26CAB40  Ok, fundamental problems with this game.

First, the good thing.

The fast-action twitch aspect works well for combat, the control system is well implemented.

However, in the long term the ONLY way to upgrade your ship and status is a system so poor it beggers belief.

Shoot drones.

In fact, shoot countless thousands of drones over many many months.

Until you have done this, the established unemployed obsessives hang around warp points, blowing you up and making you backtrack huge distances and loose the XP you have built up.

It is not policed to stop this.

There is no in-game mechanism to prevent it or protect you.

Other, older games, had missions that added GREATLY to your XP, and for good reason, if you can assasinate some military big-noise, you deserve the XP.

Not in Vendetta.

In other, older games, if you mine like crazy for 2 months, you make so much money you can buy a cap-ship, or any fast capable fighter with oodles of deadly weapons.

Just like the real world, if you have enough money, you can buy what you like.

Not in Vendetta.

Essentially, you have to spend all day, every day for the next six months making endless trips to asteroid fields to shoot varying classes of droid.

Here's the joke, once you HAVE done this, there is nowhere or nothing to do, you end up sitting outside jump points making stupid yarrr comments and shooting noobs.

I tried this game with a grim determination for 6 months.

Futile, pointless and soul destroying.

At least other, more popular, online space sims have greater depth and give a noob a chance.

If you have a life, it's not for you.

Until the devs wake up and change the FUNDAMENTAL structure of the game it will remain an also-ran in the online pantheon.  
(Version 1.8.79)

YOSHINATSU  Duh... Apocrypha was just released, who's gonna give money for THIS? :/  
(Version 1.8.62)

XOLODNIK  I've been playing Vendetta Online for about half a year now and plan to continue to subscribe for the foreseeable future. While not perfect with some key features still in development, I find VO captures the essence of space combat very well - even when using my joystick and after from many years of playing flight sims, VO transcends the "planes in space" feeling with which most other games in the space combat genre leave me; VO has done this by finding a good balance twixt realism and gameplay with their oddly tweaked 3-D physics model.

Other pluses to the game are: The client is native has been very stable for me even though I don't have the most up to date Mac. The network performance is rock solid making the PvP fun and satisfying. The community is generally supportive and is directly engaged in making VO a better game with publicly available customizations via skins, plugins, and even missions. Built-in voice chat via TeamSpeak, too.

Comparisons to the Escape Velocity series are valid as are those to earlier games in the genre like Elite and Freelancer with the caveat that VO is primarily a multi-player FPS in space with RPG trappings. However, future plans indicate that VO is evolving toward a more complex and dynamic economy which will provide for a richer and more interesting backdrop to the PvP action with more traditional RPG elements like trading, crafting, and mining getting more attention. (As for EvE, I find that the differences in gameplay completely outweigh the similarities which are, after all, common to most games in the same genre.)

Overall, a fun game if you're looking for a space-based MMO with solid PvP.   
(Version 1.8.57)

YOSHINATSU  Uhhh.... Anyone notice a LITTLE similarity with EVE Online?

I mean... ANYONE???  
(Version 1.8.56)

CYBORG9  V.O. 1.8.52 crashes instantly upon launch attempt, here. Anyone else?

OS10.5.4  
(Version 1.8.52)

CALDER  Amazing game, great userbase, awesome devs, but as I know people don't pay for the company, I'll elaborate on the game. It is the intense twitch-based combat that keeps me so hopelessly addicted to VO. The adrenaline, skill, and fun are unparalleled in any other game I've played. From duels and single combat to epic, large-scale engagements, the combat system is beautiful in its simplicity, (real physics and simple projectile motion apply to most aspects), yet endlessly exciting in its intricacies. I will let other players elaborate on other aspects of the game, or you can try the free, no-strings-attached 8-hour GAME-PLAY, not real-time, trial of the game. Also, the developers are extremely committed, resulting in one of the most stable and responsive games around. They are constantly adding to it, and often take player-suggestions into account in deciding their long-term agenda for the game. In fact, players may even join the PCC, (Player Contribution Corps), and create missions and other content for the game.  
(Version 1.8.51)

ERIKHAGSTROM  If you're feeling interested, try it and see how you like it. I did and got hooked. Great atmosphere, tight and friendly community, extensive player/developer interaction and constant updates makes for an impressive game.  
(Version 1.8.41)

RANDY12345  While I really like and enjoy this type of "space" game. Sometimes I just want to have a game to fly around and shoot down other spaceships. Not having to deal with all the politics of joining a group, clan, race, etc. is all I want to do sometimes. And buy improvements/enhancements for my ship...

Is there any type of "space" flying game like this anymore? Anything that will run on a 24" aluminum Imac?

Thanks!   
(Version 1.8.14)

ELIJAHG0  Not quite sure if I'm missing something here, but I found it the most boring game I have ever played... And I play WoW 8 hours a day or more.  
(Version 1.8.10)

PIETRO CRISTOFOLI  4 people develop and run this game.

Guild developers are not yet prepared for a proper launch, they are waiting for a more complete build.

But their MMOFPS has absolutely no rough edges. The engine is rock solid, it runs on multiple platforms (the Mac version supports OpenGL multi-threading on multi-core CPUs and the framerate is incredibly steady on all OSes).

Marvellous community. Give it a try.  
(Version 1.7.47)