Lions are essentially lazy creatures (hey, I would call it efficient), so this is just an edited version of my intro from the official E-D forum....
Hello to all you fellow-travellers of the great ocean
(And to everyone else - the secret is to keep on banging the rocks together, guys)
I first played Elite in 1986, on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, with wire-frame GFX. Yes, I'm over 18! I was aware of, and excited by, E-D almost from the moment it was announced but a combination of being caught up in the recession & being 'gamed out' after some 3,000 hours of Skyrim meant I didn't purchase it until mid-April. I've lurked this forum quite a bit since then, but didn't feel motivated to join & post until now because I was just to damned busy enjoying the game! But taking some time to let 1.3 'settle down' & carefully decide which power to work with seems prudent right now.
My forum name is NOT my player name, but that won't matter because - for now anyway - I play PvE exclusively. Mostly 'cuz that was the only option from 1986 until now. My forum name is also my twitter handle & forum name on all of the 'crypto-currency' sites I inhabit, so I'm not exactly hard to find 'on Sol'
I currently fly a fully-pimped* Cobra & have about 12 million in the bank. No interest in exploration. In D&D terms, my character would be 'lawful/good'. Don't like slavery, do like 'the right to choose what I put in my body' (4:20 'til I die!) I suppose my fave activity so far has been taking out pirates at RE sites as part of CGs.
My rig is a decent i7 with 12Gb dram & an HD7990, I play on a 32" Samsung HDTV with a 24" 'on the side' for reference pages (Like Thrudd), for control I have a Thrustmaster HOTAS (soon to be replaced by an X-52 pro) & a Razer Nostromo. I'm in the process of getting OpenTrack/FreePIE tuned to my set-up. I don't use voice-control as I like to play LOUD on a Logitech 550w 5.1 surround, with http://www.morrow.com (24/7 prog rock) as the soundtrack to my adventures rather than the in-game stuff.
Keej, that was then & this is now. The idea of still being my own boss, but having a few like-minded souls to chat with, and even co-operate with, is quite appealing. I've seen this group logo at the bottom of enough 'meaningful' posts to know you're kosher, so to quote Shakespeare "Why the furque not?"
See y'all in the Big Black
* http://coriolis.io/outfit/cobra_mk_iii/ ... ?bn=Merlin
But I thought the one I'm using was particularly well adapted to the official forum (although I had to remove it from there because of their size limit).