My favorite memory is when I first got my Corvette, I didn't have enough to outfit it at the station. I got into a dogfight with an Elite Commander flying a Courier. I ran out of bullets so on the last joust pass I boosted and pitched nose down but I accidentally hit FA/off. My tail hit this Commander in the face SO hard that when I pitched back up he was 2km away. Then he blew up. Best. Accidental. Kill. Ever.
Celebrating 35 years of Elite!
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Commander name: Tikanderoga
My fav memory goes back to playing Elite on C64, when I finally figured out how to dock, I barely spoke any english at the time, I had no idea what slaves were or where to buy them but I was happy as a clam when I was able to afford that military laser to equip my little ship with it and show everyone who was the boss. I was about 12 at the time and it always one of my favourite games to play on my C64.
My fav memory goes back to playing Elite on C64, when I finally figured out how to dock, I barely spoke any english at the time, I had no idea what slaves were or where to buy them but I was happy as a clam when I was able to afford that military laser to equip my little ship with it and show everyone who was the boss. I was about 12 at the time and it always one of my favourite games to play on my C64.
Hello frontier team, david braben and co. I still remember the sound of the docking computer in 1985. These midi sounds of the Danube waltz I get a little goose bumps today when I hear it. I always associate the Danube waltz with elite. Awsome. Keep up the good work! See you in the black ;-) CMDR Käptn Kux
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My favourite Elite memory has to be the time my brother and I made our first intergalactic jump, in the original Elite. This would have been in about 1986 (3272?) - we played on the Acorn Electron, in the days when you had to wait for the cassette to load. Saving up enough credits for the intergalactic drive had taken us ages, and we were so excited (aged about 6 and 11) as we powered up the drive for the first time to explore entirely new frontiers. It's that incredibly powerful sense of exploration and discovery that really drives me when I'm exploring the billions of previously unseen star systems in Elite Dangerous.
CMDR SaintedLegion
The Fatherhood squadron
CMDR SaintedLegion
The Fatherhood squadron
18 April 2018, i create my first ship kit for the Diamonback Explorer (my beloved):
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...ship-kit-wip-proposal-feature-request.423163/
Some days after a ship kit appears in the store!
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...ship-kit-wip-proposal-feature-request.423163/
Some days after a ship kit appears in the store!
CMDR factabulous
Out for months in the black, searching for new Guardian areas. First on a sweep of Eta Carina as one had been found nearby, found a load more sites but the area was already known. Then on to Skaudai to search for more sites - again found more, but the area was already known. Headed corewards and started searching around the Prua Phoe nebula where no Guardians had been found. First I found Brain Trees - always a sign that the Guardians are nearby - and then finally - success! Guardians found in PRUA PHOE TS-B D252 (followed by a few others). Quite a feeling to find Guardians where none had been seen before, felt like being a real explorer
Out for months in the black, searching for new Guardian areas. First on a sweep of Eta Carina as one had been found nearby, found a load more sites but the area was already known. Then on to Skaudai to search for more sites - again found more, but the area was already known. Headed corewards and started searching around the Prua Phoe nebula where no Guardians had been found. First I found Brain Trees - always a sign that the Guardians are nearby - and then finally - success! Guardians found in PRUA PHOE TS-B D252 (followed by a few others). Quite a feeling to find Guardians where none had been seen before, felt like being a real explorer
Happy birthday Elite!
Humanity is so far from achieving interstellar travel that I think - for a guy/gal in his forties - Elite in VR is the closest thing to experience what it might be like.
So of course, one of my favorite moments was when I put the Oculus DK1 on my almost bald head and saw the space, ships, stations in their proper size.
The other was fighting the War for Lugh, making friendships with other commanders, and ultimately winning it together with my fellow Crimson State Group supporters.
CMDR Player2
Humanity is so far from achieving interstellar travel that I think - for a guy/gal in his forties - Elite in VR is the closest thing to experience what it might be like.
