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[Apple Master]

Looks awesome, engineer ftw.

[Lightning4]

If they let me build an Solar Power Plant to sell power sells to all the solar sistems' space stations I'll be happy.
Also they should implement planet landing or something.

Where's the damn Space Weed-... er yeah, wrong game.


This seems quite interesting.
But like any MMO, I bet it has some grief potential somewhere in it.
"Oops. I didn't mean to hit your depressurize button! I swear!"

[Cthulhu]

Don't be silly guys.  This is edutainment, not a crazy go to mars simulator.

Expect every option to have a blurb and a video about how whatever it is works in real life, lots of Air Force recruitment stuff, and listings of college degrees they're looking for.

I like to learn in class, then go home and play video games.  I don't want them to get mixed up.

[Aqizzar]

That it's supposed to be educational will make ruining it with nonsense all the more satisfying.  Trust me, so long as you can arrange buildings in the shape of swastikas and penises, some Goons are going to muck it up.  Why not have our wackier but less offensive fun?

[Duke 2.0]

"Trust me, forming a face with these habitation modules is the most optimal way of arranging them."

 We must also amass an army of drills for mining moon gold.

[kulik]

Manny of nasas "Go to mars" expedition scenarios is about a crew member going nuts! Give me a tool box and i deal with him quickly.

Anyway i would like to see a deep gameplay for instance orbiter-like pilotage, deep science resarch (not just skillcheck, but for player to really think about stuff and figure it out), and complicated mechanisms with manny components to get broken and difficult to repair (again not some silly skillcheck).

...it has lot of potential mainly if they decide to make it simulation-like not just arcade space WOW.

[pilgrimboy]

It looks fun.  Probably won't play it since I would have to play with a team.  Arggh!  I hate spending fifteen minutes to find a group when I only have an hour to play.

[kulik]

im ressurecting this one
check out this vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYUkvmBp9fs&feature=player_embedded

Release on Steam is planed on July 6th.

Something about this game extracted from article in edge-online:

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The MMOG itself promises mission-based learning with players tackling all the problems that harsh space environments and complex technology can bring. These scenarios will be based on real science and encourage cooperation and team efficiency much like most fantasy-based MMOGs do, but there will also be an option to indulge in individual and solitary missions for the more independently-minded space explorers. Gamers will choose a profession and complete missions in their chosen capacity, establishing bases and outposts, travelling to the farthest reaches of the solar system, averting disasters and solving colony crises.

The base mechanics are built on the FPS, but add storytelling elements and simulation in what Heneghan says amounts to a new genre: the firstperson exploration game. The idea is to keep the excitement of a FPS while exercising your mental agility to the full, not just your trigger fingers. “The player controls the level of action they engage because all content is location based as opposed to time based, so if you are ready for some action all you need to do is explore a new geographical region and within a few seconds something will happen,” explains Heneghan. In other words, it’ll be the environments that will generate the external forces which create the basic conflicts for gameplay.

And then there’s the social aspect. Laughlin sees the game as eventually being able to facilitate problem-solving on a massive scale: “Instead of having two or three scientists working on a problem in an isolated location, we’ll have tens of thousands of interested people trying to solve it, and I think we’ll get much better, more creative and faster solutions that way”. For Heneghan, meanwhile, it’s a great framework which can support user-generated content. Although the initial release will not feature user-generated content, he says, there are plans to include it in later versions.

[Apple Master]

Good call, Sah.

[Rakonas]

Shit looks awesome, I don't think they're going for too much of an edutainment approach. Is it going to be free?

[Pillow_Killer]

On their forums(Which only got a single thread in every subforum(wut?!) ) was said it's going to be subscription-based

[Rakonas]

Well, as much as I hate subscriptions, I'm rather willing to pay for the game as it's funding NASA, instead of some game company that I don't particularly like. I'll probably get it and hope several of us will too.

[Soulwynd]

So, can we solve problems with guns in space as well?

[Sensei]

It sounds like it might have framework based on real science. That's something that could actually be good in an MMO. In fact, it sounds sort of like a puzzle-based game a la Uru. But with real science instead of arbitrary riddles.

Also, griefers IN SPAAAACE!

[Cthulhu]

So, can we solve problems with guns in space as well?

There are no places where you can't solve your problems with guns.  If we ever find one, we should promptly blow it up.