Comments on: Upcoming 4X MMOG Celetania To Run Natively On Linux

By: Savi

Savi — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:25:36 +0000

great news! i love this kind of games! (alpha centauri, call to power)

By: sparr

sparr — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:35:38 +0000

Time of Defiance was the first decent MMORTS that I played. It ran under Cedega for a while, then stopped working. I never got it to work under Wine, and havent tried in over a year. I hope Celetania is better.

By: rototor

rototor — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:14:15 +0000

Conzar: Yes and no. Celetania is little bit more “complex”, because you can trade, create alliances with other players, declare wars to other alliances, create custom designed ships, and so on. A game in Sins of A Solar Empire may take an hour. A “game” in Celetania goes on for years. There will be other news posts, which will explain how Celetania works.

By: Conzar

Conzar — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:45:29 +0000

Ah, so this is like Sins of A Solar Empire except persistent?

By: rototor

rototor — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:40:40 +0000

Nemoder: It`s a 4X (Wikipedia) realtime MMOG. So, yes it falls into the category of RTS games. Just think of a realtime "Civilization in space" MMOG.

By: Nemoder

Nemoder — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:05:32 +0000

Is this going to be more RTS than RPG? If it’s something like Time of Defiance that would be pretty cool to have on Linux.

By: rototor

rototor — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:39:34 +0000

Conzar: Celetania shares only the space theme with EVE. In EVE you fly around in a “Wing-Commander” like manner with exactly one ship at one time. In Celetania you build up an empire, i.e. you build up a production pipeline on your planets (mines, factorys, …), build parts and finally build many different ships with this parts. After you got a fleet you can fly them to other planets and colonize those planets. You may encounter ships of other players while doing so. Maybe you can live in peace with them. If not, you better configured you ships “superior” then the other players, so that your ships survive when it comes to a fight …

By: Conzar

Conzar — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:53:50 +0000

How is this different then EVE?

By: M1AU

M1AU — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:27:52 +0000

Looks of course interesting.