So - what's left for a Linux/Mac geek to have some fun? Well, you can try Vendetta online - http://www.vendetta-online.com (BTW - Windows version's available, too). The game has been in development for some 4 years, the "pay stage" has been a year or so. The community is rather small but responsive. Don't expect thousands of players online - you should expect rather tens - the total number of active players is somewhere around 300-400.
How does it play? Pretty well - you select a nation (Itani/Serco/UIT) and you are ready to go.
The skill system is simple but efficient - you have five different areas you can improve: Combat/Light weapons/Heavy weapons/Trading/Mining. You improve by using these skills and by completing special missions. So there is no "automatic learning mode" like in Eve, everything is hard-earned.
You can choose your fate - improve your stats in one particular area (though the first three are somewhat dependent). And as you progress you can buy better ships and equip better weapons - you know the line...
There are updates to the game engine (almost) every saturday. The game interface and functions have changed quite a lot since I subscribed. We even were blessed by robotic pirate ships in the "grey space"!
And more is to come - the devs are planning a real economy, creating introductory missions for newbies etc. The game is 10 USD/month with some discount if you subscribe for longer periods (6 months is 49 USD). You get free 8 hours online to try the game and I can guarantee you won't want your hard-trained character to disappear.
And finally some screenshots.
3 comments:
Fix the link, you have a space before the final slash:
http://www.vendetta-online.com /
instead of
http://www.vendetta-online.com/
Thanks, fixed.
Thanks for the info. As it turns out I have so little time to play all this stuff!
BTW: Check this out http://freegamer.blogspot.com/
Those are free and open-source games but some of them are pretty good. Maybe not for a hardcore gamer but for the rest of us...
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