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I've always wondered why no one has taken this formula and developed an MMO.

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Elite Dangerous is multiplayer, bit more of a space sim.

X4 is single player and definitely focuses on the empire building.

A long time ago there was the Jumpgate MMO, probably the closest to what you want.

Starport: Galactic Empires[0] is an MMO in which I spent many hours in the early 2010s.

If I remember correctly, it exhibits many of the mechanics of EVE, and appears to be very similar to Endless Sky.

[0] https://www.starportgame.com/

I played so many hours of this. Thanks for reminding me about it!

Forget MMO; I'd be happy to play a game of Endless Sky with a friend in the same way we play a game of Civ. It seems well-suited to it.

Eve Online is the MMO/spiritual successor to Escape Velocity in my mind

In some ways yes but eve slows everything down to a tedium this game is fun because progress is fast and meaningful

Yes, I think this is the hard (maybe impossible) balance for an MMO like this. Eve Online is so slow, while EV was extremely fast paced. You'd have to find something in the middle to really make it work.

Freelancer was so close… that’s the closest anyone had come by they made it clunky due to no native joystick implementation

Freelancer... if there ever was a game I want more of.

MOBA-paced would be so fun. Or, a few servers to choose with different pacing.

It’s been tried and it really works better as a 2d story game. Earth above and beyond and jump gate were the attempts

Earth and Beyond was really incredible and was the first to implement trading as a profession (e.g. buy tons of an item in one place, sell it at another for profit and xp). EVE took things to a wholly new level with trading though.

There are lots of MMOs like that and they are all niche and not very successful.

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