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I _love_ Escape Velocity Nova. I used to play it for maybe 2-4 weeks once per year but then my license key expired and their renewal system went down because th

I _love_ Escape Velocity Nova. I used to play it for maybe 2-4 weeks once per year but then my license key expired and their renewal system went down because the company died. I've wanted a successor of some kind for so long but nothing quite hits the mark. Maybe this will come close.

throwaway10111 7y ago
Can u recommend other multi user space/trader games ? I dont even mind browser games, since mechanics>graphics for me.
- spike021 7y ago
  Wish I could, but like I said in my first post I just haven't been able to find any similar space/trader games on the same level as EVN. Maybe someone else will be able to chime in. But my guess is just that it's not really a popular enough genre, which is why there's such a dearth in games of similar style and quality.
- stcredzero 7y ago
  I've started work on one, but I don't have the trading part implemented yet. https://www.emergencevector.com https://www.emergencevector.com
  - unixhero 7y ago
    The battles in space sims are not fun. It is the trading and exploring . Just like all the fun with Hacker News are with the comments.
    - stcredzero 7y ago
      I've devised a way to have a procedurally generated tech tree. Actually, it's an inexhaustably large number of tech trees in a huge Directed Acyclic Graph. The particular resources will be partially location dependent, which will motivate the exploration and trading. That's the plan, anyways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DPalL7p5w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DPalL7p5w
    - mnky9800n 7y ago
      I always like the optimization of weapon systems, sensors, etc. In customizing your ship.
- JeffL 7y ago
  Please try our game, Star Sonata. https://www.starsonata.com/ https://www.starsonata.com/ It's in the same genre as EV, Star Control II, etc. It has been out for over a decade now and still under active development with a stable player base. The economic side is generally more about making bases and colonies and setting up automated trade routes than hauling stuff around manually, though. In general, people set up their economy while going off to do missions and explore in parallel.
Rebelgecko 7y ago
For me at least, this didn't quite hit the mark. The world just didn't feel like it had the same richness. The good news about EV:N is that IIRC you can just disconnect your computer from the internet and roll back the clock to the day after your license was issued. Then it will work without complaining about expiration.
- spike021 7y ago
  Yeah, that's the trouble I've had looking for similar games.. I'm really hoping another shop will be able to build a game like this again someday with the same level of richness. But it feels like an older, less popular style of game that just doesn't really have a market these days. Thanks for the tip! I might need to just see if I can spin up a VM and do that. Would rather not need to do it with my regular computer OS.
- kd0amg 7y ago
  You won't be able to play through the full storyline though.
  - Rebelgecko 7y ago
    I was able to. Once you reset your clock and use your license key, you can get past Cpt. Hector
    - kd0amg 7y ago
      Captain Hector isn't the issue. You never got the 4th wall break?
- megalex42 7y ago
  The crack is on the Reddit thread here https://www.reddit.com/r/Escape_Velocity/comments/9atyzj/ev_nova_download_links_and_more/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Escape_Velocity/comments/9atyzj/ev_... You'll also find a minimalist QuickTime no-installer
jaytaylor 7y ago
I was obsessed with EV growing up, and then found EV:Nova during college. Such awesome games! And the mods.. oh god, the mods rocked! Full Star Wars clone... it was crazy awesome. I'll never forget that red alien blob craft (IIRC, it was in the original EV), it slow slow to turn but very powerful, allowing configurations with ridiculous amounts of weapons. And then the stunningly gorgeous Kestrel (http://blog.eamonnmr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/kestrel_3x.png http://blog.eamonnmr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/kestrel_...), damn, this game is one of my all time favorites! Definitely one of the first things which put me on track to fall in love with All Things Space :) I've always wished for some sort of EV with LAN or Internet play, to make it less lonely. If there were mechanics to make it really work smoothly and still be fun, that'd be dreamy. I've enjoyed Elite:Dangerous [0], but it's very different gameplay in comparison. E:D is similar in some regards, like ship upgrades, missions, and trading economy but _much more time intensive_ and first-person POV drive, whereas EV was always 3rd person. I also preferred the ability in EV to to hire subservient autonomous agents who could then be mass-controlled with hotkeys. This really helped scale up combat to take on entire fleets. Then you've got E:D, where it's like "click, click, click, steeeerrrr" to aim and fire every shot. To sum it up: EV - Super fun to play, fast gameplay, excellent storylines, easy to start / save / stop / resume, okay-ish economy, fun easter eggs, but lonely. E:D - Fun, relaxing (or boring, because of all the time to accelerate / decelerate / travel), huge expansive universe (simply massive!), good network play, weak story line, different fighting style, quite excellent trading economy, but high time commitment and overall complexity. [0] https://www.elitedangerous.com/ https://www.elitedangerous.com/
EamonnMR 7y ago
Registration is busted. You can get a copy at http://escape-velocity.games http://escape-velocity.games
mnky9800n 7y ago
Having played this game, is everything an update should be except the art it's super generic. After a while I just can't really get into the ships because they lack that used and abused Star wars feeling that ev Nova ships had.

