[PsychoTechFreak]

Originally posted by Puke:


X:beyond the frontier (with/without x-tension): sounded cool, never really looked at it. how much strategy and economics were there? or was owning space stations simply a way to make money, and the economics were not really developed?

I have played both of them for a long time, but the concept was more or less boring at the end. Most of it is economics, buying stations or remote mining of asteroids, producing different stuff and move/sell it around the galaxy either by remote control of transport ships which can be programmed with buy/sell price thresholds. The most fun of it was capturing pirate ships and sell or use them. Elite-like missions from time to time, pirate bases to destroy or to make deals with. You can live as a pirate also, every ship can be captured, best in lonely quadrants. Graphics and handling are really great! I have heard about the next generation, should be multiplayer as far as I know, but you still can not land on planets. I am not sure yet if it is worth a try.