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"Spankstinator" <kahuna12@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> First: I must congratulate you on your fortitude.  I refer of course to
>> your e-mail address.  I surely would have despaired after finding that
>> "kahuna", "kahuna1", and "kahuna2" had been already been taken.  But not
>> you -- you persevered all the way up to "kahuna12".  Bra-vo, I say.  You
>> aren't by chance on the Elite IV development team, are you?
>
>
> Funny.  EliteIV is why I started lurking here 5 years ago, hoping for
> news about a release date.
>
>> Second: This froup is dead.  Dead, dead, dead.  It's even in the FAQ.  If 
>> I
>> could pry the FAQ out of Shingen's cold, mostly dead fingers I would 
>> quote
>> you chapter and verse.  Anyway, it's the last question in the FAQ.  It
>> says, "Is this froup dead?"  Appropriately enough, no one has bothered to
>> supply an answer.
>
> Where do people who want to discuss Elite/Privateer open ended space
> sims hang out if not here?
>
I post here when there's something to say about a new space-sim.  The 
space-sim genre, however, is practically non-existent these days.

IIRC, in the last five years only eight SP space-sims have been published: 
Universal Combat, Freelancer, X2 and X3, Starshatter I and II, Parkan II, 
and Darkstar One.  Most are "open-ended" and  a couple are multi-genre 
because they include land/air combat and RTS-style base building.

I haven't included Vega Strike (freebie and lots of fun), a couple of 
buy-online minor efforts whose titles I've forgotten, and MP games, such as 
EVE.

Best place for "news" (?) on Elite 4 is alt.fan.elite (which is almost as 
dead as this ng).  General gaming ng's tend to be "new game" sites.....no 
new games, no posts.

Back in the day (1990's), IIRC, there were one or two space-sim published 
every month...many of these from major developer/publishers (Origin, 
Lucasarts, etc).  WC1-5 and expansions, P1/2 (plus the one released for 
online download), the Descents, Hardwar, Archimedean Dynasty  (kind of 
"space-sims," but maybe I'm pushing it a bit with AD), the whole X-Wing 
series and expansions, FE and FFE, Star Crusader, and, of course (how could 
I fail to mention it here?), BC3K.

There were undoubtedly many, many more that I no longer recall.  They're 
boxed up in my garage, but I'm too lazy to go and dig them out. :)