Welcome Mark. Given your new hobby, I'd say you arrived on the right forum, sci-fi is all around you here 🙂

hi mark have a look at these http://www.spacesimcentral.com/links.php lots of good space games out there get Freelancer alot better than X3 also TachyonThe Fringe is a must buy i dont know why people found this game so hard i found is easy, all the homeworld games are good 2 is a remake of 1 and homeworld cataclysm i think is the best one http://www.relic.com/games/homeworld-cataclysm/ (btw drakone if you are read this http cataclysm needs to be linked up, will pm you later about it) anyway injoy your stay mark 😎

I had Freelancer many eons ago and don't even know where my game disks are. It was way too restrictive for me, if I recall. I'm kind of a sandbox person myself.

But I've never even heard of Tachyon. I'm reading the Wiki about it now. And I also found this YouTube video where the guy's voice at the beginning sounds exactly like one of the voice actors from Fallout 3:

Let me investigate this game some more. Thanks for the suggestion and also for the long list of links. This is going to keep me busy in these waning moments of 2010!

Hey Mark

Welcome to SSC and you will like Tachyon: The Fringe. And that voice you hear is Bruce Campbell from the Evil Dead and Army of Darkness movies. I try to keep the link list of games updated so, if you see any games that are missing from the list do please let me know about them and I will get them added.

Enjoy the stay

-D1-

Well I didn't see one of my all time favorite games on the list, a whimsical space station simulator called "Startopia". I'm sure you know about it, but maybe these links will be useful....

Here's the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startopia

Here's a Gamespot review giving an 8.3 rating: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/startopia/

Here's a YouTube video showing some gameplay:

Here's an Amazon link to buy it with an advertised price of a whopping $70!: http://www.amazon.com/Startopia-Pc/dp/B00004WI4B

This is some post-Muckyfoot Productions information from one of the developers of the game which (when last I checked) contained some useful links about patches and what-not (though you can still find patches elsewhere): http://home.comcast.net/~tom_forsyth/st ... topia.html

Even ten years later, this game looks amazing to me. I especially loved the environmental decks and how you could morph the land to your liking and create virtual jungles, deserts, tundras or whatever you want in space. Your visitors would then react positively or negatively to the virtual greenhouse you created, and you can hire others to plant and harvest ingredients which you could then sell for a profit or use to enhance your station. You could view your station from a bird's eye perspective or zoom all the way down to view your masterpiece up close, even jumping into the perspective of a visitor for a kind of first-person (random) tour of your station. This game took many, many hours away from my life!

Added to the list, thanks Mark.