• Crotaro@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Mhmm that’s my initial reaction, too. I’ll probably look into this, but Elite: Dangerous and, to name another good example, X4 can both be played as pure space trucker sims already. And to a fulfilling degree, I believe.

    I have too little experience as a trucker, to say what could be added that is currently missing from E:D and X4. I mean it would ideally be similar to Hardspace: Shipbreaker vs. X4. X4 has a ship salvage mechanic that is pretty abstract (you carry a a ship to a salvage station and then the ship is turned into materials). Whereas in H:S you are the person who receives the ships and you actually pull and cut the ship apart until nothing but the basically worthless bags of space doritos are floating in the salvage bay.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly based on my experience with ets2 and ats I don’t think there’s a lot missing from elite. Maybe just a requirement that you sleep/rest every 8hrsish, but it’s a real time game so you’re probably going to sleep reasonably often irl anyway.