Computer: Game: Space
Space Logistics Tycoon   (0)  [vote for, against]

You are a space transport corporation. You want to expand your transport network to these opportunities like:

* Asteroid Mining Cargo

* People transport

* Interplanetary Goods

* Entire invasion forces (As well as the defenders)

etc...

But you may encounter:

* Space Pirates

* Micrometeorite storms

* Navigating gravity pathways (Short predictable pathways are more slower and interceptable than the more fuel heavy route)

* UNSC space regulations
-- mofosyne, Mar 13 2016

Planetary Annihilation https://en.wikipedi...netary_Annihilation
Planetary Annihilation is a real-time strategy computer game developed by Uber Entertainment, whose staff include several industry veterans who worked on Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander. [mofosyne, Mar 14 2016]

Trade Wars from the 1990s https://en.wikipedi...Trade_Wars#Gameplay
[scad mientist, Mar 15 2016]

Please...

You've been around here for a while. Isn't there a video game that does that already ?
-- normzone, Mar 13 2016


There's easily a handful of recent, extent games like that.
-- FlyingToaster, Mar 13 2016


— normzone

Closest I can think of is planetary annihilation, but that is more about military logistics. Which I guess sorta counts, if delivering deathbots and crashing asteroids against your opponents counts in an RTS manner?
-- mofosyne, Mar 14 2016


Freelancer, Eve Online, the upcoming Star Citizen: they're all shootemups because that's what sells, but they contain fleshed out elements of commerce and trade: prices for cargos rise and fall with supply and demand; more pirates lie in wait near stations that deal in pricey goods, different items are contraband in different systems, et cetera.
-- FlyingToaster, Mar 14 2016


How does this stack up against "Trade Wars", a popular game played on BBS systems in the 1990s? I don't think it had ALL of the elements listed above, but seems like a pretty similar concept.
-- scad mientist, Mar 15 2016


I like this concept, but like it better as Stamp Collecting Tycoon.
-- bungston, Mar 15 2016



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