Elite-style space trading sims (8)

1 Name: Anonymous Gamer : 2012-06-20 07:47 ID:QCcdG+d7

Hello, I started this thread to recommend and talk about space trading sims in the style of Braben and Bell's venerable Elite.
The ones I have personally played are Vega Strike and Oolite, the latter of which actually uses the same core ships as the original game. Oolite has a bazillion expansion packs (OXPs) being developed by a large and active user community as well, giving you all kinds of new ships, dockable stations, weapons, equipment, reskins for classic ships and stations, and even missions to try in the event that you ever get bored with the core game. I've poured many an hour of my free time into trading my way from a humble Cobra Mk III up to a Boa freighter, whose rather slow speed is its main handicap.

One game I've just heard about is Ad Astra, which apparently uses real maps of our own galaxy and even allows you to enter a planet's atmosphere with the right kind of ship (similar to Frontier: Elite II from 1993). I still haven't managed to find out whether or not it uses Frontier's Newtonian physics model as well, but either way it sounds fascinating.
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