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Darkone wrote:<br/>
Think that would be a HUGE undertaking for Egosoft to dumb down their interface. Personally I wouldn't mind a more simplified control method because I constantly forget key commands. But with there only being 8 buttons on controllers they might some challenges. But I ...

BTW, one of the old sites that had excellent database of the games, but went offline was a Talent for War.Last online snapshot:http://web.archive.org/web/20040829180517/[url]http://www.space-combat.net/[/url] it moved to a blog format here:http://atfw.blogspot.com/

I've browsed through the forums, and the little KB here. SSC is completely unaware of something as fundamental as X-Wing, Tie fighter, X-Wing Alliance and so on :)Especially XWA still seems to be a little bit alive with fan/mod sites like http://www.xwaupgrade.com/

What are the numbers online for Vendetta these days ? I played it a bit like 2-3 years ago, wasnt too active and i got frustrated with lack of any decent content beyond few first weeks.

If i were them, i'd figure out how to make the most $$$ of their huge investment. Read : make the core engine work on consoles, and sort out their user interface problem at the same time. Consoles pretty much force one to rethink the UI strategy.

FreeSpace 2, hands down. It perfected the military space shooter genre.For the trading/freelance kind of thing i would call a tie between the original Privateer, Tachyon the Fringe and Freelancer.

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PINBACK wrote:<br/>
Game is out and can be downloaded from steam.http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/ltp/games/moonbasealpha/mbalpha-landing-collection1-Download.html<br/>
Played through it. It has some potential, but the demo completely fails to tap it. 25-minute sprint ...

<t>Hi,Just wanted to give a headsup on one of my fav spacesims of old times. Tachyon the Fringe is available on steam, and there are still apparently people playing online on Novalogic servers now and then.I havent fired this oldie up in a while but i did like the game a lot, easygoing, nice action ...