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The Game of My Dreams
Topic Started: Aug 11 2010, 03:10 PM (4,280 Views)
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So basically a Solar System generator? Because you'd not be able to get to anything interesting if the physics were correct.
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Ahem! You can have plenty of fun with proper physics.

A solar system with real planetology is quite interesting. Look at our own. We have hothouse Venus, life-bearing Earth, barren Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with their systems of moons and rings, countless asteroidal and cometary bodies...

For Earthlike worlds, you could even develop a sort of procedural creature creator, sort of like spore but computer-driven, for all sorts of organisms. It could even include rudimentary understanding of evolutionary biology, just as the planet generator would include understanding of planetary geology.

Orbiter is quite good as a simulation of spaceflight, but where it falls short is the other stuff. Planets are flat spheres, there are no clouds, or surface organisms or buildings, and modelling the dynamics of vehicles or people is substandard because, well, it's a space sim, and not a person sim.

The physics engine could be a lot like that of Orbiter though. Include in that the ability to map multiple cubes of space (to fix stability problems at long ranges) and interstellar navigation features like those in Celestia, and you've got a pretty powerful sim.
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I would also like to see ground combat like in Dust 514 which is an add on to EVE....
I mean you could set up a mecenary organisation which could hire ships or you could stock your ships with security details to protect your corporate investments from pirates,rival companies or even alien predators ^_^
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I'm going back to basics.

You people are basically asking for the matrix in space.

Which, admittedly, would be amazing.
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I have Star Trek Online, it's pretty fun. It came with 30 days of play-time upon purchase, so I don't have to pay the $15 a month for the first month (and since I deleted my subscription it made me make, it won't charge me for another month; I'll get a game time card if I really want to play after that). It was only $20, so it wasn't a bad deal (plus Steam gave me some phaser turret thing for free, which was cool). The space parts aren't as good as in the video for this game, but it does have a Star Trek feel to it, and there is a LOT of space (which sucks cause my ship only goes Warp 7.69 at top speed). It's very... MMO-ish. It's not all that incredible, but I still enjoy it.

Anyone else here happen to play STO? I want to make/join a fleet, going it alone has gotten the Wichita blown up twice now.

EDIT: Three times. Goddamn Klingons.
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Aug 22 2010, 11:29 AM
Yeah, that would be awesome...

I really would like to see a 100% scientifically accurate galaxy generator though. Y'know, with real physics and planetology and stuff...
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I believe the phrase "Don't get yer hopes up" applies here.


Yeah. For one, it's terribly hard for people to make good scientifically accurate literature/television/films/videogames, whatever. And when they do it's few and far between.
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Some games are more realistic than others....
Red dead redemption is probably the most accurate portrayal of the USA 1911 on the west coast
Battlefield:Bad company 2 is the most realistic and fun to play fps out there
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Accuracy, however, must be often discarded for plot and epicity. Though accuracy can make things even more epic than those in games, they don't tend to be at all manipulatable.
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well look at red dead redemption its accuracy makes the plot so much better in terms of immersion into the world
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A game does not have to be accurate to be awesome. Look at Timesplitters.
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Doesn't sound like my kind of game, Timesplitters.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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It is a game run by ROC and ROF. The protagonist can shout backwards through time.
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