Hi There to all.
I live on the East Sussex coast in the UK. I am a retired Police Officer who is now taking gents living with Dementia out for social activities.
My Username Trickyhicky is the nickname I was given in the Police, but that is a loooooong story.
I played the original Elite on the Amiga 500 with a million floppy disks. Great game and got so much stick from the wife for being on it for hours wanging around in my wireframe ship.
20 odd years later my youngest son (24) came screaming downstairs to tell me that he had found Elite Dangerous Horizon for free on the Epic streaming service and he had set me up with an account. My goodness me hasn't it evolved. I find it stunning that there is such a community around this...... do I call it a game? Let's play it safe and call it an Experience.
So here I am stumbling around the black void reliving my younger days. I have a headset arriving Christmas day, a HOTAS Boxing day, both of which I hope will improve my abilities. For the time being, I am satisfied with trading and exploring and clacking about on my keyboard and mouse finding my way around all the add ons commands.
I am desperate to get the voice commands under my belt and a new computer voice. These are all the things back in the early 90's I thought would be fun to have never realised it would become a reality.
I wish to thank all the sprogs who have made this possible so to all the computer engineers, code scripters, Board admins, idea realisers and most of all to the original Elite team for regrouping and letting the community in to help with making it a success.
Will I go for Odessy? Not a big fan of first-person shoot em up's but maybe if my sons get on board Elite I'll be the old sweat driving the personnel carrier (on blue lights and 2tones) and they can be the foot soldiers who bailout and take out the scroates. Who knows?
Why PVE? to start with I played solo to get my head around the game, and whilst doing so I realised I was picking up background chatter on the comms screen in busy area's where newbies like me were getting picked off by people who were trying to get a reputation by picking off low hanging fruit. I also understand that those of us who prefer PVE can meet up (how I do not know yet ) and play against the machine. But that for me is a bit down the trail at the mo.
Anyway, thank you for letting me join Mobius and crew.