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Space Simulator Physics?
Soooo . . . after playing EVE, for a while, and growing up on games like Privateer, X-Wing, Descent, etc., I still don't feel as though any of these experiences do anything remotely near simulating space travel. I KNOW I'm probably missing something. I don't get out much (metaphorically); I tend to be pretty unaware of what's going on in gaming.
So my point: why is physics always so 'practical'? As in practically wrong? If I accelerate away from a station I'm initially in an almost identical relative velocity or orbit with at 200M/sec, shouldn't I be moving at 400M/sec away from it after two seconds, and 2000M/sec after 10? What's up, massive amounts of 'solar wind' causing drag LOL?
So please, what kinds of realitstic simulation type projects out there are more in line with what I'm looking for as far as physics modelling goes? Maybe I'm just (finally?) growing up, or maybe it's that I'm in an aerospace education program at the moment.
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What are any thoughts/opinions/jokes/recommendations about this issue /r/spacesimgames has?
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Introduction
There's a whole lot of space out there. An infinity of it. And there are a whole lot of space games to fill it. (Well, not really, as it's infinity and they're comprised of indefinitely-large data, and even if they were physical they're finite - but it's a metaphor, y'know?)
And they've been around for ever. Elite, one of the first and best space exploration games, was released in 1984. For a generation, games like X-Wing versus Tie-Fighter, Starcraft and the Mark Hamill vehicle Wing Commander carried fans along happily.
They slumped - heavily - in the 2000s and there were questions back then whether space games would ever be big again - but the indie revolution has shot them back into orbit. We've picked out our favourite ten of the current class - tell us what we've missed in the comments.
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