Posted by: boggo2300
« on: September 23, 2014, 04:46:15 PM »Braben is a amazing. Even to this day I can't help but be awestruck at Elite 2 containing a galaxy 1:1 sized (pretty big Galaxy...), Newtonian physics, even the music it had as well, all that stuff in one floppy disk...
Just amazing really.
It makes me sad that Elite Dangerous won't really have much of the same stuff as Elite 2, mainly because you can't have a fast-forward time button in a multiplayer game and ships travelling at super fast speeds might make the game very difficult to play.
Wish I could afford the beta but glad I kick-started it and looking forward to the release.
They work around that with "supercruise" which is basically using your Hyperspace drive in-system, allowing you to travel many times c. The game effect is pretty much the same as the time dilation in Frontier, and First Encounter but with pretty special effects, the systems are still gigantic, and even supercruising around say a quaternary system can take quite awhile!