So of course, one of my favorite moments was when I put the Oculus DK1 on my almost bald head and saw the space, ships, stations in their proper size.
The other was fighting the War for Lugh, making friendships with other commanders, and ultimately winning it together with my fellow Crimson State Group supporters.
CMDR Player2
Happy Birthday Elite!
I first played Elite as a 12yo on the Amstrad CPC464, and also had the opportunity to play it on both a BBC and a C64. Now I am on XBox, and have been since Day 6 after I randomly decided to search for it on the XBox store.
My favourite memory would have to be messing around with new friends while on the Azophi Expedition. We frequently parked up in the designated landing area each week, mucked about getting our SRVs on top of people's ships or played Commodity Soccer, and then sacrificed one volunteered SRV upon a suitable rock anointed as the Altar of Braben for the occasion The two videos are a week apart, but they are typical of the sort of thing we often got up to while nattering away! My SRV, "Circle Worker", is the Purple People Eater, btw.
Platform: XBox
GT: Jimmox72
I first played Elite as a 12yo on the Amstrad CPC464, and also had the opportunity to play it on both a BBC and a C64. Now I am on XBox, and have been since Day 6 after I randomly decided to search for it on the XBox store.
My favourite memory would have to be messing around with new friends while on the Azophi Expedition. We frequently parked up in the designated landing area each week, mucked about getting our SRVs on top of people's ships or played Commodity Soccer, and then sacrificed one volunteered SRV upon a suitable rock anointed as the Altar of Braben for the occasion
The two videos are a week apart, but they are typical of the sort of thing we often got up to while nattering away! My SRV, "Circle Worker", is the Purple People Eater, btw.Platform: XBox
GT: Jimmox72
All I can say is AMAZING. I played Elite on my first computer; the good old Commodore 64 (with a 1541 floppy disk drive). I must have spent hours (probably days / weeks) flying around the galaxy as a 10 year old imagining how 'big' the game was and honing my skills as the best hunter, trader and miner of all my mates. I now play ED in VR and it still amazes me how how close ED is to the wire frame graphics of the original. The radar HUD in the original and ED are also very similar. Such a fantastic and elegant solution to get a 3D space mapped in 2D. Of course the size in ED is just mind blowing and the realism in VR is exceptional. I'm now 45 and still playing. I would like to think I'll still be amazed at the progression of the game in the next few decades.
CMDR Tw!st!e
CMDR Tw!st!e
I can still remember the time and the place. A Monday morning, early October 1984, my college lecture theatre. My friend Simon came in and said "I've bought the most amazing game. It's called Elite. You HAVE to see it.". The lecture, the remainder of that day, was punctuated with descriptions of flight, trade, combat, all on a BBC Micro. Oh and the packaging, the book, the map, the novel. As soon as the college day finished, we took the train to Simon's house. With the BBC B Micro booted up and the Elite disk inserted, a whole world, no a universe, opened up in front of me. I was hooked.
The following day I went to purchase my own copy, my own journey as a Commander. That winter of 1984/85, any moment I could, I was flying my wireframe Cobra, loving the trade elements of the game as much as the combat. I eventually mastered the incredibly difficult docking procedure before being able to afford a docking computer. I can still remember the sense of relief, after some particularly difficult combat action, hearing the docking music and knowing my precious cargo was safe.
That original game came with a short-time offer to obtain an Elite badge, based upon rank attained. Try as I might (thanks to a Computing degree getting in the way), I could 'only' reach Dangerous by the time the form had to be submitted. I subsequently attained Deadly rank but never quite made it to Elite. I loyally played the later games but nothing ever came close to those experiences of the original Elite.
I never forgot Elite. I kept the game in its original packaging long after my BBC B micro gave up the ghost. I've kept no other old computer games, just Elite, safely in a box. Over the years I kept an eye out for what David Braben was doing, always hoping that perhaps one day a new version of Elite could be made. The rest of course is history. Now in my 50s, I don't get the time for much gaming, but whenever there's the chance, I return to my pilot's seat, now proudly an Elite Explorer, and marvel at this incredible gift David and Frontier have given us.
