StarGamer.net

http://www.stargamer.net/

thank you, oh kind and prompt SimHQ gods...

http://www.quazar-studio.com/forum/eng/index.php

tarr chronicles forums- best place to get info on the game

Apparently, the developers of BTRL got into a snit, so they split up. Diaspora is the result.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/board,175.0.html

i would like to recommend Freelancer's Discovery Mod :-
http://www.discoverygc.com/

There's quite an explosion of really good space sims now.. flowing on after Homeworld. I'm hoping these are what you guys mean by space sims :-

Sins of a Solar Empire
X3 The Threat (and its successors)
Nexus Jupiter Incident
Sword of the Stars
Allegiance
Haegomonia Legions of Iron (mmorpg)
Vendetta (mmorpg)
Yeah -- EVE Online
Jumpgate
Starport
Battlecruiser Online
(a numebr of others also exist)

oh and a very big Navy ship battle sim: Navy Field

I've just re-discovered Star Trek:Bridge Commander.

For a game that's seven years old, it holds up pretty well, thanks to a very strong and talented modding community.

Much of the stuff can be found here: http://bridgecommander.filefront.com/

Be sure to pay special attention to version numbers and readmes - not all mods are cross-compatible.

The two biggest ones (which do work together!) are probably the Kobayashi Maru mod and the DS9FX mod. Careful with the latter, it has some other mandatory and optional pre-requisite mods.

With these you can set up a Federation assualt on a Borg Cube, play a Romulan vs Cardassian "What If?" - loads of possibilities.

Space Shuttle Mission 2007

www.space-shuttle-mission.com

dang....this sticky has been here for >2 weeks and I just now spotted it! lol
(sorry for any duplicate links)

ETP - A new website "two long years in development" (? site only has nine or ten images?) as a project to "realize views from around our solar system through the eyes of artists."
(8-14-09)
http://experiencetheplanets.com/

cpu@space a new website for "PROFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL SIMULATION ASTRONOMY & FUN SOFTWARES RELATED TO SPACE"
definitely check out bulletin 2 article on the history of british computer spacesims/games!
http://www.multiverseweb.com/


SOASE game - don't have it yet, but it well rated by critics and fans
http://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/

Japanese blog site full of scifi and some fantasy modeling - the work on these pages is simply amazing!
http://dorobou.blog.so-net.ne.jp/

NitCentral - nitpicking (critical comments mostly born out of love) scifi, fantasy, and other genres. Also covers some games. Fun site worth reading.
http://nitcentral.philfarrand.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi

Strange site listing crossovers and shared realities of characters in various movie and TV series...
http://poobala.com/crossoverlist.html

den of geek (fair site, but quick with main industry news (smaller stuff is ignored - if it was true geek they would have a forum! hehe at least I dont' see one?)
http://www.denofgeek.com/

Conceptship blog - mostly scifi art - great stuff!
http://conceptships.blogspot.com/

Space:1999 Eagle transporter forum
http://www.eagletransporter.com/forum/index.php

Orbital Defense Engineering site - very obscure site focusing on the modeling of spacecraft from 2001: A Space Odyssey
http://odec.proboards.com/index.cgi?

Spacesim central (not too much traffic here)
http://www.spacesimcentral.com/

Peter Elson - artist (iirc, he influenced the design of homeworld pc game ships?)
http://www.peterelson.co.uk/

Chris Foss - artist
http://www.chrisfossart.com/Default.asp?Redirected=Y

Syd Mead (extremely influential visual futurist)
http://www.sydmead.com/v/10/splash/

Starship comparison website - i posted this here about 3 or 4 years ago, updates are a bit more frequent these days! Look for the volkswagen - Starship trooper joke!
http://www.merzo.net/

The Trek Nation - Welcome to the Trek Nation, the most extensive internet network dedicated to Star Trek! Check out what we have to offer for Star Trek fans below
http://www.treknation.com/

Guess I will put this here too so it doesnt disappear.

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html

He is a scifi writer who discusses the relevance of science in science fiction and how that compares to reality.

Very good stuff IMHO.

Doing my best the site is only a few months old and getting the word out is rough without spamming everyone. I try to find most of the goings on in the space gaming scene and I have a few developers of various games frequent the site and answer questions. Link page is growing and wiki too. Give it time... traffic is coming I think I had 30k people visit last month I just need more to sign up and actually talk in the forums

Thanks to everyone stopping by and if your a mod owner do upload your mods or demos.


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