It's your prerogative to be wrong, pal.
It's your prerogative to be wrong, pal.
Actually he asked why everybody is calling Elite a space sim and the answer to that is because that's how the genre is called
Well that's dangerous... If I told my wife I was gonna go play with Janet tonight it might not bode well for me. You know, since her name isn't Janet. I'm seeing homeless or worse... (shivers from the thought)
Actually he asked why everybody is calling Elite a space sim and the answer to that is because that's how the genre is called
Well, that's the reason why people call ED a "space sim".
But if you read the OP:
He's framing the question in the context of the "simulation" moniker often being used to justify boring gameplay mechanics (which does happen).
Feel free to ignore the OP and argue whatever you want. [haha]
Its never wrong to trigger the overly pedantic.
Except he isn't wrong. Space sim is the correct term for the genre. That doesn't mean that OP is wrong when he says the game isn't realistic. And his point isn't unreasonable in my opinion. For me realism isn't important but immersion is. That means the game needs to have a consistent and believable game world. Deus Ex would be a good example.
On steam its got "simulation" as a tag IIRC.
EDIT : in fact its got "space sim" as a tag lol.
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Adressing the thread title and a central line in the OP is hardly ignoring it. He should've called the thread "Why does everyone call Elite realistic?". But that wouldn't be any good either because nobody actually calls the game realistic. So how about "Why does nobody call ED realistic?" but that probably isn't catchy enough.
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Yeah because having more speed than your enemy is pointless or having more spin speed on the blue zone is how real physics work.
Speed limit still exist.
Oh, and you can't orbit any celestial object.
"Real physics" yeah.
Actually you can. Scott Manley did it. Youtube the guy, he has a video of him doing it
No thanks, I unsubscribed his channel.
Can you do it with any other planet/moon? What about orbiting a 1G or more planet?
I gave you the info. If you're not gonna atleast check yourself then what is the point in asking more questions about it. You CAN orbit planets in ED. End of
Check reddit? There's forums on there about it. Check forums in here even, plenty showing you can do it
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Oh, yeah, I found some videos. You can't orbit with 1G.
Angled surfaces.
FWIW, speaking as somebody who's played a bit of KSP, when you're building space-planes you often find that you can't fit quad-OMS thrusters where you want 'cos there are things like wings in the way.
Instead, you can bung simple one-directional thrusters on the diagonal axis's of the ship (one set at the front and one set at the back, at equal distances from the CoM) and they'll happily induce 6 DOF movement.
Just don't try it on a cylindrical ship.
It's almost like FDev thought about what they were doing when they designed the OMS thrusters. [where is it]
And? Plus I'm not even sure what you're arguing about. You don't seem to be a fan of Elite. Yet here you are bothering people. I'm done. I just gave info on something you claimed can't be done. Cya buddy
On topic.
It's not an astronaut sim or NASA sim. It's as good as we're gonna get, so why not? It simulates our galaxy pretty well. The flight characteristics work pretty well. Who cares anyway? Is flight sims a flying sim? Not really. Is farm simulator actually a farm simulator? No lol. But it's as near as is possible in a game.
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I'm not a fan of Elite, It did some good things with mining and exploration in 3.3, but the rest of the updates were underdeveloped. I liked 2.0 though.
Sorry if you got bothered because we can't orbit planets with moderate G, I'm also concerned about this too.
Yeah, we can orbit planets with 0,02G, I didn't tried it before but thank you.
Speed is not enough to make it cool though.
I do care about flying, its what I do most of the time in this game, well... the other 50% of the time is lost with the boring supercruise.
