Greetings CMDRs,
My name is CMDR Fregi Ventum. IRL I'm a 44 year-old Cisco UCS / VMWare architect for a large manufacturing company, husband and father of three. I live in the States, specifically in Mississippi. I've been looking at ED for quite a while and finally pulled the trigger last weekend. I spent two days playing training missions, watching videos and reading posts before playing in earnest. According to Steam, I have 98 hours on record so far. Time flies! I'm still playing in my sidewinder, mainly doing delivery missions while exploring and selling my maps and doing upgrades. It'll jump 17+ LY now. I'm just about to leave the bubble for the first time. I aspire to get myself a nicely kitted out Asp Explorer but I'd also like to get a Beluga and do passenger missions.
I'm a bit of a social creature, so the solo play has been somewhat lonely. I was avoiding open play as I don't really want to be griefed by the first unfriendly hollow square I come across, so when I read about Mobius while reading the Frontier Forums I thought to myself, "this is my kind of community!" Here I am!
I haven't really played any space SIMs since the old days of X-wing and Descent on my 386, and T.I.E. Fighter and Descent 2 on my 486.
Back then I used a CH F-16 Combat Stick (which I still own, somewhere in the attic). I remember Elite back in my C= 64 days, but honestly I did not play it. Typically I'm a story-driven FPS kinda guy (Bioshock and Borderlands to name a few) but this game has yanked me violently right back into the SIM genre.
Anyhow, enough about me. I look forward to a great relationship with this community and hope to explore the galaxy with you all! Please look me up once I join the in-game group PC/MAC - MOBIUS PVE AMERICA.
Thanks!
- FV