EVE General Discussion

I came across a vid on youtube today - a "review" of Elite. Brought back memories! I remember first seeing this somewhere around the mid 1980s, if memory serves. Granted, the Commodore 64 was a tad before my time (was more an Amiga 500 guy!), but I did play Elite on a friend's computer.

Incredible how far graphics/gaming has come, but I think the similarities between EVE Online and Elite are pretty darned obvious! A massive galaxy to explore, a rich economy with a heavy emphasis on inter-planetary trade, shooting stuff in space, large space stations etc.... It was all in Elite, many, many years ago.

I liked Elite, and I like EVE. I will say, though, that I really enjoyed docking in Elite - really wish I had to manually dock in EVE!

Anyone else ever play Elite? If you did, this video will bring back memories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy3Di3uu5yA

I still have this game and C=64. Elite was more like an old school simulator where you see cockpit before you. Docking was a test of your skill with piloting the spacecraft. I liked especially the exploring part, because you was always founding new planets with great descriptions, very immersive, even now. The world lived, markets were selling and buying, ships flying near by, what a great game it was back in the days. I hope that the new Elite will be something like that, or better, that this fictious world will live and every part will be original in some way, procedural content FTW.

I was stuck on ITS machines and Macs at the time of the first game so my first Elite was Frontier.

Im sorry.

Oh ouch. Thats like an icicle plunged through what remains of my heart :(

(I really hated Trade Wars you see lol)

Elite pilot checking in. I actually made it to 'elite' danger level too, freaking hard to get to.

Frontier was okish, though I was part of some of the empire fleet battles in that, that was fun, going after an enemy general protected by a fleet of ships..

After that, I did a lot of turn based and realtime strategy games, friends of mine got me into WoW, while I had heard somewhere about this new space MMO game that was supposed to be like elite.. I went with the friends club, after I got seriously bored and quit wow, I finally arrived in Eve, 3 days into the game went subscription, and also kicked myself a lot for giving into peer pressure and going to WoW when I could have spent those 7 years in Eve..

Missed C64 (blame the parents) and caught Elite on the ole 8086.
I remembered fondly, 2 players on the keyb ... the navigator/weapons guy (me) and the pilot (my brother) :D That was fun.

Played Elite on the IBM ( 8086 I believe?) \o/ Never got far in the fighting ranks, but absolutely loved the trade (and thargoid invasions yikes)! Then moved on to the X-series, great fun! To finally land in EvE!

Can't say I remember it. Maybe it was a European phenomena? It sure looks like fun. Perhaps somewhere in those old stacks of 5 and 1/4 inch floppies is a dump. i remember trying to hack the disk system into something that would work. THe basic had a bug in it that messed with random read and writes. We thought we were pioneers but were to find out we were reinventing the wheel. Hashing tables nad direct track and sector access were old hat at ibm. You know when hard drives were called Winchesters and produced visions of rapid fire lever action carbines of the Old West.

The game that really gave me the EVE bug forever though was M.U.L.E. It was a mining game :). You need to keep harvesting a few things to keep the whole thing going. The theme song stayed buried in my head for decades. its still there. I don't think we did any flying at all. It was all resource balancing and reading the terrain.

I probably would have liked ELITE. Our first games were space games but all text based. Landing on the moon with tables of thrust and speed data and then that buggy startrek. first ascii graphics:) We converted them form pdp11 games, the word ported hadn't been used yet in our circles. A port was what you stuck a plug into, usually a seriel cable but it had an RS232 available. It was good for learning how to flip bits but we couldn't afford the printers that attached to it for quite a few years.

I came from WoW