Right On Commander.
CMDR Maclaren
The following day I went to purchase my own copy, my own journey as a Commander. That winter of 1984/85, any moment I could, I was flying my wireframe Cobra, loving the trade elements of the game as much as the combat. I eventually mastered the incredibly difficult docking procedure before being able to afford a docking computer. I can still remember the sense of relief, after some particularly difficult combat action, hearing the docking music and knowing my precious cargo was safe.
That original game came with a short-time offer to obtain an Elite badge, based upon rank attained. Try as I might (thanks to a Computing degree getting in the way), I could 'only' reach Dangerous by the time the form had to be submitted. I subsequently attained Deadly rank but never quite made it to Elite. I loyally played the later games but nothing ever came close to those experiences of the original Elite.
I never forgot Elite. I kept the game in its original packaging long after my BBC B micro gave up the ghost. I've kept no other old computer games, just Elite, safely in a box. Over the years I kept an eye out for what David Braben was doing, always hoping that perhaps one day a new version of Elite could be made. The rest of course is history. Now in my 50s, I don't get the time for much gaming, but whenever there's the chance, I return to my pilot's seat, now proudly an Elite Explorer, and marvel at this incredible gift David and Frontier have given us.
Right On Commander.
CMDR Maclaren
Hi Frontier!
Well, where do I start, I've got loads of great memories from Elite over the years. However, I think that my favourite memory is when I first managed to dock!
I first saw a friend playing Elite on their Spectrum, but I only properly played it when we got it for our Amstrad 1512 in the late 80s. I didn't really understand what I was meant to do so just worked my way through the keyboard working out which keys did what. My younger brother and I worked out how to use hyperspace before learning how to dock, and had the fright of our lives when we first jumped into Orerve! (later we found out that Riedquat was even worse!).
But we still didn't really know what we had to do (we were at primary school and this was one of the first computer games we ever played). Then a friend of our Dad's said something about getting back into the space station after launching. This was something we had never managed to do before as we had always crashed so we had always just ignored it was we thought it was impossible, but the idea that this might be the objective of the game made us approach it with a whole new weight of expectation and anticipation.
Anyone who has tried to dock in one of the original Elite games knows how difficult it is to do. It is impossible to stop, because there is a minimum speed the ship will go so you're always moving forward. And controlling the ship with binary inputs from a keyboard is completely different from using an analogue controller, it takes a long time to master the cadence at which one must tap the roll left key and how to keep the ship lined up with the slot, not drifting up or down from it. If we start to move away from the perfect line up then panic can start to set in as the control inputs seem to make the ship swerve up and down more and more erratically and finally.... bang! Game over!
One day, however, we managed to do it. It had taken a long long time to learn how to do it, that the best way is to fly towards the planet (green in our lovely CGA version!) then turn around to face the station. If you've done it right then you're pointing directly at the slot, perpendicular to the face of the station. Then it's just a case of flying forwards, keeping lined up and rolling occasionally to stay horizontally aligned. Keep going forwards. Steady. Steady! Don't Panic!
The black slot gets larger, you think you're going to drift into the side and explode again! But, amazingly, the black takes over the whole screen, a fancy animation shows us passing through the force field and into the hangar and we've done it! We're inside the space station, we've completed the game!
But why is everything the same as before we launched? What's new? Why isn't there some fancy message saying "Congratulations Commander!? (seriously, there should have been!). Ah, I see, now I understand!
Docking is difficult. But it's just the beginning....!
Here's to another 35 years,
Thanks to everyone who's worked on every version ever, and especially to both David Braben and Ian Bell, we owe you both a lot of gratitude, thanks for the memories
Cheers,
CMDR Mad Billy
PS - Thargoids are invading the forum!
