What is Star Corsair?
Star Corsair is a massively multiplayer trading/political/combat game for the PC, which merges the space setting and trading/combat system of the “Elite” series into a massively multiplayer environment, encouraging diplomacy, politics and freedom of play.

Key Features
 Top-down space view.
 Massively multiplayer.
 Ships like in Elite:Frontier - you can buy different sized ships, and outfit it with weapons, cargo space, propulsion, shields etc. – all costing money, of course.
 Players are free to choose at any time – exploration, trade, piracy, mercenary etc.
 Political model where different groups control different parts of the galaxies, and colonies can be fought over etc.
 Empires war, and players actions and their affiliations have effects on empire diplomacy.
 World-exploration system where players can trade map information - where exploration is a commodity
 Economic model where supply and demand control prices – border worlds will need supply goods, and will grow and expand depending on supply.
 New systems are added as the old ones are explored.
 Players can start new colonies and expand their political empire, colonies can be attacked and taken over.
 Mission system where npc’s and pc’s offer rewards (monetary, reputation etc) for doing things like package delivery, passenger transport, deliver secret documents etc.
 Merchant npcs, pirate npcs, military npcs
 Translucent Heads Up Display on-screen which shows ship status, co-ordinates, targeting system which shows info on the in-range selected planet/ship/starbase (like Xwing/Tiefighter) etc.

Genre
Multiplayer Action RPG – Space/SciFi Setting