...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Outpost (Video Game)
- 123 statements
- 23 feature instances
- 14 referencing feature instances
| Outpost (Video Game) | type |
TVTItem | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | label |
Outpost (Video Game) | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | page |
Outpost | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | comment |
Outpost is a Turn-Based Strategy video game developed by Sierra in 1994, about space colonization.The plot goes as follows: in the first decades of the XXI Century goverments have left space explorations in the hand of private companies, just in the moment a large asteroid from deep space known as "Vulcan's Hammer" is on a collision course with Earth, coming with enough energy to trigger an extinction event. Fearing other impact events in other Solar System bodies, plans are prepared to leave the Solar System looking for planets orbiting nearby stars and starting a crash program to build in Earth orbit an interstellar ship fitted with an untested fusion drive, that once ready and the target star system selected is sent to Jupiter to be fueled there while VLBI probes are launched to obtain more information of the destination. At the same time, a nuclear weapon is launched against "Vulcan's Hammer" attempting to divert its path. It fails, breaking the asteroid in two pieces that impact Earth obliterating mankind and causing the journey to the unknown to start. However things change to the worse when once on the target planet some colonists hijack some of the resources carried onboard on the basis two colonies, not just one, will have more possibilities of surviving.While Outpost was very warmly received, it turned out that reviewers had played a beta version of it with the sold one presumably due to a rushed release lacking many features that were also present on a demo, that while patched later on had no influence on gameplay, and being buggy at first.This game was followed by the much more different Outpost 2 Divided Destiny, that ignores the events of the one described here.Needs Wiki magic and love. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | fetched |
2023-10-04T11:59:59Z | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | parsed |
2023-10-04T11:59:59Z | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_19944e8f | type |
Terraform | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_19944e8f | comment |
Terraform: At game's end depending on what you decide to research, you can either terraform your planet, which brings a lot of questions if your world is an airless asteroid-sized one, or build another interstellar ship and leave. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_19944e8f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_19944e8f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_19944e8f | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_2dc3e97c | type |
Ghost Town | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_2dc3e97c | comment |
If your colony's morale is low, your people will start defecting to the rebel colony. If the last colonists leave in this fashion, your colony will be left with just you alone. At this point, you may continue viewing your colony, but you can no longer advance time. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_2dc3e97c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_2dc3e97c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_2dc3e97c | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_4b17763f | type |
Technology Marches On | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_4b17763f | comment |
Technology Marches On: In apparent recognition of this, the luxury goods you may produce for your colonists are laughably outdated even by 1994 standards, such as 8-track tapes (obsolete in the early 80's). | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_4b17763f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_4b17763f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_4b17763f | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_4d20a148 | type |
New Work, Recycled Graphics | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_4d20a148 | comment |
New Work, Recycled Graphics: 3D-rendered cutscenes and tiles of Outpost seem very similar to the intro of the CD version of Alien Legacy — another 1994 hard SF space colonization game from Sierra. Although no people were credited working on both. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_4d20a148 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_4d20a148 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_4d20a148 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_59aa1d0b | type |
Recycled IN SPACE! | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_59aa1d0b | comment |
Recycled IN SPACE!: This game has often been defined as "SimCity in space". | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_59aa1d0b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_59aa1d0b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_59aa1d0b | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_6ea3206 | type |
Numbered Homeworld | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_6ea3206 | comment |
Numbered Homeworld: The default naming scheme for your colonized planet, but you may change it to anything you want. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_6ea3206 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_6ea3206 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_6ea3206 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | type |
Guide Dang It! | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | comment |
Guide Dang It!: Sort of. At the start of the game, you have four interstellar probes for scanning a decent list of star systems, and only a portion of them have habitable planets at all. If you are hunting for a specific planet archetype, you need trial and error or a guide. But you can easily tell which systems have zero inhabitable planets based on the stars' mass. Anything outside of about 0.7 to 1.3 will be too dissimilar to Earth's star and will not host any human-friendly planets. This data is provided before committing any probes. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_78a96b71 | type |
Safely Secluded Science Center | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_78a96b71 | comment |
Safely Secluded Science Center: The original game and its sequel had the Hot Labs, specialized labs dedicated to dangerous research into things like nuclear energy and retro-viruses. Because of the nature of the research, the Hot Lab could only be built on the planet's surface and it was very much recommended it be kept away from the main colony as said lab had the potential to spontaneously explode and take out any other nearby buildings or connecting tubes. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_78a96b71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_78a96b71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_78a96b71 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_8252652c | type |
All Planets Are Earth-Like | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_8252652c | comment |
All Planets Are Earthlike: Very heavily averted no star has an Earth-like planet. The most similar ones to ours are those Mars-like. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_8252652c | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_8252652c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_8252652c | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | type |
Non-Standard Game Over | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | comment |
Non Standard Game Over: For comparison, the "standard" game over is to run out of food or life support, resulting in mass casualties, a notice from your AI assistant that "everyone is dead", a short animation showing a skeleton in a space suit, and a swift boot back to the main menu. The target star system may have no colonizable world (ie, gas giants). If your colony's morale is low, your people will start defecting to the rebel colony. If the last colonists leave in this fashion, your colony will be left with just you alone. At this point, you may continue viewing your colony, but you can no longer advance time. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_91e894b4 | type |
