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NASA doing a MMO
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The Ultimate Lurker
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How did I miss this ??????
[url]http://www.massively.com/2009/12/16/nasa-releases-new-information-on-their-upcoming-mmo/[/url]
Me first Me first !!!!:D
[url]http://www.massively.com/2009/12/16/nasa-releases-new-information-on-their-upcoming-mmo/[/url]
Me first Me first !!!!:D
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[i]We're whalers on the moon,
We carry a harpoon,
For they ain't no whales
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune.[/i]
I skipped MS Space Simulator when it came out a decade ago. Space, taken onto itself, is a very dangerous and boring place. Is it going to be a Sims in space game? I still don't get what its main features are going to be.
EDIT: Well it runs with Vista... I've managed to load the Atlantis demo and was able to witness a shuttle launch, change views and quit the program... and that's about it. I guess whoever programmed it, hit the ground running, no help required.
What shocks me is that noone has asked the really [i]important[/i] question yet: what factions will be available? Will we be able to choose to play as a Communist from the USSR racing NASA to the moon? Could we play as a Chinese team setting up a competing base? How about Martians building a staging base for an attack on Earth?
Unfortunately it's difficult to top a real rocket launch. :D
According to this article the average age of NASA employees is 50 years old. This does not bode well for the future of the space program. Already we lost knowledge from the Apollo mission because the engineers who designed the things are dead or gone, and Boeing destroyed the blueprints in the 1990's.
I suspect the reason why we have not been to Mars or back to the Moon yet is because there is none of the youthful energy at NASA.
Yep. That's why Nasa's education branch invests so much in trying to convince kids to become scientists or engineers. Lawyers are much less likely to build a successful rocket.
EDIT: Well it runs with Vista... I've managed to load the Atlantis demo and was able to witness a shuttle launch, change views and quit the program... and that's about it. I guess whoever programmed it, hit the ground running, no help required.[/QUOTE]
Actually they're working on it. Last update was in october, but they are beta builds. They are trying to seperate the rendering engine from the physics so other people can work on better graphics while the guy who created orbiter can work on the stuff he finds interesting such as the physics.
Flying the space shuttles and apollo missions as your first flight is really hard. Try downloading DeltaGlider IV for an easy to fly space craft. Even if it's unrealistic it's something you can actually achieve something with.
Also if you want to get planets more realistic (hills and craters) there is an mod for that but it's a bitch to get to work properly.
9/10