looking for a space combat game

[Raapys]

Why? The heart and soul have been torn out of the majority of the game industry.

Too true.

http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespac...009bc8bff29180

There you can find Freespace 2 The Source Code Project(fs2_open) and much more, including a Babylon 5 total conversion of FS2.
I have to agree, Freespace 2 is really excellent. The only other space sim I enjoyed as much is Privateer 2.
Freelancer 2 had its moments, having an especially good atmosphere, cool asteriod fields, and interesting star systems(though the scale was wrong), but the game itself is good for little else than short blow-em-up trips, which is fun only for a little while.

The only space sim I'm looking forward to is X3. What X2 lacked was a good flight model, and hopefully X3 will fix that, along with lots of other improvements.