24-01-2005 14:00									#1
	Recomend me an Elite type of game... Remove this text

Title say it all...

I love Elite, but FFE just doesnt cut the deal anymore. Please recomend something similar, that can be run on a high end notebook.

Clue: I played Privateer:The darkening and loved it.

	25-01-2005 00:52									#2
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There is a current thread that dealt with Frontier, Elite 2, which was free or very very cheap. Have you tried that?

	25-01-2005 13:17									#3
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I played FFE the last couple of weeks. My eyes hurt....
No really, its not challenging anymore....

I need something new.

	26-01-2005 03:59									#4
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X beyond the Frontier or the new version er..X2 (at a guess).

Or going back a bit Hardware. Graphics look a bit ropey now but plot, different styles of playing and generally a game i enjoyed.

	26-01-2005 09:54									#5
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Escape Velocity. It's very similar to Elite but more of in 2D as opposite to 3D. I really enjoy it. You can get a demo from http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/

	26-01-2005 17:00									#6
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How about the origonal game? Its still the most difficult(i find)
you can get it free from here: http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/index.htm

I'd go with the 'Elite plus' version. Its a shame but the Elite's are, i'm finding, still the best versions of a game of this type.

hardwar is pretty good. X and/or X2 just seems a little lacking in fun? Escape Velocity has had good things said about it, and once my FFE frenzy has waned a little i'm going to check it out

Last edited by child of Thor on 26-01-2005 at 17:21

	26-01-2005 17:04									#7
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Check on Nexus, the Jupiter Incident on www.NexusTheGame.com

It's a 3D Space Combat simulator between capital ships

	26-01-2005 22:30									#8
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WOW.

I am going to buy this NOW.

-Jam

	27-01-2005 04:17									#9
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quote: Originally posted by child of Thor How about the origonal game? Its still the most difficult(i find) you can get it free from here: http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/index.htm

I still remember the first time a friend showed me this new game he bought for his C64 way back in '85. Until then I thought computer games was just whacking a small square across the screen and hoping you'd hit something.

Hehe, 15 minutes just loading the game with a tape deck. If everything went right that is

I never looked back. I even used a C64 emulator last year to play Elite again until I ranked elite again. Best game ever!

And thanks to the other thread I'm playing FFE again. And visited alt.fan.elite again too

And sadly I must admit that you are right that the Elite games are still the best in their genre. Almost ten years later

	27-01-2005 04:54									#10
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I tried Elite before, but I found it hard to control. Old graphics in space-fliers where you can move in 3-dimensions aren't very easy to deal with.

	27-01-2005 12:26									#11
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Thanks.....

Just to mention... I played all three Elite games.... A lot.

I want something new....

	28-01-2005 00:24									#12
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Maybe you need to check out a new genre.

	28-01-2005 08:59									#13
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Pirates! Kind of similar but different enough.

	28-01-2005 09:03									#14
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X2

There's another sequel coming out soon, I think.

	28-01-2005 14:56									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Jamski WOW. I am going to buy this NOW. -Jam

Just tell me when you want an MP match.

	28-01-2005 19:10									#16
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quote: Originally posted by GeoModder Check on Nexus, the Jupiter Incident on www.NexusTheGame.com It's a 3D Space Combat simulator between capital ships

Looks like its been polished up quite a bit since it got dropped as Imperium Galactica III. 18 months more development time seems to have been well spent if it plays as well as it looks.

	28-01-2005 22:07									#17
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Oh, it plays very good in my opinion. But or there are a lot of people with pirate copies on the forum or ones system specs must be pretty mainstream for there are quite a bit of people with troubles (initially) running the game.

Keep in mind that it is NOT an RTS anymore, it is strictly mission based (I suppose you know a bit of the discussion between original publisher and developper?). OTOH, the community is starting to get missions done and a few homemade tools are getting around next to the ones delivered with the retail.

	28-01-2005 23:18									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Barinthus Pirates! Kind of similar but different enough.

or the Patrician games(2 or 3)? maybe even more like an elite game? Its all tradeing-upgrade ship etc, i think its the kind of game Sid would have liked Pirates to be, if the hardware was upto it at the time

And Hueij,

yep when i saw Elite on the BBC my friend had, it really did blow you away. I was always very jelous as i never owned a home computer that could run Elite untill my Amiga and then Frontier came out.

