Best Outer Space flying/mmo game ?

BumbleBee · Mar 8, 2012

the economy is community driven. it's a unique feature.

ShiBDiB · Mar 8, 2012

BumbleBee said:
the economy is community driven. it's a unique feature.

and like I just said, you dont have to give a damn about the economy outside of how much the parts on that guys ship you just blew up will go for.

BumbleBee · Mar 8, 2012

do they still restart the server every morning?

RoutedScripter · Mar 8, 2012

Thanks for all suggestion guys!

I miss the times of air combat games (rouge squadron, Apache ..etc ) when it was actually with proper joystick support, im not asking for a 1:1 simulation, just the heck more advanced than freaking left right up down and fire controls.

Hopefully Ace Combat comes to WiiU at least , probably wont to PC.

Because im pissed on BF3 how buggy and arcadey those Jets are and just ....

Crazykenny · Mar 8, 2012

E.V.E Online, no doubt.

Yes, they still have a daily downtime for servermaintenance. Which is only 20min or so.

Ahhzz · Mar 8, 2012

Lochban1088 said:
For thouse of us that love elite type games i can hiley recomend egosofts X- seriers of games having played them all for many moons there basically elite braught up to date. Clear skys gentlemen

I played Elite on an Apple WAAAAAY back when, and some early PC's... loved that game... Still have the box upstairs next to The Elder Scrolls:Arena

Downloaded Freespace 2 and the OSP this morn before I left for work, will play some this weekend and check it out. Also going to check out the Evochron demo and see if it's worth the $25. Man... Torchlight 2 has GOT to come out soon, my bank account is getting pounded trying to find something to fill the empty void heheh

xenocide · Mar 8, 2012

EVE Online is more like a job than a game.

Crazykenny · Mar 8, 2012

xenocide said:
EVE Online is more like a job than a game.

That totally depends on how you play.

Ahhzz · Mar 8, 2012

Which is why I finally gave up on WoW..... Anyone looked at the upcoming Planetside 2?

NAVI_Z · Mar 8, 2012

wow! no one mentioned Sins Of A Solar Empire. similar to EVE online, but w/out the monthly

subscription. :toast:

Ahhzz · Mar 8, 2012

True, true.. I'd forgotten.. but SOSE doesn't have the flight sim to it. It's more of a .... Civilization in space...

NinkobEi · Mar 8, 2012

NAVI_Z said:
wow! no one mentioned Sins Of A Solar Empire. similar to EVE online, but w/out the monthly

subscription.

WHAT? How is Sins of a Solar Empire in ANY WAY similar to Eve? SOASE is a STRATEGY game where you research tech ala starcraft and control fleets of ships and send them to attack other AI players ships. Eve is completely different. lol.

Crazykenny · Mar 8, 2012

SOASE can only be seen as a RTS version of E.V.E if you really wanna compare the two.

xenocide · Mar 8, 2012

Ahhzz said:
True, true.. I'd forgotten.. but SOSE doesn't have the flight sim to it. It's more of a .... Civilization in space...

No, that was a game by the name of Alpha Centauri. One of the greatest Simulation games ever created. I am still waiting for a sequel\remake of that game using modern technology. It would be incredible...

NinkobEi · Mar 8, 2012

xenocide said:
No, that was a game by the name of Alpha Centauri. One of the greatest Simulation games ever created. I am still waiting for a sequel\remake of that game using modern technology. It would be incredible...

Sword of the Stars 2 is close as it gets I think. But its a bit buggy

Ahhzz · Mar 8, 2012

xenocide said:
No, that was a game by the name of Alpha Centauri. One of the greatest Simulation games ever created. I am still waiting for a sequel\remake of that game using modern technology. It would be incredible...

Point

, and an excellent game

Still, my point was that SOSE was more of an RTS (Age of Empires might be a closer analogy

), than a space flight sim/fighter.

kuroikenshi · Mar 8, 2012

The problem with EVE (maybe not a problem for some) is that its not Twitch... you just click to a location and your ship goes there... I am under the assumption that the OP wants a twitch game.

As most have posted, there if Freelancer which is a great game and some mods out there that really change a lot of things. Black Prophecy is ok... the company isn't doing too hot right now so it may not be around much longer. You could go on Steam and look at the X3 series. If you want a quick fix, you could also look at Ace Online . Its a F2P space type shooter.

Hope you find something to your liking! :toast:

ironwolf · Mar 8, 2012

Echoing what some others here have said, a new Wing Commander series reboot and/or a X-Wing/Tie fighter series reboot would firmly snatch money from my wallet faster than a hooker. :pimp:

I did bust out my FS2 discs and installed the FS2 Open stuff. Gonna play with it. Gotta bust out and dust off ye ole flight stick LOL.

yogurt_21 · Mar 8, 2012

looks like the wingcommander reboot that goes live 3/22 would be the best bet for the op.

I do play and like Star Trek online, but like EVE the game can become tedious and start to feel like work if you get too into it.

there honestly hasn't been much in the flying department since the late 90's that goes for space and air. My joystick has been collecting dust for a long long time.

BumbleBee · Mar 8, 2012

Crazykenny said:
E.V.E Online, no doubt.

Yes, they still have a daily downtime for servermaintenance. Which is only 20min or so.

oh wow I haven't played since the second or third expansion.. surprised they haven't found a way around that.

ShiBDiB · Mar 8, 2012

BumbleBee said:
oh wow I haven't played since the second or third expansion.. surprised they haven't found a way around that.

around that? Please just dont comment on the game anymore as clearly your biased against it.

BumbleBee · Mar 8, 2012

biased? I spent 2 years of my life playing it :laugh:

Yukikaze · Mar 8, 2012

EVE Online sets the bar for space-based MMOs and you should accept no substitute.

But as said, it isn't a joystick-control flight-sim like game. Combat is more akin to Nexus: The Jupiter Incident (just without the ability to pause, and with human, and thus smart(er) opponents).

The other thing to keep in mind about EVE is that it is a cold, harsh, massive, complicated universe. If you can't be bothered with complexity, or are afraid of others peeing in "your" sandbox, then do not apply!

TheMailMan78 · Mar 8, 2012

Tie Fighter or Rebel assault....../thread.

Ahhzz · Mar 8, 2012

ShiBDiB said:
around that? Please just dont comment on the game anymore as clearly your biased against it.

I'm afraid I have to differ here. Not liking an aspect of the game doesn't make you biased one way or the other, it just means you have an opinion. By your logic, you should not comment either, as you're obviously biased for it (by having an opinion).

And in defense of disliking it in general, even WoW doesn't have to restart the servers every day, heck even in early closed beta we didn't have to worry about a reboot EVERY day, just sometimes 4 or 5 times an hour :roll:

I wouldn't be overly fond of a need to reboot the server every day either....

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