Apocalypse How | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_91e894b4 | comment |
Apocalypse How: The two pieces of "Vulcan's Hammer" are described to impact Earth with the force of one billion megatons -ten times the force of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs-. While it's not stated what survived the impact, all odds are that our species, much less the civilization, did not. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_91e894b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_91e894b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_91e894b4 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_a8559a9f | type |
RealLife | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_a8559a9f | comment |
The game is based on real-world ideas about colonizing other planets. The available stars to go exist in Real Life, even though their planet systems later proved to be completely different. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_a8559a9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_a8559a9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_a8559a9f | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_b0a91b69 | type |
Convection, Schmonvection | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_b0a91b69 | comment |
Convection, Schmonvection: As noted above of the planets that can be colonized is a carbon copy of Venus with crushing atmospheric pressure, hellish temperatures, and lava present both on its surface and underground. Except for the latter, where you cannot often build, it can be colonized as other very different worlds. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_b0a91b69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_b0a91b69 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_b0a91b69 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_b3eecaae | type |
Colony Drop | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_b3eecaae | comment |
Colony Drop: Vulcan's Hammer, of course. The ship that brought you and your colonists is mentioned to end crashing into the planet victim of orbital decay -with no adverse effects against your colony- some hundreds of turns after you began playing. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_b3eecaae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_b3eecaae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_b3eecaae | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_c309f9d1 | type |
Science Marches On | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_c309f9d1 | comment |
Science Marches On: It's currently known some systems that can be colonized in the game as Tau Ceti and especially HR 8832 are very different to what appears in the game. To be fair, the game was developed when almost no extrasolar planets had been discovered. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_c309f9d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_c309f9d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_c309f9d1 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The name of the asteroid that destroys mankind, Vulcan's Hammer, refers the novel Lucifer's Hammer. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_c7b5445c | type |
Cool Starship | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_c7b5445c | comment |
Cool Starship: The mushroom-like fusion-powered ship that carries the last vestiges of human civilization to the stars, with a front shield to protect it from impacts at the speeds she can reach and doughnut-shaped jettisonable fuel tanks You can build a similar one at game's end instead of terra-forming your planet and left out to keep colonizing the galaxy. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_c7b5445c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_c7b5445c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_c7b5445c | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: The planets featured there are based on Real Life Solar System bodies including all the terrestrial planets except Earth, two moonsnote the Moon and Phobos, Mars' largest moon, two minor planetsnote Ceres and Pluto, and three gas giantsnote Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune. In fact, if was not for the mention of an interstellar ship and the fate of Earth the game could perfectly pass for one of Solar System colonization. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_e5421161 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_e5421161 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_e5421161 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_e6558beb | type |
Artistic License – Space | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_e6558beb | comment |
Artistic License – Space You can research "Alien Ecology (Terrestrial, Marine, and Aerial)", even if your planet is either an airless asteroid-sized world or a Venus-like searing hot planet. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_e6558beb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_e6558beb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_e6558beb | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_eddfe7e5 | type |
Underground City | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_eddfe7e5 | comment |
Underground City: Except at the very beginning, people live in residential units built underground, safe from the hazards in the surface. Other underground buildings include recreational facilities, an university, and factories that produce luxury goods for your colonists. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_eddfe7e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_eddfe7e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_eddfe7e5 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_fcd46998 | type |
Red-Light District | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_fcd46998 | comment |
Red Light District: Available as an underground building that increases morale, birth rate, and crime. If there are no police stations nearby to keep the crime in check, other residential units may spontaneously convert into more Red Light Districts. As the game is generally family-friendly, the help file doesn't elaborate on what actually goes on in such buildings, making it something of a Parental Bonus. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_fcd46998 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_fcd46998 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_fcd46998 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_ffad4e9f | type |
Shown Their Work | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_ffad4e9f | comment |
Shown Their Work: Science-fiction is as hard as it can get for 1994, except for nanotechnology that once developed is presented as a solution for almost everything. Nothing breaks the laws of physics (no FTL travel), and it shows that one of the developers was a former NASA scientist. The ship is a crewed variant of Project Daedalus, which had been extensively researched in 1970s-80s. The game is based on real-world ideas about colonizing other planets. The available stars to go exist in Real Life, even though their planet systems later proved to be completely different. | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_ffad4e9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_ffad4e9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_ffad4e9f | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_name | comment |
||
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_name | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outpost (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Outpost (Video Game) / int_name | |
| Outpost (Video Game) / int_name | itemName |
Outpost (Video Game) |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.