[DamonCourt]

Hi guys,

This is my first post as somebody in another space sim forum suggested I post this in here.  I hope this is an appropriate place.
I am a long time fan of space sims... admittedly I only briefly dabbled in Freespace 2 as I am more of a fan of space traders than combat sims.
But this post applies to both styles of game.

I recently stumbled upon Stargamer.net, a portal for space sims and as a while ago they put out the call for articles, I wrote in and offered to write a few for their site (as promotion for my game Freehauler).
I got an answer back from the site developer saying that the owners had moved on and they'd soon be shutting it down.

Clearly space sims are in a deep recession right now. Which I feel is a sad state.  I have been playing space sims since an early age, starting with my BBC Micro version of Elite back in the 80's!

Perhaps if space sims were ever to see a revival, it would help if Joe Public knew what one is.
It's getting to the stage where the new generation of game player hasn't ever experienced a traditional space sim.

Therefore I propose that this portal is a good thing to keep running, to maybe kiss some life into our terminally ill genre or at least to serve to educate the younger masses.

I would like to hear your thoughts and also like to know if there is anyone with basic web (or writing) skills who'd be interested in helping to maintain the site. I have already offered to do what I can, but my time is limited.

The guy I'm in correspondence with said if someone were interested he'd consider polishing up the site and letting someone else take over.


Damon

[IceFire]

This is as good a place as any to post.  Welcome to the forums and to HLP!

Seems like a decent looking site right now with only a few changes required and it'd be top notch with all of the latest HTML bells and whistles.  I'll wish you luck on this but at the present time I'm personally not all that interested in helping.  I contributed allot of time and effort keeping sites like Volition Watch, Planet FreeSpace, and Descent Chronicles going and it was great fun at the time but that was back when I did have allot of time to devote and now whenever I have time to try and do some HTML coding I'd rather be doing something fun.

On the revival front...rumors continue to swirl about a Wing Commander revival.  Who knows...the trail has been cold for many years now so maybe now is the right time.

[DamonCourt]

Thanks for the welcome! 

Can understand your decision, maintaining a website can seem almost like work when you've been doing it for a while! 
Maybe a few posts in the forums would be a good way of helping out?

A Wing Commander revival would be great!
There have been far too few major commercial space sims over the last... what 10 years?

[haloboy100]

Icefire left out this:


and enjoy your stay

To make this post useful, i think i found a glitch. How come DamonCourt's post count is zero (and has the 2-∞ position to match)?

[colecampbell666]

'Cause he only posted in General Discussion.



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