> You're on a ship going between destinations, but there's no light-speed shortcut, or jump-cut to the destination. Instead, you have to maintain the ship for the entire duration of the journey. Neptune's Pride [0] is a fantastic real-time strategy game that has this feature without the maintenance part. You play the game over the course of days instead of minutes or hours. And it may take hours for your ships to... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

Could check out https://np.ironhelmet.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

If you haven’t heard of Neptune’s Pride [0], well… Consider this fair warning! It’s an online multiplayer strategy game, like a sci-fi cross between Risk and Monopoly. It’s played in real-time — over the course of weeks or months — between a small (≈8-32) group of anonymous strangers. Neptune’s Pride puts diplomacy at the forefront of its gameplay. Even if you have the best strategy on paper, you don’t stand a... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

If you want all these things and exponential growth, check out Neptune's pride: https://np.ironhelmet.com/ for basically "diplomacy in space with a few extra dimensions". I haven't played in a few years (it was great at the beginning of the pandemic), but it was a lot of "fun" in the same way that diplomacy is "fun". Except with a space theme and a lot of anxiety waking up at 2am hoping your fleet arrives at an... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

For people who likes the kind of backstabbing thrilling behind the scene diplomacy wackiness that ooze from Eve, but can't really get involved in it for whatever reason (most often being time, motivation, or the fact that 99% of eve gameplay is actually more excel than malta conference), I highly recommend you give Neptune's Pride [1] a try. It's not at all the same kind of game (it's a "turn by turn" 4x game... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Not to be confused with Pioneer Spacesim, the remake of Elite 2, a free online game https://pioneerspacesim.net/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Pioneer space sim https://pioneerspacesim.net/ Crashes when entering multiple star systems for me. Source: almost 2 years ago

I found the flight mechanics of Pioneer space sim to be realistic. https://pioneerspacesim.net/. Source: almost 2 years ago

Fans of the game have made games - see pioneer. https://pioneerspacesim.net/ - this should give you an inkling of what is possible compared to what you might wish. Source: over 2 years ago

Probably Elite. Specs are sadly below the minimums for the modern incarnation of Elite Dangerous, but Oolite and Pioneer are free open-source takes on the first and second games of the series that are worth suggesting to him even if it doesn't help get you a present. Source: over 2 years ago