@DrewCarnegie
Why, what else is needed for a criticism?
Lots of sugar and whipped cream, cause people can't take it plain, without wasting 100 pointless words of reassurance to get 10 words of criticism in? No idea how we got this far from Sparta, where you need a 10:1 noise to signal ratio or people can't handle it.
You can never make everybody happy no matter how far you bend out of shape. He might as well just keep his spine straight and say what he will.
And there IS no story in Elite, unless they decide to maybe develop Thargoids into a story.
I took a two year break shortly after PP pointlessly got stuffed into the game. Now I will probably do the new mission types, some engineering and try out the Corvette. Then it'll fizzle out and I'll take another 2 Year break. Maybe Chris Roberts gets his stuff together by then, or maybe he doesn't.
It might become my final, indefinite break from computer games alltogether.