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Space Simulators Anonymous 01/03/15 (Sat) 02:14:11 No.64

http://pioneerspacesim.net

http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/

Anonymous 01/03/15 (Sat) 17:53:04 No.84

Never played a space sim. But have heard of vegastike, looks tits.
What's fun about a space sim?

Anonymous 01/04/15 (Sun) 06:07:30 No.94

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OOLite - Modern "Elite" style game.
http://oolite.org/

Lots of mods available for it.
http://oolite.org/oxps/

Anonymous 01/04/15 (Sun) 19:06:42 No.101

>sim
>spacecraft "flies" like plane
Every time.
…more like game, it's not Orbiter you know.

Anonymous 05/29/15 (Fri) 10:48:23 No.732

>>84

flying around, shooting stuff, trading cargo. Though the latter is decidedly less fun at the moment because the only way for the computer to update its stocks is to save/reload. They are working on getting a trading economy inside vegastrike though. Will probably take a few years to actually happen though

Anonymous 05/29/15 (Fri) 16:03:53 No.735

In any of them can you fly all the way down to the surface of a planet like in the original elite?

Why not if not?

I know ad astra can do it. That's not libre tho.

Anonymous 05/29/15 (Fri) 22:54:15 No.741

>>735

not really. the forums usually get stuck deciding what it means to fly in an atmosphere

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 07:47:03 No.746

>not really. the forums usually get stuck deciding what it means to fly in an atmosphere

Ah so they're just like they were in 2003.

They talk and talk and don't do anything.

IE: The game is finished, dead. No new blood allowed to extend it. Do they even have 3d navigable base interiors yet or are they still using the pictures?

There's no development on that game. It's dead.

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 07:55:28 No.747

>>746

>There's no development on that game. It's dead.

Addendum: But it's still really fun :D.

And the music is good.

Just wish they had some more features.

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 08:28:49 No.748

Pioneer is opengl3 only. Don't know why they even have a linux build at all. It will not run and the devs have said "FUCK YOU" to anyone with a opengl2 computer (all linux computers, few are none actually support opengl3 in the drivers)

http://spacesimcentral.com/ssc/topic/4814-cant-run-in-xsession-runs-slow-otherwise-debian-8-could-not-create-gl-context/

Impaktor, don't give false hope. We're not likely to go back to an OpenGL lesser than 3, so this chip is doomed, unless using llvmpipe, which, as you showed, isn't very efficient (but is useful for us developers)

FUCK THEM THEN

I bet they run systemd too. Maybe they'll require that too soon. Fucking faggots.

"I have this, thus DEPRECIATE everyone else on the planet"

FUCK THEM.

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 08:30:49 No.749

http://pioneerwiki.com/wiki/FAQ#Can_I_walk_around_space_stations_and_planets.3F

>Can I colonize planets, build space stations or conquer the universe?

>No, these are out of the game scope. While the game universe might not stay static for the duration of a game, the player can not generally influence major events.

>Can I walk around space stations and planets?

>No, you cannot exit your ship. The ship is always your avatar.

Smug fucking bullshit.

Worthless. Just remaking the past, not extending it into what people actually dream of.

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 08:32:50 No.750

And basically they'll never extend the game to let you walk around. They have DECIDED that they won't and to do so would be a sin because it's OUT OF SCOPE. If someone makes a patch to add that stuff. NOPE REJECTED OUT OFFF SSOSOSOSUCUUCUCUCUCIOOOOOPPPPEEEE.

I _HATE_ developers like this. Fucking faggots. They already have their mind made up.

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 08:35:11 No.751

>>750

Reason for the fork of nexuiz into xonotic and then the stagnation of xonotic.

The devs work alot for awhile, then stop working and decide the statue just needs to be polished. Won't accept or allow any new development. Ban anyone who does it, etc. Very common in libre.

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 10:45:54 No.753

Wish I could play this on linux. Guess I'll have to load it up on windows.

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 11:38:29 No.754

Really wanted to play. Why did they bail on GL2?

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 20:28:33 No.757

So cool that they have procedurally generated planets. Wish I could run that game.

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 20:36:41 No.758

>>753

>>754

>>757

What are crowing about?

Anonymous 05/30/15 (Sat) 22:40:06 No.761

http://pioneerspacesim.net Won't run on debian.

Requires OpenGL3

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 06:25:16 No.764

>>761

It will run on debian, just not on Intel. Their drivers have always been shit at supporting opengl.

It seems almost ridiculous to say but you need a dedicated GPU solely because of the drivers.

I know it's not much help but if you upgrade in the future to another integrated get amd

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 08:34:01 No.765

Everyone has intel. Everyone.

They pretty much say "don't play our game if you are not rich"

Why don't they support opengl2?

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 10:18:02 No.769

>>765

Now that's the question that doesn't make sense to me. What ever feature they are relying on for gl3 surely can be disabled to make it gl2 compatible. Having a look at the code now.

Anonymous 05/31/15 (Sun) 18:40:19 No.772

>>769

Such a fork/mod/etc would be awsome and would show the power of OSS

Anonymous 06/11/15 (Thu) 13:12:13 No.817

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>>746

>3d navigable base interiors

Has there ever been any progress in this direction? Forum has enough 'idea guys' who can, with great detail, elaborate on what kind of features would be really cool to have.

On the flipside; there's devs who ran in terror when they gazed upon that which is Unit. If you want an idea of what I'm talking about, pic related.

Then there's people who fork the project and are amazed they don't immediately get pull requests with new features.

That being said, there has "recently" for large values of reasonably been some additions in that there's now a dude who can teach you how to fly.

As to actually doing stuff, adding fetch, escort and destruction missions of some type or another isn't too terribly hard since it doesn't touch the engine. Strangely enough, beforementioned idea guys are very low on ideas for such tech/escort/destroy missions.