Tell us why you play Elite Dangerous!

There's no singular reason why I play Elite, so I will give you many...

I play Elite Dangerous for the thrill and adrenaline rush of fighting an unknown and terrifying alien race.

I play for the calming and therapeutic effects of exploring in deep space, earning my name on terraformable worlds that will one day be the home of millions.

I play to sate my hunger for credits by transporting thousands of expensive commodities before the latest "Gold Rush" ends.

I play for the feeling of comradery in the latest Community Goal, or Building of a station, or the undermining of a rival faction.

But most importantly, I play to share these experiences with my kiddo, video included...

It's gonna be a long introduction into my text.

I am the type of gamer that play different genres of games, with different themes, spanning from fantasy/medieval to modern, post apocalyptic to hyperfuturistic. I have unexplainable passion and curiosity about space, having read a lot of different things about space, planets, galaxies, and so on. I enjoy different media works about space, with the Star Wars franchise (and its spin-off) and the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey being my most favorite. I like Star Wars about how it's more focused as a space opera/fantasy than being some heavy sci-fi work. The galaxies are vast, crowded but empty, the ships and stations are dusty and rustic, they look rough, but have a charm in them. I love 2001: A Space Odyssey about how close it gets to reality in space traveling, the ships, the fear of machination, the fear of an unknown entity that might have the power to control us humans, and it transmit the true feelings of how is space: vast, empty, but still mysterious and fearful.

For some reasons I never knew about Elite: Dangerous, or the whole game series, until last year's July. I always wanted to play a space game, having known about such games like Kerbal's Space Program, or No Man's Sky. KSP doesn't look attractive enough to me, and NMS is a bit too sci-fi for my taste. Don't get me wrong, they are both very great game which you should give a try at some point, I have recently gotten into NMS again and am loving it, it's a very well made game with passionate and responsible developers. They had the worst release flop possible in gaming history, yet they've made the best comeback ever.

Now, back to Elite, I asked a friend about which game should I get during Steam Summer Sale, he sent me a list of different genres of game, Elite was one of it. Of course it's gonna be Elite! It's a space game! I said, bought it and installed it. The Odyssey/on foot intro-tutorial felt like Mass Effect (which is a good thing), I kept on with the tutorial, having no idea what is the game about, yes, it's about space, but what are you supposed to do? "You can do anything, be anything", my friend said. Tutorial is done, I found myself at the concourse of a surface station, I never knew where I was until recently, I was able to find the station and dock on it and get to the bar again, because I remembered the station's name, somehow the game never spawned me inside a new pilot system, which is why I could go back to it. Everything looked so good, I love how the station looked, outside the big window I could see the other part of the buildings.

As there was nothing to discover in the station, I got on pilot training half an hour later, the inside of the Sidewinder looked so good, so detailed, it's dusty, full of equiments and cables, of course, it's a budget ship loaned to every pilot, thanks to our Pilots Federation. Finished the tutorial, as I set my throttle to 0 to engage auto docking, the Blue Danube Waltz started playing on my ship's sound system. I found myself smiling as I'm looking at the mail slot getting closer to closer, listening to the song, as I knew it was a direct reference to my favorite movie.

After my first night of joining my friend to shoot some pirates in order to get myself a better ship, I kept coming back and back every day to continue what I left the other night, either finishing a mission I was doing the other day, new weapons, new activities. On the second night I found myself flying in a new Cobra Mk III trying to shoot some pirates, mining some minerals, or participating in a war (I barely killed anyone in the conflict zone), two weeks later I found myself hauling some commodities to get some credits, not counting sitting on my friend's ship's turret control to shoot Titan Indra's core on my second week, the other week I found myself flying around Guardian's Ruins doing Ram Tah's mission (credits, of course). Today, 1000 hours later, I am still flying around engineering a new ship, while polishing my flying skills in combat, beside doing regular power play activities, while getting excited for this weekend's short expedition organized by an allied squadron. The fun just never ends! And we're at the best time, new ships still incoming, and new types of activities.

As if there wasn't enough fun, I found myself getting into a squadron, there we do things together, get credits together, fight the Thargoids together, expand our supported faction, share our experience, and most of all help out new cmdrs.

The community is great, after a long time I'm able to see a game with such great community, when players instead of different preferences and factions, get to work together against the Thargoid, I never got the chance to participate in Distant World 1 & 2, but looking forward to its third edition.

