Calming the shakes

[Steve Walmsley]

I've recently bought Elite Dangerous, so playing that while waiting for C# Aurora

Is it a successor to Elite?  How does it compare to Elite/OOlite?

John

PS - Please take care in your response, as it could lead to the loss of untold hours of productivity

I wasn't aware of Oolite until now

I have played a few hours of Elite Dangerous and it is fun but it hasn't grabbed me yet in the same way as the 80s original or the 90s remake. I've been playing Aurora all weekend.

[boggo2300]

I've recently bought Elite Dangerous, so playing that while waiting for C# Aurora

Is it a successor to Elite?  How does it compare to Elite/OOlite?

John

PS - Please take care in your response, as it could lead to the loss of untold hours of productivity

I wasn't aware of Oolite until now

I have played a few hours of Elite Dangerous and it is fun but it hasn't grabbed me yet in the same way as the 80s original or the 90s remake. I've been playing Aurora all weekend.

OOLite is basically the original game with lots of mods available

Elite Dangerous is the Elite MMO by the original author, it has the entire galaxy there, all of it, in devastating detail,  like I said before, Explore, explore, explore, some of the sights you will see would render Roy Batty speechless...

I'm about 3000 lightyears from the nearest inhabited system, haven't seen any player or non-player humans in weeks,  but the things I've seen...

[Bremen]

I've recently bought Elite Dangerous, so playing that while waiting for C# Aurora

Is it a successor to Elite?  How does it compare to Elite/OOlite?

John

PS - Please take care in your response, as it could lead to the loss of untold hours of productivity

I wasn't aware of Oolite until now

I have played a few hours of Elite Dangerous and it is fun but it hasn't grabbed me yet in the same way as the 80s original or the 90s remake. I've been playing Aurora all weekend.

That was basically my experience with Elite Dangerous. There was nothing wrong with it, and I can totally see the appeal of flying around doing stuff in a huge universe, but it never really grabbed me. It's probably one of those "If I was stranded on a deserted island and could only have one game" titles, but for me it has trouble competing with more fleshed out, less sandboxy games.

[sloanjh]

I've recently bought Elite Dangerous, so playing that while waiting for C# Aurora

Is it a successor to Elite?  How does it compare to Elite/OOlite?

John

PS - Please take care in your response, as it could lead to the loss of untold hours of productivity

I wasn't aware of Oolite until now

I have played a few hours of Elite Dangerous and it is fun but it hasn't grabbed me yet in the same way as the 80s original or the 90s remake. I've been playing Aurora all weekend.

I actually heard of it (Oolite) on the Aurora board - Welchbloke started a thread 10 years ago: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=1595.0  Wow time flies.  Not sure why I stopped playing it - in the thread I said something about my wrist giving me trouble, although it's hard to be sure because some of the text in the posts in the thread were lost due to the DB corruption a while back.

Thanks to everyone for the feedback on Elite Dangerous - I think the main thing that grabbed me was the camera rotation interface with the little lines to indicate Z on the 2D map; if they didn't duplicate that just right I suspect I'd be less enthused as well.

John

[chrislocke2000]

I spent a small fortune on the kick starter for Elite as was super keen to see it produced (I think I have a space station named after me somewhere in the game - CSSE I think, as a consequence. However never managed to get into when it launched as having finally gotten out of Eve did not need yet another time sink. 

[MultiVitamin]

Honestly Elite Dangerous didn't grab me as much because I like to go inside the ships, explore them and interact with them, and from what I've seen you can really do that in Elite. I've been playing a lot of Star Citizen though, it's really fun and actually a bit more stable now, and the major patches for it always add something new, a new mechanic, a new terrain feature, etc. I always just wind up getting sucked into the game. The most recent update added cave's, FPS mining and a law system, and a previous one added Blackmarket, so I always have fun exploring the caves, mining stuff out, then going to do drug runs and dodge to police to make that sweet aUEC.

[Zincat]

Started a VB Aurora new game, because I was having the shakes for C# Aurora...
15 years in... and nothing is happening 

I mean literally. 30 systems fully explored and I found nothing. No NPRs, no ruins, no anomalies, no swarm, no precursors,  no invaders (ok, not complaining about this one)

Not a single thing.
Come on game, throw me something 

[Deutschbag]

Started a new game, because I was having the shakes for C# Aurora...
15 years in... and nothing is happening 

I mean literally. 30 systems fully explored and I found nothing. No NPRs, no ruins, no anomalies, no swarm, no precursors,  no invaders (ok, not complaining about this one)

Not a single thing.
Come on game, throw me something 

And that's when a wormhole opens up right next to Earth.

[Zincat]

Started a new game, because I was having the shakes for C# Aurora...
15 years in... and nothing is happening 

I mean literally. 30 systems fully explored and I found nothing. No NPRs, no ruins, no anomalies, no swarm, no precursors,  no invaders (ok, not complaining about this one)

Not a single thing.
Come on game, throw me something 

And that's when a wormhole opens up right next to Earth.

Hey at least it woul be "FUN"

[muzzlehead]

I am playing Command Modern Operations, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Dwarf Fortress and Unreal World to get calm the shakes. . . . .  I need my C# Aurora 4x. . . . . . .   or I need A4x Anonymous. . .  I am Muzzlehead and I am a space porn addict

[Deutschbag]

How does CMO compare to CMANO? Is it worth the $80 to upgrade?

[vorpal+5]

I'm waiting for C# Aurora by playing Stellaris. It is passable. There are many things that just bother me, like the unique station above the system main star (no choice where you put it and if you want to add more on some planets, etc.). The lack of supply for ships (unlimited range) and the very crude planetary based combat ...

But that's still the most complete sci-fi 4X game out there, if you compare to others.

One thing I like though is the flavor some worlds can have. Look at this one:

[Profugo Barbatus]

I was really into Stellaris since launch, went through the whole 2.0 rebuild and everything eagerly, but the population/tile changes, while super interesting to me, turned me off hard when they launched with all the issues that they did. I'm sure they're fixed 'enough' now, but I just haven't been able to bring myself to go back.

Myself, I've been playing Megamek (with MekHQ) and Halo Reach now that its on PC, good times. Mekamek is giving me a good dose of that fine control fun with my mechlab and the full suite of tabletop rules, running my Merc company. Clantech is still way too OP though.

[Deutschbag]

Actually, Stellaris' woes are worse than ever at the moment, even though the game's gameplay is in the best place it's ever been. Right now, mechanically, Stellaris is absolutely amazing -- especially if played with mods. However, mid-late game performance issues often render the game nigh-unplayable past a certain point, and moreover, the new launcher that Paradox has implemented on all their games is an absolute dumpster fire. Bugs upon bugs, mod load order breaking without obvious cause, mods failing to appear on the list or spontaneously disappearing, the launcher freezing or crashing or failing to start the game... It's a disaster, and one that has left me unwilling to try to muddle through the innumerable launcher issues to play the game.

[Profugo Barbatus]

Well, smeg. Good thing there's lots of releases this holiday season. Come tomorrow with Mechwarrior 5 and Boneworks, I should be able to avoid fighting that. I don't think I could play Stellaris without mods, I'm too spoiled with megastructures and gigastructures.