Elite to make a comeback?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20897768

That would be interesting to see. Amazing how much money a game needs - I wonder how much the original Elite cost to make.

I remember being really crap at Elite 

I was quite good at it.  We used to play it in the college computer room virtually every day. 

LOL now show your age Freddy, what computer were you using?

The original Elite on an Amiga was good. At least I think that one was the original.

It had various names when it crossed onto PC. I always found the later versions to be a bit too realistic on the fighting with lasers etc, and less enjoyable on that front. Frontier being the sequel.

A lot of games have used trading within them. I feel the game has to evolve on many fronts, not just graphical. X1, X2 and X3 have taken that genre of game quite a way forward. There are other space trading/building games as well, like Eve.

One to keep an eye on though.

Elite pre-dates the Amiga (which is what I played it on), it was a BBC game 

Yes Elite first appeared on the BBC machines.  We were mostly playing on BBC 'B' computers. 

My dad used to bring BBC's home occasionally from the college computing department, along with commodore PETs and early 1980's Sharp computers LOL

Does anyone know if there is a nice space/trading game like EVE but without subscription ?  So I pay once and play forever...

Freddy do you mean virtual or multiplayer?

Has to be multi player. MMO..

The only game I can think of is X3 but that is a single player game.

Though a bit of looking around, I did find this...

http://www.mmobomb.com/review/black-prophecy

Yeah I read above you mentioned X3, but single player games are a bit of a yawn for me these days.  That Black Prophecy one I had already found but they shut it down a while back due to financial problems.

Oh well, I will play the 14 day free trial of Eve and see if I can rearrange some money if I like it.

Thanks anyway