[Jade]

One game I love and some might say it is sad, but I love the Sims! I love being my own little computer person and making him/her do stuff, I had a baby the other day. :P (Not real of course lol).

[CG Man]

OMG not Sims. I go on Sims 2 now and again to have a go at house designing and see how they live in it.

[Hybr!d]

After trying out x3 I decided it was a very steep learning curve.

Then saw an advert for 'EVE online' last week, it seems to have taken over my life. :oops:

For the first time in years I'm considering upgrading my PC.

Originally Posted by CG Man

X3 Reunion
Is a good game for people wanting a really deep game that makes you feel like your there. It's a space trade and combat simulator played from the cockpit view. Anything you see flying around or any factory can be baught. Upgrades and weapons are built and sold in space factories every factory requires resorces from others. It's one of those sims that grows the more your on it theirs no end.

You start with a tiny fighter and a few quid and buy and sell goods to earn enough to buy a bigger cargo ship and one day your own employed pilots, cargo ships and factories. Theirs a huge area of space split into around 120 sectors to explore with a dynamic economy.

Why and how you play it is upto you I run it as a business so I can buy a huge fleet of fighters, carriers and battleships to hunt down the pirates. You could play it as a pirate hijacking other pilots ships and building drug factories and brothels.

It's got a way more learning curve than mine sweeper and requires all your time to get anywhere, a game for the unemployed some call it. One year on I'm just as interested as the first week. Don't bother playing it without the patch unless you have a 10Ghz processor and a graphics card from the future. A Geforce 6800 GT and 2 GB of ram will get you ok FPS at 1600 X 1200 Res.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C2%B3:_Reunion