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Elite Dangerous [a] is an online space flight simulation game developed and published by Frontier Developments. The player commands a spaceship and explores a realistic 1:1 scale , open-world representation of the Milky Way galaxy, with the gameplay being open-ended .
Ship flying over the terra-formed planet Mars. First Encounters carried over the gameplay features from its immediate predecessor Frontier: Elite II, in that the game is a combination of trading, fighting, espionage, bombing and a variety of other military activities; the combat ratings were also carried over from the previous games.
Similarly to the original Elite, Frontier offers dozens of ships, from small but fast fighters like the Eagle, multi-role traders like the Cobra to huge cruisers such as the Anaconda or the Panther. Players may own only one ship at a time, so when a new ship is purchased, the old ship is part exchanged (i.e. traded in with most of its trade ...
The BBC Micro version of Elite, showing the player approaching a Coriolis space station. The player initially controls the character "Commander Jameson", [21] though the name can be changed each time the game is saved. The player starts at Lave Station with 100 credits and a lightly armed trading ship, a Cobra Mark III. [2]
Oolite is a free and open source 3D space trading and combat simulator "in the spirit of" Elite, a similar game published in the 1980s.The name is a contraction of object oriented Elite, because it was written in Objective-C, an object-oriented programming language.
In ship articles, hatnotes are usually used to link to a disambiguation page for other ships of the same name, or to link to individual ship articles in the absence of a disambiguation page. A hatnote link is preferable to a 'See also' link where ship articles are concerned, as ships very frequently share names and hatnotes are highly visible.
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Graphical representation of the dimensions used to describe a ship. Dimension "b" is the beam at waterline.. The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point. The maximum beam (B MAX) is the distance between planes passing through the outer sides of the ship, beam of the hull (B H) only includes permanently fixed parts of the hull, and beam at waterline (B WL) is the maximum width where the ...