throwaway10111 7y ago

Can u recommend other multi user space/trader games ? I dont even mind browser games, since mechanics>graphics for me.

spike021 7y ago
Wish I could, but like I said in my first post I just haven't been able to find any similar space/trader games on the same level as EVN. Maybe someone else will be able to chime in. But my guess is just that it's not really a popular enough genre, which is why there's such a dearth in games of similar style and quality.
stcredzero 7y ago
I've started work on one, but I don't have the trading part implemented yet. https://www.emergencevector.com https://www.emergencevector.com
- unixhero 7y ago
  The battles in space sims are not fun. It is the trading and exploring . Just like all the fun with Hacker News are with the comments.
  - stcredzero 7y ago
    I've devised a way to have a procedurally generated tech tree. Actually, it's an inexhaustably large number of tech trees in a huge Directed Acyclic Graph. The particular resources will be partially location dependent, which will motivate the exploration and trading. That's the plan, anyways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DPalL7p5w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3DPalL7p5w
  - mnky9800n 7y ago
    I always like the optimization of weapon systems, sensors, etc. In customizing your ship.
JeffL 7y ago
Please try our game, Star Sonata. https://www.starsonata.com/ https://www.starsonata.com/ It's in the same genre as EV, Star Control II, etc. It has been out for over a decade now and still under active development with a stable player base. The economic side is generally more about making bases and colonies and setting up automated trade routes than hauling stuff around manually, though. In general, people set up their economy while going off to do missions and explore in parallel.

Rebelgecko 7y ago

For me at least, this didn't quite hit the mark. The world just didn't feel like it had the same richness. The good news about EV:N is that IIRC you can just disconnect your computer from the internet and roll back the clock to the day after your license was issued. Then it will work without complaining about expiration.

spike021 7y ago
Yeah, that's the trouble I've had looking for similar games.. I'm really hoping another shop will be able to build a game like this again someday with the same level of richness. But it feels like an older, less popular style of game that just doesn't really have a market these days. Thanks for the tip! I might need to just see if I can spin up a VM and do that. Would rather not need to do it with my regular computer OS.
kd0amg 7y ago
You won't be able to play through the full storyline though.
- Rebelgecko 7y ago
  I was able to. Once you reset your clock and use your license key, you can get past Cpt. Hector
  - kd0amg 7y ago
    Captain Hector isn't the issue. You never got the 4th wall break?
megalex42 7y ago
The crack is on the Reddit thread here https://www.reddit.com/r/Escape_Velocity/comments/9atyzj/ev_nova_download_links_and_more/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Escape_Velocity/comments/9atyzj/ev_... You'll also find a minimalist QuickTime no-installer

jaytaylor 7y ago

I was obsessed with EV growing up, and then found EV:Nova during college. Such awesome games! And the mods.. oh god, the mods rocked! Full Star Wars clone... it was crazy awesome. I'll never forget that red alien blob craft (IIRC, it was in the original EV), it slow slow to turn but very powerful, allowing configurations with ridiculous amounts of weapons. And then the stunningly gorgeous Kestrel (http://blog.eamonnmr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/kestrel_3x.png http://blog.eamonnmr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/kestrel_...), damn, this game is one of my all time favorites! Definitely one of the first things which put me on track to fall in love with All Things Space :) I've always wished for some sort of EV with LAN or Internet play, to make it less lonely. If there were mechanics to make it really work smoothly and still be fun, that'd be dreamy. I've enjoyed Elite:Dangerous [0], but it's very different gameplay in comparison. E:D is similar in some regards, like ship upgrades, missions, and trading economy but _much more time intensive_ and first-person POV drive, whereas EV was always 3rd person. I also preferred the ability in EV to to hire subservient autonomous agents who could then be mass-controlled with hotkeys. This really helped scale up combat to take on entire fleets. Then you've got E:D, where it's like "click, click, click, steeeerrrr" to aim and fire every shot. To sum it up: EV - Super fun to play, fast gameplay, excellent storylines, easy to start / save / stop / resume, okay-ish economy, fun easter eggs, but lonely. E:D - Fun, relaxing (or boring, because of all the time to accelerate / decelerate / travel), huge expansive universe (simply massive!), good network play, weak story line, different fighting style, quite excellent trading economy, but high time commitment and overall complexity. [0] https://www.elitedangerous.com/ https://www.elitedangerous.com/

EamonnMR 7y ago

Registration is busted. You can get a copy at http://escape-velocity.games http://escape-velocity.games

mnky9800n 7y ago

Having played this game, is everything an update should be except the art it's super generic. After a while I just can't really get into the ships because they lack that used and abused Star wars feeling that ev Nova ships had.