Commander S.H.A.D.O here, I recently found out about your group and I was very interested and would like to join you all. Now I'll bore you with my Elite history
I bought the BBC Model B cassette version of Elite the day it hit the shops, it was pretty expensive but that big black box contained oodles of goodies and fired my imagination more than any game ever did. So much so that for my birthday the following year (1985) I asked for and was given (yes, only child and spoiled) a disk drive, disk version of Elite and a DFS upgrade for my BBC.. back in the days when you took the machine in and they actually soldered new chips inside it
(I got a metal badge from Acornsoft after sending in a photo of my Elite status, I treasured that for years but sadly its been lost down the years)I played the game every spare moment for literally years! then when Frontier hit I had an Amiga, I loved Frontier and played it to death but I have to admit I preferred the combat in Elite (sorry). When FFE hit I didn't have a PC and they didn't release an Amiga version much to my deep annoyance (yeah, its obvious why) at that time I couldn't afford a PC so I went without FFE.
Eventually I got a PC and tried games such as XBFT, X-Tension, X2, Freelancer etc etc but even though they were fun, none of them grabbed me like Elite and Frontier did.
Amusingly before the Elite ks was announced I had planned to give up PC gaming and stick to my consoles and handheld, I planned to just use my old PC until it died and then call it a day. of course that all changed the moment the Elite kickstarter appeared. after picking my jaw up off the floor and convincing myself it was real and no hoax I jumped in and dropped £100 on it so I would get the collectors edition box and premium beta access.
after seeing images and youtube videos of Alpha 1 my willpower crumbled and I scraped the money together to drop another £100 on the Alpha. I've been playing since Alpha 2.0 I love it, sure there are small things I'd change but mostly its been amazing.
Although I'm not sure my wife would agree, after I've raided our savings to upgrade that old PC of mine. new mobo, new cpu, new gpu, new case because the gpu wouldn't fit in the old one, new psu for the new gpu, new SSD drive and X-52 to play it with. haha Thankfully she is totally supportive. (I guess it keeps me quiet and out of her way
)in game I kind of a jack of all trades, trader, miner, explorer, bounty hunter etc. The only thing I don't really do is PVP. also I'm 'live and let live' if there are people around me I don't bother them or attack them for no reason. (if they are wanted thats another thing)
okay, I've bored you enough!
Right on Commanders!
