I have to be honest and say that I am getting rather annoyed at the lack of information regarding Space Shuttle Mission Simulator 2 from Exciting Simulations. I have been looking forward to this for a long time, but there is almost total silence on the forum from the developers. There was a post by one of the moderators on June 12 that stated "stay tuned, exciting things are on the way". Five months later.........nothing.

X Rebirth looks interesting though it seems to be more of an economy / trading simulator with some combat, rather than an actual space simulation with real physics. Still looks pretty interesting.

I'm amazed at what Star Citizen has accomplished. They have raised over $20MILLION and alot of it has come from their Hanger Module and it's virtual planes. For those that don't know they have planes from about $50US to over $200US and a quick scan on Youtube will give you an idea of how much money people are investing in it. I think it's funny for someone to pay 200 dollars for a spaceship. There is no real-world science, tests, manuals, etc, just design and fly. I thought paying 70 dollars for a virtual real world AC was bad, but 200 dollars for some made up ship is ridiculous. IMHO.

They probably have enough money to build a second hangar now :lol:

man x.. just looks amazing.. I will check out star as well.. never knew any of this stuff existed.. awesome thread.

 

I've been wanting some trading game thing.. to replace Traveller pen/paper rpg

They are not 'just paying for a spaceship' The purpose is to show support and help rebuild a genre that was dying out, besides nobody is forced to pledge $200 and to many people in the world that is not a great deal of money. I shudder when I think of how much I have spent in FS over the years.

 

I would happily spend $200+ to support the new version of Elite, purely because the developer gave me and many others countless hours of enjoyment in our youth.

 

Space sim fans and flight sim fans are very alike, the big differance is no decent platform for space sim fans exist. Imagine if we never had FS9/FSX or X plane?

I've been a huge fan of Orbiter for years. I love how you can basically do whatever you want. The support community there is great. You can find a forum for basically anything and there's always a ton of people willing to help you out and answer questions.

 

On top of that, the development community is amazing. There's an unbelievable amount of dev's and even groups/teams of dev's working on amazing products. Some are purely fiction, while the only thing others are lacking IRL is funding.

 

The Apollo NASSP addon is intense. If you really want to know why you're doing what you're doing, you're gonna have to read a lot of the original Apollo FCOM's, as well as follow along with the original checklists.

 

It takes a lot of time, but it's worth it.

 

As far as procedural sims go, I'd have to side with SSM2007. I've been waiting/hoping for SSM2, but at this point who knows if it'll ever be released. 

 

 

rather than an actual space simulation with real physics

 

That can be pretty boring, look at the combat in Elite 2 and 3, it redefined completely pointless.  For anything interstellar; you really have to take some scientific liberties. 

 

Real physics works best (for games) on a solar system / interplanetary level, for that i would suggest something like Kerbal Space simulator, it's not a study sim but still very entertaining and realistic enough. 

And of course there's always Lunar Flight..

 

http://www.shovsoft.com/lunarflight/?page_id=216

 

Took me ages to get the hang of piloting the lunar module until I switched to practice mode..which gives unlimited fuel and allows you to explore without time restrictions. 

Good fun and a very atmospheric simulator (pardon the pun)

Tomorrow is Rebirth Day! Got it off GreenmanGaming for 20% off.

 

Quick overview of the previous stories.

i'm a beta tester for ELITE DANGEROUS. made by the same guy who made the original Elite. you can go here to check it out. http://elite.frontier.co.uk/

i'm a beta tester for ELITE DANGEROUS. made by the same guy who made the original Elite. you can go here to check it out. http://elite.frontier.co.uk/

 

I was thinking of helping fund Elite, but I went thru a heavy space sim funding spree , StarCitizen, StarSector,Starpoint Gemini2, etc..... Might have to revisit Elite in a few.

 

 

made by the same guy who made the original Elite

 

One of the guys...don't forget Ian Bell

One of the guys...don't forget Ian Bell

Ian Bell is no longer in the industry. he is a music producer or something now and wants nothing to do with elite. its a shame.