Hai CMDR Kynko here
Cutting my Elite teeth on the ZX-Spectrum in the early 80s, loved it very much, but accidently erased my save game on the tape lol, Fell in love with "Frontier" but was not happy with "Encounters", now hooked very much on Dangerous, i love exploring and having fun at the Nav Beacons
me and a couple of friends tried to make a clone game at college .. had a basic 3D engine but fell foul of creating universe data which topped 1GB ... that was alot in those days and the sys-admin got a bit upset lol
See you out there friends