That one super autistic space flight simulator?

[Lacrymas]

I can't seem to find what it was called. The one usually posted on here as an example of autism in its purest form. You have to know what materials everything has to be made of and to calculate speeds, trajectories, and what not. What was its name?

 

[Snorkack]

Kerbal?

 

[Lacrymas]

No, it wasn't cutesy. You just look at menus all the time.

 

[CryptRat]

Children Of Dead Earth?

 

[Lacrymas]

Children Of Dead Earth?

Maybe? I don't remember if there's combat in it or not.

 

[Citizen]

Children of Dead Earth

 

[Lacrymas]

Thanks. Even if it isn't the one I'm thinking of (I honestly don't know), it's autistic enough.

 

[Hellraiser]

Thanks. Even if it isn't the one I'm thinking of (I honestly don't know), it's autistic enough.

FYI there is also Orbiter

http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/

 

[good fucking shit happen]

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

That one super autistic space flight simulator?

mass effect andromeda?

 

[DraQ]

I can't seem to find what it was called. The one usually posted on here as an example of autism in its purest form. You have to know what materials everything has to be made of and to calculate speeds, trajectories, and what not. What was its name?

Definitely Children of a Dead Earth:
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/children-of-a-dead-earth.111131/
That's the game where you can decide to, for example, design a coilgun for your warship with zirconium copper solenoid and biaxially oriented polypropelene capacitor, firing nickel-iron-molybdenum slugs, then, after specifying caliber, capacitor dimensions and dielectric gap, slug mass and thickness and number of windings for your gun's solenoid the game helpfully informs you that your gun will not work because it will blow its barrel due to thermal expansion on first shot.

Then you fix it and the game tells you that now the barrel will get bent from beam deflection.

Though it's not all the menus, because there is also a fair amount of shooting and shit blowing up.
And cursing orbital physics Tourette's fucking style.
And tens of missiles large nuke swarms to saturate enemy point defence.

 

[Atrachasis]

There's an even older Space Shuttle sim by Spectrum Holobyte (the folks who made Falcon), also called "Orbiter", which was obsessive enough to make you manually key in program numbers on your flight computer, watch your orbital parameters during burns and so on. Very rudimentary graphics, barely anything other than a screenful of buttons. Unironically fun!

The Evochron series might also rank fairly high up the autism scale, though I've never tried it myself, and others might be more qualified to give an assessment. But probably not what the OP meant.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

I think this was the 1st that attempt to do Newtonian flight model.

 

[Geisler]

I'm sure this isn't what you're after but it's also an in-depth space sim that attempts realistic orbital mechanics / Newtonian physics (unfortunately now abandonware, i dumped money into this fucking pit, but it has a solid base you can fool around with).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/366000/Rogue_System/

 

[oldmanpaco]

This game is harder than any game made today.