Exodus

Seaneh

Exodus is an "in development" on line game, its a VB client nad looks good at the moment, its being made by a group of players from the now (well looks this way) dead DIASPORA, StarReaper, DarkSky2, Dr. Dimento and a few others, there will be a C++ Client not long after launch, the first Privite Beta was launched a few weeks ago. If you have played DIASPORA you would love it, its along the same lines, but a much differant game, if you are intrested the General Discussion Board for the game is http://www.gshock.co.uk/dia/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=12
If You are intrested in playing a privite server version of DIASPORA e-mail rilla@gmx.co.uk and find out when he will have his version of the game ready for public launch or go to [url]HTTP://diaforum.cjb.net.[/url]
Erm, DIASPORA is highly adictive and all in all a lot of fun, im hoping exodus is just as good if not better

Magwitch

I played Diaspora for quite a while but upon reflection it did not have that many players. There was a tonne of illegal bots in play, but players were thin on the ground (and as far as I know there was not a ceilng on the amount of players). Did you ever notice that the Bounty list invariably held the same names all the time, in rotation? No matter how good Diaspora was it had severe limitiations on game play and was ruined by cheats (a big pitty).

Seaneh

I have been playing for about 2 years and i have good answers for both of your points.

There was a tonne of illegal bots in play

These were called trade bots and only ran in the "gen zone" or basicly the newbie protection zone, and there is a lot of arguement about weather or not they should have been allowed, i personally don't have a problem with them.


Diaspora had atleast 250 people online at any one time, but 99% of them were either Trading, Expirence hunting , Playerkilling or Fighting Guild wars in the nuetral Zone, which is the main area of the map, I personaly have a msn contech list of 150 people, about 130 of them are people i know from hunting/trading with in Diaspora. I myself ran one of the biggist guilds EVER in diaspora, we had 25 helios behemoths and 12 talos mark 2 behemoths, 8 helios destroyers, 9 helios attackers and about 13 helios hunters.
At the time the closest to us was a guild called United who had 12 helios behemoths(they were most expansive ship).

Did you ever notice that the Bounty list invariably held the same names all the time, in rotation?

Thius was because they were MOSTLY player killers and people hunted those 20-25 players a lot, I my self was in the bounty list for 5 months solid, and i know who put the bountys on me, a m8 called TAI BAN, the main Bounty Listed players were , Me(!{Gandalf}!), Ferengi/Kill`mall, TAI BAN, Sp|t|fre, Zebedee,Cannon,DamnTheLuck,ADMIN,OSIRIS,Sony Xplode,Funkcikle,Sally, Traiq, DiamondAK and C Dempsetr, because we were always in wars and were always prime targets for the other guild, Diaspora wasnt a good game, the players made it good. there was atleast 600 active diaspora players right up untill the server was taken down.

Diaspora was a massive game, and the fact that a Frum for the game still gets more posts per day than ANY of the boards.ie forums perday over 3 months after the game died is a good reflection on that.
There is about 3 games whit promise currently in development which are based on Diaspora.
If you want to know more just mail me i can send you the relevent ULR's.