I've only just discovered FFE for the first time recently, sometimes being behind the times has its advantages

	30-01-2005 00:00									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Grumbold Looks like its been polished up quite a bit since it got dropped as Imperium Galactica III. 18 months more development time seems to have been well spent if it plays as well as it looks.

I've been playing this all day, its awesome.

A bit linear, perhaps, but the ways the game plays and looks are both SOOOOO smooth. The load-out choices have a big effect on tactics, the voice actors are all Scottish for some reason and the whole thing is pretty cool.

I just found out you can set the camera to follow individual fighters on a tight zoom. Wheeeeeeee!

-Jam

	01-02-2005 13:33									#20
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AUUUUGH

Why do they make me use Internet Explorer which doesn't even manage to submit a post without losing it ?

Anyway, try the Privateer remake on top of Vega Strike. Releases of both of these games are rather sporadic, which is a shame because both are being developed actively... if you can deal with CVS and want to try out Vega Strike, I recommend looking at http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/p...owtoCheckoutCvs - there's a win32 build of the game's binaries in the data4.x module.

	01-02-2005 15:23									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Jamski I've been playing this all day, its awesome. A bit linear, perhaps....edit..... -Jam

Yeah - its my one gripe about the Imperium Galactica games. I played 1+2 intensively many years back. Loved them both, really fun games to play - just a shame you always felt a little 'rail-roaded'. I'll have a look at this new version though, once my specs are upto it

	01-02-2005 16:17									#22
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Space Rangers 1/2. Will be released in UK this April, Russian versions already available, English ***** (I mean try and buy) edition of SR1 is downloadable

	01-02-2005 19:28									#23
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I knew when I saw Muxec's name as the last poster, Space Rangers was going to be mentioned. I swear, he must've made the damn game or something.


Anyways, I didn't think space rangers was an "elite" type of game at all... from everything I've seen it looks more like an arcade game.

	01-02-2005 22:09									#24
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quote: Originally posted by child of Thor Yeah - its my one gripe about the Imperium Galactica games. I played 1+2 intensively many years back. Loved them both, really fun games to play - just a shame you always felt a little 'rail-roaded'. I'll have a look at this new version though, once my specs are upto it

Its really NOTHING like the IG games at all. No base building, no research... hell, no Imperium to control! You manage a small fleet of ships in detailed, beautiful and magnificent space combat. The engine is awesome.

OK, the game only does one thing, but it does it with true style.

It needs a sequel where you get to build fleets and stations and research stuff (i.e. Space : Total War)

-Jam

	01-02-2005 22:32									#25
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Have you tried X2: The threat, Jamski? You can build and manage space stations (that produce goods) and battle fleets. Of course, it takes a while to get to that point since you start off with nothign but a scout ship.

	02-02-2005 00:54									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Jamski It needs a sequel where you get to build fleets and stations and research stuff (i.e. Space : Total War) -Jam

Well, the good news is that the game is quite moddable... even building things can be implemented so the developpers claimed.

But it needs someone to start on that. Sofar the most successfull mod seems to be a Star Trek one.

	02-02-2005 03:17									#27
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There's got to be a star trek mod for every single game in existance.

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A Star Trek mod to Star Wars?

	02-02-2005 14:43									#29
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Blasphemy!!


@General Ludd, how differernt is X2 compared to the first game in the series?
I picked up X and its expansion pack 'Beyond the frontier'(or something like that) last week, and played about 5-6hrs so far - i'm finding it a little unsatisfying? Did they change stuff in X2 to make it more enjoyable?

I'm still going to keep going with X when i find the time - i'm sure it must pick up and get better as you get used to it. Well i hope so anyway.

	02-02-2005 19:46									#30
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I didn't play the first, so I couldn't say.

I could see how X2 could be unsatisfying, though - a great deal of the game can be flying from one station to the other with a transport ship hauling goods. But there is also a storyline that you can follow, pirates and aliens to evade, and the promise of eventually buying your own stations with automated transport ships to sell goods, and such.