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  • #16
    Just checked out the link. It's an interesting idea but it won't work. There will be an ever increasing demand on CPU, RAM, and storage until something breaks (which won't take long...). It is interesting to note that after all the time spent so far the only thing there is to show for it are some screen shots and videos (and he seems to have a fascination for ringed planets). I'd like to see something MOO-like on this scale but it will never happen.
    "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
    "Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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    • #17
      Vince, it will happen.

      Quantum computers will change the face of gaming.

      And when they come, the guy making this game, will be ready.
      be free

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      • #18
        Nice to see an attempt at innovation. But yeah, wont be playing it.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by DrSpike
          Nice to see an attempt at innovation. But yeah, wont be playing it.
          I don't think anyone will be.
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          • #20
            Originally posted by Sn00py
            Vince, it will happen.

            Quantum computers will change the face of gaming.

            And when they come, the guy making this game, will be ready.
            When they come, all the code this guy has written will be obsolete
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            • #21
              Not likely.

              60 years of programming down the drain?
              be free

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              • #22
                I may still try it out of morbid curiousity. Just finish something concrete soon.
                "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
                "Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
                2004 Presidential Candidate
                2008 Presidential Candidate (for what its worth)

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by General Ludd
                  I don't think anyone will be.
                  Who said anything about playing it?
                  This space is empty... or is it?

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                  • #24
                    I agree with others. I think it is meant more as a technology demonstrator than an actual game. it is kinda like the prototypes that the US air force builds to test a new technology but the prototype is never actually mass produced for actual combat.

                    It can show off what we can do with computers and I would not be surprised if it were modified for use in astrophysics research or something. For example, I bet you could modify the program to model the evolution of galaxies really nicely.

                    It certainly has a wow factor.
                    'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
                    G'Kar - from Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum"

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                    • #25
                      Better off playing WoW.

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                      • #26
                        Interesting tech test
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                        • #27
                          One could always find an old copy of Microsoft Space Simulator.
                          "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
                          "Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
                          2004 Presidential Candidate
                          2008 Presidential Candidate (for what its worth)

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                          • #28
                            This was posted in the alt.fan.elite newsgroup today:

                            Hi guys, Flavien is doing some great work on his Infinity game. The project
                            is pretty much attempting to make Frontier as a MMOG, with some very nice
                            graphics thrown in.

                            He's prototyping the combat engine and netcode at the moment and a few
                            people (about 80 at one point I think) met up in IRC on Sunday to help with
                            the test. I was one of the lucky ones who's PC didn't crash (very early
                            prototype) and I had the chance to get in and experience what combat will be
                            like in the game. It was almost exactly like combat in Frontier, in fact
                            I'd say slight better than Frontier combat, and of course fighting against
                            other players made it that much better as well.

                            I've written a short review of the combat prototype which is on the Infinity
                            forums:
                            http://fl-tw.com/InfinityForums/viewtopic.php?t=1014

                            That was the very first test so things will be being tweaked and improved
                            all of the time.

                            If you want to find out more about the game visit http://fl-tw.com
                            At least they are still working on it... I mean, the last news updates on Elite 4 on the Frontier Development site were at the end of the last century

                            But Elite 3 is still fun to play
                            Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
                            And notifying the next of kin
                            Once again...

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                            • #29
                              I downloaded some of the video's, lookin good.

                              I like the fact you can fly inside the battleships.
                              be free

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                              • #30
                                OMG, if only they could pull this off...

                                Error 404 (Not Found)!!1
                                http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8426566575107987989


                                Elite with those kind of graphics...
                                Within weeks they'll be re-opening the shipyards
                                And notifying the next of kin
                                Once again...

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