While playing Oolite recently I thought just how much fun this game is compared to Frontier Elite 2 or First Encounters. I do not know why but this Newton physics thing is just getting on my nerves these days. I want arcade style gameplay and controls in a deep and interesting game. Why is it not possible to combine this? Is there any game that is as fun and playable as Elite/Oolite but has the planets, planetary landing and seamless space exploration/trading system of Frontier? Or please just tell me that there is a hack of FFE or Frontier which just gets rid of all the physics and implements standard Elite controls. I know there is something like this out there, there just has to be...
Like an old publisher (Thorn EMI) once said when asked to publish a game called Elite: "For us to publish it we would need a game with a score and three lives (...)"
I played glfrontier for a very short moment, just before I discovered Oolite, which made me abandon glfrontier pretty fast.
I have no idea about it's physics or not-physics.
It is listed here (with link) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_engine_recreation
