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Beaglehound

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Have just been nosing around some of the older threads and found some dating back to mid-2006 in the Introductions and News & Announcements sub-forums. :eek:

I thought this was all only a couple of years old, how wrong I was.
 
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Sir.Tj

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Yes' I lurked from the beginning but only joined a year later. :eek:

You can see users join date in the top right hand corners of their posts.
 

MikeSnos

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Beaglehound said:
Have just been nosing around some of the older threads and found some dating back to mid-2006 in the Introductions and News & Announcements sub-forums. :eek:

I though this was all only a couple of years old, how wrong I was.
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Some of the people in here have been members almost as long and were visiting regularly for news of a new version of Elite... If I'd known about the forums I would have done the same...
 

Sir.Tj

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Just looked at this page and Steve O B was the 1st person to say Hi to me way back then.

https://web.archive.org/web/20071117142958/http://forums.frontier.co.uk/

Most users ever online was 306, 16/06/2007 at 7:46 AM.
Threads: 522, Posts: 4,381, Members: 1,017, Active Members: 26

Bit different back then to now.

Most users ever online was 1,264, 30/05/2014 at 12:43 PM.
Threads: 19,063, Posts: 482,547, Members: 37,168

Memnoch said:
The first mention of Elite 4 being in active development, on August 15 2000.
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And she was a bit of a looker.

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Vikinger

Vikinger
Ive been here quite some time now :)



Remember, for many years ago ,when Mr Braben talked about that he wanted to make an Elite game that had multiplayer options in it.
 

Alric

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daemonmp3 said:
First looked at the website around 2002, still remember the IK animation example software with the dogs which I've just seen is still downloadable using the wayback machine :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20020602194756/http://www.frontier.co.uk/frontpage.html

Chris.
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Haha that's all I remember.. I would come looking for some news on a new Elite, never found a forum but did learn all about animation blending so a dog could run and look sideways at the same time!
 

Vikinger

Vikinger
Hehehe.

I found an post I did in an very old thread back in 18/11 2006.


And actually the thing I wished for is about to come true :)

And funny is at the end of the post I said that I hope I don't have to wait 10 more years. Well its just 8 years now LoL.

Here is the post:

From the article:

"Certainly the first Elite incarnation will be a single player game, that supports multiplayer, but we're not talking thousands, we're talking tens of players."


Whit that i guess it wont be an MMORPG. But have the multiplayer features that allow to play over LAN or Internet whit up to 10 or 20 players.

Thos multiplayer games tend to be turn based if its an strategy game or a pure FPS game where u go head to head.
Maybe it will be 10 vs 10. Alliance vs Impire in a shorted down universe.

Destroy/defend each others base etc.

Well for me i really dont care if Elite IV will have multiplayer feature cuz i look most forward to the single player game and hope it will be a never_ending_game that also allow/have the feature that the players/community easily can expand missions, BBS. Modification friendly game.
I also hope that the longer you play the more of the universe will be expanded by NPC AI. New starports etc. Or that could be left to the community to mod/expand?
Also possibility to leave your ship when you have landed and walk the town
Ops, start to be a wish list here hehehe.


Of course i will play the MP part also but that is not the most important aspect for me.

If its gona be a Elite MMORPG in the future i will for sure play it but i think its nearly impossible to create a game based on an unfinity universe that also are time controled by the player (stardreamer)
Although a cool feature would be if you could be an explorer to search for new worlds to populate or to industrialise.

First planet you find would be named after the player as a reward
Also possibilitys to own a starport.

Darn iam startig to droool here now whit all the features and possibilitys i can se in a game like that hehe.

Well iam glad Mr. Braben have gived us some more info regarding Elite IV so now i have even more big hopes to se my ultimate game come thrue.

But i hope i dont have to wait another ten years.


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