Greetings,
I've been playing Elite since the commercial launch of the game. Sadly I missed the Kickstarter. I took a break for about 2/3 of 2015, but I've been back for a few months now. I've done most of what can be done in the game... trading, exploring, bounty hunting... even a little pirating.
I'm not interested in PvP. I've only actually been attacked 3 or 4 times, but considering how often I run into other players in "Open", that's often enough. When I only have a 30 minutes or so to play, I usually choose "Solo" because I don't have time to run into a hostile player. If I'm doing an activity in a populated system, I also sometimes choose "Solo" because I don't want to run into hostile players. I'd be nice to play Multiplayer all the time, but yet not have to worry about running into PvP players. Also, on the flip side, I think sometimes my Python makes other players I run into nervous. I said "hi" to an Adder pilot yesterday, and he didn't reply and high-waked out.
It's a big, empty galaxy out there, so I'm hoping to run into other players, do some co-op mining or bounty hunting at some point, maybe some co-op Power Play ranking.