Hi there,
I'm new... to elitepve, not to Elite. I've played the first one "back then" on my Commodore, looong ago. In fact long enough for me not to remember if it was on my C64 or my Amiga...
Anyway, I've been playing E:D since 2015, or 3301 in E:D reckoning.
Right now I'm working on combat elite - but I don't want to be cannon fodder for gankers, spankers, grieferkids and similar people - so here I am.
My regular playstyle is more of the explorer kind, I just got back from a two year deep space mission to the Bubble Nebula, with a close pass at Altera's Eye and the Iris nebula on the way back, which gave me enough data to sell to turn exploration elite.