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I had played for many years a great game called Hades Star. It was available on steam and on Android.

Amazing game, I loved the pace, the PvP (white stars, 5v5 up to 15v15 clan wars) and most specially the collaborative pve (red stars).

It had a unique feeling and, while the grind was real (delivering cargo, yuk) it was manageable to a level where you was trying to compete with other players to who was more good at it.

Then the idiot Dev decided to kill it for an "upgrade" called Dark Nebula: gameplay changed a lot, old players where forced to the new game, but feeling was totally different.

Player base dropped quickly, corporations (clans) went empty and collapsed, general gameplay was not fun anymore.

The Dev ignored most complaints and warning from users to achieve "his" view of the game.

The game is now dead to me.

Anybody played it? What did you guys moved to?

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[–] Panties 5 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I started the game in its first year, played for probably five years, got to solid mid Rs9 level, even somewhat enjoyed doing shipments, then one day I suddenly realised that the game was taking up so much time, and unlike before, I wasn't even looking forward to RS10. So I quit. Kept the game for a while to chat to corp mates and eventually didn't migrate to DN when it dropped.

My partner got into the game not long after me, he kept playing for a couple more years on and off, got to RS10, managed a few successful runs, then decided RS9 was more fun lol. But after dark nebula he really dropped off. he learned to do the new Red Stars, did a few white stars, and... don't think he touched it in the last few months.

I did make a few good friend in the game who are still in touch, but I haven't really thought about HS in so long. This bring up some nostalgia for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I also made at least one good friend on that game. We keep in touch years later.

Was amusing the idea to try recreate the original game as open source, with due differences like a true rich tech tree and less grind (no need to monetize an open source game after all), and most of all, self hostable server.

But RL is a bitch and free time is hard to come by these days, so.

Yeah the game was pretty addictive and I took the DN fiasco as a good reason to finally quit. I got to RS10. But seeing how rs10 was so much less fun in red stars was also a turn down as well.

I had friends playing rs10 regularly tough, so those where doable and kinda fun too it seems.

Rs9 where real fun tough... Specially done in private corps with three more able and willing partners.

White stars too, I really enjoyed them, maybe I was in a lucky corporation.

[–] Panties 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I imagine it would be difficult to capture what makes the the original so special and also make improvements. But yes an open source alternative would be wonderful.

Any idea if someone already started a promising project? I did a quick search on Github and found quite a few HS simulators, most of them archived. Didn't find anything that's HS inspired. I doubt I'll find time for it between my other hobbies, but I do have a couple weeks of holiday leftover from last year, so who knows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nobody AFAIK. I would like to start something tough. Doesn't need to share name or resources, just the feeling, the space theme, the PvP and specially coop pve approach...

[–] Panties 1 points 1 month ago

Let me know if you do. Haven't ever done any game dev, but I'm mostly a programmer, so maybe I can help with it.

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