achieve this as you would to set up a POS in 0.0 space in Eve. Except you would be on your own. No friends, no help and no-one to show off to.

Akiakaiu · Post by **Akiakaiu** » December 13th, 2007, 19:58

Trade Wars was great fun. I used to play it on my friends BBS over my 400 baud modem. I had found it somewhere on the interwebs again and played it for a few months till I lost interest in it. It's one of those games where you have so many moves per day, so it takes a bit to get up and running properly. You work your way up or down the ladder and become a beloved bounty hunter or an ebil pirate with a big bounty on your head. Lot's of trading and fighting, and quite a few ship classes to work through. It's kinda like the MUD version of EvE.

I never looked at freelancer or the X series, may have to give em a go, now FreeSpace, heh, I haven't thought of that since my 286.