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While thousands of gamers stock up on small blankets to drape over their web cams :)
I was under the impression that a typical gamer never switches the lights ON?
Guess its pronounced "Oh X ten C" or something like "Oh! Extacy"
I hope the graphics don't suck, like they do in Minecraft. I know it sound superficial, but graphics do matter. Minecraft succeeded despite its graphics, not because of them.
The game looks really awesome, I love space games, and if you combine it with Minecraft... and not only that but programmable CPUs !!!! I would love it. Sadly "Monthly Fee" is something I don't like... I don't have the money to pay it, nor a credit card to do it, so nope.
We'll be completely alone forever, and future scientists would have completely wrong picture about universe in such an absence of information. Thinking about that, we already miss a lot of information because of red shift… There're facts potentially explaining the eternal question ‘about universe and everything’, but they are slipping away from us, crossing the event horizon never ever to be learned about. Not a fun thing to know.
Personally for me that was a discovery thanks to the explanation by Lawrence Krauss in his ‘A Universe From Nothing’ popular talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo).
I was reading those specific two bullet points: * Hard science fiction. * Space battles against the AI or other players. which, combined with: * Lots of engineering. * Fully working computer system. reminded me of essays such as "Realistic Space Combat" [0]. I wonder if Notch considers such a thing. [0] https://gist.github.com/1526107
Hopefully it'll have some sandbox features! MMO Scene has been missing a decent sandbox since UO and SWG (Pre you know what. And dont' say EVE online cause to me, that was just a huge game of stare-at-your-UI-windows)