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Is there any comparison between EVE and Black Prophesy?
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Sigurd Sig Hansen
Doomheim
#1 - 2012-04-28 15:25:11 UTC
Other than that theyre both space set games?
Is BP a PVP game? I havent heard anything about it really other than that its twitch based (which I like better than the EVE controls).
But if its crap Id rather like to know that straight off rather than looking at it in any seriousness

Mining is the "Deadliest Catch" in this game
SpaceSquirrels
#2 - 2012-04-28 21:38:01 UTC
Nope really same setting that's it. play is completely different.
Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#3 - 2012-04-29 01:29:14 UTC
One is good, the other is bad.

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Astenion
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2012-04-29 15:40:22 UTC
Eve is good, BP is terrible.
Alara IonStorm
#5 - 2012-04-29 16:34:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Alara IonStorm
Black Prophecy is a Fighter Jet MMO with the backdrop of space. They used every opportunity to emphasis the phrase fast paced space combat making as many references to EVE's slow paced gameplay as possible. It was pretty much center of there advertising campaign.

Funny thing. Turns out there are lots off Flight Simulators out there and the reason EVE Players were playing this game instead is because they like tactical space combat.

But yeah it is an MMO Flight Simulator.

DarkSpace is more direct genre competition but it is so old and rather outdated.

The My Little Pony MMO might steal a chunk. =p
Keras Authion
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-04-29 19:32:31 UTC
I tried the Black Prophecy when it came out and wasn't very impressed.

The good:

-Flight model felt pretty good. Yeah, it's the standard jet fighter physics but it was done well enough.

-Graphics are great and there's enough variety between asteroids, ice fields and ship pieces to give the locations some personality.

The bad:

-The leveling system. You get 3 points per level (5 every 5th) to distribute to 9 skills. Of these you want the god-skill hull which limits how much you can put into other skills. Then you want a tank and a weapon skill meaning there's very little variety here if you want to be competetive later on. And all the upgraded parts were the same item with +10% more. No new items to look out for.

-Nothing interesting to do. There's the mission hubs which offer a few different missions with a few different level variations each. Sadly the allied AI is unreliable and the ship to be escorted had the bad habit of getting itself killed every second mission meaning the mission pool consists of maybe two missions, which you must grind to get exp. The world PvP consisted mostly of higher level players one-shotting noobs, and death just meant minor resistance loss for a few minutes at low levels.

-Ship(s). All the same. There's one long, one wide and one tall. They cannot mix and match parts but it doesn't matter since they are functionally the same. You get the noobship early in the game and later have to decide which faction you want to join, locking you to the one ship. The parts do alter the look of the ship a bit though. No ship classes either but different parts did alter the handling and other attributes.

It might have changed in the year or so but from what I saw it was pretty bland.

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Sigurd Sig Hansen
Doomheim
#7 - 2012-04-29 21:20:02 UTC
Keras Authion wrote:


-Ship(s). All the same. There's one long, one wide and one tall. They cannot mix and match parts but it doesn't matter since they are functionally the same. You get the noobship early in the game and later have to decide which faction you want to join, locking you to the one ship. The parts do alter the look of the ship a bit though. No ship classes either but different parts did alter the handling and other attributes.

It might have changed in the year or so but from what I saw it was pretty bland.


Thats pretty much what killed my interst. I WAS intereested finding out it was a twitch based space MMO
I was turned off when I found out theyre pretty much all fighters. No BCs BSes etc :p

Mining is the "Deadliest Catch" in this game
Alara IonStorm
#8 - 2012-04-30 03:07:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Alara IonStorm
Sigurd Sig Hansen wrote:

Thats pretty much what killed my interst. I WAS intereested finding out it was a twitch based space MMO
I was turned off when I found out theyre pretty much all fighters. No BCs BSes etc :p

If you don't mind spending months grinding or two hundred bucks then Battlestar Galactica Online has Semi Twitch forward facing gun (Strikes) Fighters, Escorts (Destroyers) and Lines (Battleships)

I personally dropped the game when they pretty much halted all real development of it while simultaneously ruining balance and grinding with constant nerfs to... well fun. But it is a browser game that takes 5 seconds to try so who knows you may like it.

Also Star Conflict is coming out soon, in beta. They have Interceptors, Gunships, Frigates and Dreadnaughts.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2012-04-30 03:31:21 UTC
Alara IonStorm wrote:
I personally dropped the game when they pretty much halted all real development of it while simultaneously ruining balance and grinding with constant nerfs to... well fun


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Alara IonStorm
#10 - 2012-04-30 12:06:44 UTC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ljBsP7o2s

BP seems to be really trying. ^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKF2iYfkAA

Star Conflict Dreadnaught Trailer. ^