It's a never-ending fun to me, as long as the servers are up :)

It's one of the few games I love, great community, good art direction, complicated but addictive mechanics and gameplay. It portraits greatly the vision of a future when humans have dominated a small portion of our galaxy, it paints a accurate picture of a space opera: vast and empty, but you'll never be alone.

1984 Elite was not the first game I played on the Commodore 64, but it was the first one I remember fully immersing myself in. It was a mail order purchase and I recall setting on it like a frenzied chimp when it finally arrived after what felt like weeks of waiting. I didn't have a lot of games at that time, hence the high excitement. Space Pilot and Skramble was the extent of my library back then, and they were both pretty basic gaming affairs. As basic as they were they did feed my enthusiasm for a certain genre...

I shredded the post packaging in record time and was probably lucky I didnt shred the game box in my haste to get it out. The first thing I remember was that box, it was much bigger than the other simple plastic cassette boxes that my other mail order games arrived in. It was cardboard and it felt fancy. It was mostly black with a big gold Elite logo on the front. The whole front of the box pulled off with a satisfying shhhoooooff to reveal the cassette nestled within, an instruction book, an overlay for the keyboard and even a novella! I think I managed to finish half of the novella before the game even loaded. It had a very cool loading screen, but boy were those datasettes sloooow.

So started my teenage love affair with Elite. The first thing I remember struggling with when it eventually loaded was trying to settle on a Cmdr name. It had to be cool. It had to inspire fear. It had to command respect. After much reflection and typing and retyping I eventually settled on the impressive moniker of... Commander Panda. The next day at school I excitedly babbled to anyone who'd listen about my exciting night of Elite... and got roundly ridiculed for my choice of name. That night when I loaded up the game I abandoned Commander Panda and restarted as... Commander Eyeball. Much cool, much fear, much respect. I also decided to keep my Elite adventures a bit more to myself from then on.

Every day after school I'd patiently wait for it to load before diving into a galaxy wide adventure of trade and combat. I made a headset with a microphone out of old headphones, wire and a blob of blutack so I really felt the part of a space faring Commander. I slowly upgraded my Cobra until I had military lasers installed on every view port. I never hit a single thing with the side mounted lasers but it was my first ingame flex - I was so rich I could afford top end gear just for the look of it, even though no-one else actually saw them. I gathered trumbles. I fought Thargoids. And then of course eventually all that was left was the grind to Elite.

I remember. A lot. Of grinding... The wiki says it took 6400 kills to get there, and I remember the chore of chasing what seemed like an endless pursuit of pirates. The feeling of elation and relief when the rating eventually ticked over from Deadly to Elite is something that I still remember distinctly.

40 years later and here I am again. I was not an early adopter of Elite Dangerous, quite the opposite, but I do feel I've joined at a great time and Im thoroughly enjoying reliving the adventure once again. o7 Cmdrs!

I've been playing in the Elite Universe since 1986. I remember hunching over a 12 inch Black & White portable TV mashing the rubber keys of my beloved Spectrum computer trying to dock with a spinning wireframe Coriolis station like it was just yesterday and I have been hooked ever since.

I've played Elite, Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters. I continued playing them through much of the wilderness years when rumour after rumour of a new Elite game always seemed to end in disappointment. Shortly after 2010 my life took a turn and I spent several years without a computer or console and was out of touch with gaming and so missed the Kickstarter announcement of Elite Dangerous.

In 2018 I bought an Xbox and discovered the game, I will never forget my first flight, guiding my little Sidewinder GSS Crimson Waltz out through the letterbox and past the toast rack, the roar of other players ships arriving and departing, the feeling of being a part of a living breathing galaxy. After 2 years on the Xbox I bought a PC and the first game I bought was another copy of Elite Dangerous.

After 6 years and over 7500 hours of gameplay I still play virtually every day and have no plans on stopping there are over 400 billion stars to explore and only a fraction of them have been visited even after 10 years. My Fleet Carrier GSS Mildly Amused Roger has a lot of work yet to do. Why do I play it? Elite Dangerous is my second home, my refuge from the pressures of real life. When people ask I tell them I have 2 jobs and my second one is a space ship Commander.

👍 Elite Dangerous is a game that captures the immensity of space like nothing else. But it’s not just about size; it’s about freedom. You can be a trader hauling precious cargo, a bounty hunter chasing the galaxy’s most wanted, a miner delving into asteroid fields, or an explorer scanning uncharted planets. Why do you still play it? 🚀 This Video : ➤Link:

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