I have recently checked out a book called Godspeed from my school's library. As I read the inside of the book's cover, it sounds a lot like the hyperspace jumping system that EV and EVO uses.
I guess this goes out to the developer's of the game: By any chance, did you guys read this book (Godspeed by Charles Sheffield) and come up with Escape Velocity?
Well, just a question. Seeya!

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The book Escape Velociy and the game Escape Velocity...related?

No, the book is totally different, but it is an actual book.

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Umm, if you actually read my post, you would see that nowhere did I ask if the book Escape Velocity was related. I was asking if Godspeed was. DER!

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Originally posted by The Space Between:
**I have recently checked out a book called Godspeed from my school's library. As I read the inside of the book's cover, it sounds a lot like the hyperspace jumping system that EV and EVO uses.
I guess this goes out to the developer's of the game: By any chance, did you guys read this book (Godspeed by Charles Sheffield) and come up with Escape Velocity?
Well, just a question. Seeya!
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Matt Burch developed EV, and the only board you can find him on these days is the Nova board, and a topic like this there would likely be locked by Tom within about two seconds or you clicking submit new topic. I wouldn't expect an answer from Matt, though someone else who's been around a while may know.

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Escape Velocity is similar to many sci-fi sources. Most of it is either a joke or a coincidence. Many, many sci-fi books discuss hyperdrive engines.

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Luke is right. Go to your local library's sci-fi section and grab a random book. You have a 60% chance that it will seem as if it is based on EV. The whole space travel/ hyperspace/space wars theme is present in a lot of novels.

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Although I've never read Godspeed, the SF universe in which FTL travel is most similar to that in EV (of the ones I've read) is The Mote in God's Eye and The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell. A great pair of books by the way; well worth reading. There are hyperspace jump points within systems which are determined by the electromagnetic flux of nearby stars (i.e. their light). In fact, I'm certain that these books influenced Matt Burch, as one of the important systems in the book has a New Ireland and a New Scotland. The main difference is that the transition takes place instantly, rather than in one, two, or three days.

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Originally posted by WickedDyno:
...the SF universe in which FTL travel is most similar to that in EV (of the ones I've read) is The Mote in God's Eye and The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell.

Also CJ Cherryh's books; her conception of 'jumps' is even more similar to the one found in EV cause her ships don't need to go to a specific jump point--they just need to be a certain distance from the system's center of mass.

But that doesn't mean Matt Burch read either series: it's just that jumping is probably the only way to manage interplanetary travel in a game like EV.