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I was just wondering, how many of you guys here have played this game? It's just that when I played Transcendence the first thing that struck me was how much it reminded me of EV crossed with Nethack! I've only played it a few times, but it is a lot of fun.
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Pod wrote:I was just wondering, how many of you guys here have played this game? It's just that when I played Transcendence the first thing that struck me was how much it reminded me of EV crossed with Nethack! I've only played it a few times, but it is a lot of fun.
What, Transcendence, or EVNova? Be more specific.

EVNova isn't too bad, but it's WAAAY to complicated. It takes at least an hour an a half to get through the Sort-Of-A-Tutorial-But-Not-Completely part.

Not to mention you can get shot down in the starting system.
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Transcendece : at leat 10 times probbably on the lines of 40
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Ttech wrote:Transcendece : at leat 10 times probbably on the lines of 40
I'm sorry. I don't speak "Un-readable." Please restate your comment with at least a 25% understandability rate.
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Charon Mass of Goo wrote:
Ttech wrote:Transcendece : at leat 10 times probbably on the lines of 40
I'm sorry. I don't speak "Un-readable." Please restate your comment with at least a 25% understandability rate.


erm... must you post poinless stuff?
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Ttech wrote:Transcendece : at leat 10 times probbably on the lines of 40
I'm sorry. I don't speak "Un-readable." Please restate your comment with at least a 25% understandability rate.


erm... must you post poinless stuff?
Must you post non-understandable stuff? I was just asking you to clarify what you said, albeit it was a rude way of doing so.
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Charon Mass of Goo wrote:
Ttech wrote:
Charon Mass of Goo wrote:
Ttech wrote:Transcendece : at leat 10 times probbably on the lines of 40
I'm sorry. I don't speak "Un-readable." Please restate your comment with at least a 25% understandability rate.


erm... must you post poinless stuff?
Must you post non-understandable stuff? I was just asking you to clarify what you said, albeit it was a rude way of doing so.
the way you were saying it was certainly not helping at all.
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I haven't played EVNova so I don't know about that, but Transcendence is definitely similar to nethack.

OT: Can you two stop fighting and filling thread with spam? It would also help if you didn't quote the entire thread (except two posts) when posting. It would make your five post argument seem a lot shorter.
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F50 wrote:I haven't played EVNova so I don't know about that, but Transcendence is definitely similar to nethack.

OT: Can you two stop fighting and filling thread with spam? It would also help if you didn't quote the entire thread (except two posts) when posting. It would make your five post argument seem a lot shorter.
I'll try to... But he just posts really cryptic stuff that does not make any sense.
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t tech - you first post post which is hard to understand - Transcendece : at leat 10 times probbably on the lines of 40
And charon only wand to know what you mean. thats all. Anmd instead of replying in inteligent manner, you start (and charon join) spam war.
And t tech - please, if you replying to LAST message, dont quote it. Simply respond. It will make thread more nicer.
F 50 : I remeber George says in one topic (or it was in interview?) transcedence is inspired by nethack.

Ad to original question - I dont play EV - but if someone will post link, I will try it.
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I have played Escape Velocity Nova, and I think it does some things better than Transcendence...

Specifically, it does story events, IMO, much much better, and has plot elements be better too. But I guess that is what you get with a game that isn't a roguelike, where all the systems are mostly the same...

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/
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EVN isn't a bad game, just that its only as good as Transcendence, But costs money and in Transcendence we can mod and fool around with the game.
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And you CAN'T mod and fool around with EV? It is a *very* modable game, and people have, GASP, successfully made some total conversions!

I wonder, are there any successfully done total conversions for transcendence out there? ;P
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A Total conversion.
Well I soppose If you altered the system codes, and included an item like the transpace jump drive to allow jumps similar to those in EVN then you could have a less linear game and ##GASP## change the story line.

How hard can it be?

In fact its a cool idea and Im going to start trying to code it.
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There is already a great Jump-to [any point] drive mod available. Check out Xelerus, the friendly local mod repository.

As far as 'non-linear' goes, why, what a great idea. :) You looking for large and unruly star networks? Look no further. :P
How hard can it be?
That all depends. For instance, it's impossible to switch playerships in-game, but you can turn planets into ships and blow up suns.
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