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# Saw this news on The Register this morning.
A lot of people rightly pointed out the game description sounds like EVE Online. Admittedly combat in Elite wasn't point and click.

I'd like to see a proper space battle game which relied on proper physics, though I don't think it would have mass appeal.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Tue 6 Nov 2012, 12:49, archived)
# Sort of like Babylon 5 had
With thrusters and momentum and stuff. That could be fun.
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#
www.frontierastro.co.uk/Hires/hiresffe.html

This is rather nice, though like FFE you have to play with a joystick because the keyboard controls were wrecked between Frontier and FFE.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 6 Nov 2012, 12:58, archived)
# Frontier Elite II had more or less real physics
if you ignore the lasers. A lot of people complained that combat was too tough. My only complaint is that the AI is far too ready to ram you, leading me to believe that the future of space travel lies with Kamikaze pilots.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 6 Nov 2012, 12:56, archived)
# Asteroids almost has real physics, but you still slow down after a bit.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Tue 6 Nov 2012, 13:50, archived)
# As a self-confessed Elite II zealot
his physics model was pretty solid, you slow down under the action of gravity or thrusters and nothing else. You can also entertain yourself slingshotting around the Sun but if you try you're most likely to burn up instead. You can break lightspeed though. Silly Braben.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 6 Nov 2012, 13:58, archived)
# I found Elite II to be pretty awful.
A classic example of a CPU biting off more than it can chew.
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# :( I love it, more than any other game other than the amazingly CPU-killing GP2
Cramming that game into about a megabye was a fantastic achievement too, though it's true you needed a DX2/66 if you wanted to get the game running smoothly. And it demanded 610k of free memory.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Tue 6 Nov 2012, 14:26, archived)
# My dissertation game design had a lot of this in it.
However making the 2D prototype in MMF2 was hard enough (I'm not a programmer), I might try the full game in a few years.
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