Well, where do I start, I've got loads of great memories from Elite over the years. However, I think that my favourite memory is when I first managed to dock!
I first saw a friend playing Elite on their Spectrum, but I only properly played it when we got it for our Amstrad 1512 in the late 80s. I didn't really understand what I was meant to do so just worked my way through the keyboard working out which keys did what. My younger brother and I worked out how to use hyperspace before learning how to dock, and had the fright of our lives when we first jumped into Orerve! (later we found out that Riedquat was even worse!).
But we still didn't really know what we had to do (we were at primary school and this was one of the first computer games we ever played). Then a friend of our Dad's said something about getting back into the space station after launching. This was something we had never managed to do before as we had always crashed so we had always just ignored it was we thought it was impossible, but the idea that this might be the objective of the game made us approach it with a whole new weight of expectation and anticipation.
Anyone who has tried to dock in one of the original Elite games knows how difficult it is to do. It is impossible to stop, because there is a minimum speed the ship will go so you're always moving forward. And controlling the ship with binary inputs from a keyboard is completely different from using an analogue controller, it takes a long time to master the cadence at which one must tap the roll left key and how to keep the ship lined up with the slot, not drifting up or down from it. If we start to move away from the perfect line up then panic can start to set in as the control inputs seem to make the ship swerve up and down more and more erratically and finally.... bang! Game over!
One day, however, we managed to do it. It had taken a long long time to learn how to do it, that the best way is to fly towards the planet (green in our lovely CGA version!) then turn around to face the station. If you've done it right then you're pointing directly at the slot, perpendicular to the face of the station. Then it's just a case of flying forwards, keeping lined up and rolling occasionally to stay horizontally aligned. Keep going forwards. Steady. Steady! Don't Panic!
The black slot gets larger, you think you're going to drift into the side and explode again! But, amazingly, the black takes over the whole screen, a fancy animation shows us passing through the force field and into the hangar and we've done it! We're inside the space station, we've completed the game!
But why is everything the same as before we launched? What's new? Why isn't there some fancy message saying "Congratulations Commander!? (seriously, there should have been!). Ah, I see, now I understand!
Docking is difficult. But it's just the beginning....!
Here's to another 35 years,
Thanks to everyone who's worked on every version ever, and especially to both David Braben and Ian Bell, we owe you both a lot of gratitude, thanks for the memories
Cheers,
CMDR Mad Billy
PS - Thargoids are invading the forum!
I think my greatest memory was in FFE at Soholia, the "Hunger at Soholia" has become a memory of the start of a really big adventure at the time.
Cmdr Alan Trent out
Cmdr Alan Trent out
My favourite memory was finally being able to afford a docking computer on the original Elite. Manual docking was much harder than it is now, and a docking computer was very very expensive.
fav memory? When Braben still cared about Elite:dangerous more than he cared about munney
CMDR chief_wrench
My fondest memory is first time hooking up my freshly received Vive to my PC and sitting inside my ship for real.
Oh Boy!
My fondest memory is first time hooking up my freshly received Vive to my PC and sitting inside my ship for real.
Oh Boy!
CMDR Xavirock
My best memory is when I explored the solar system with my 5 y-old daughter. She loves to hear about the universe and wanted us to check the Moon , Earth, Mars and especially Jupiter and Saturn. Also she is afraid of space pirates so the Solar system was quite safe
Fly safe commanders o7
My best memory is when I explored the solar system with my 5 y-old daughter. She loves to hear about the universe and wanted us to check the Moon , Earth, Mars and especially Jupiter and Saturn. Also she is afraid of space pirates so the Solar system was quite safe
Fly safe commanders o7
My story begins back in 1984 with the original elite using the BBC Micro and a tape drive.
My brother was up playing. We basically shared the actually playing of the Elite game to rank up our pilot as much as we could. What happened was I suddenly heard him cry out for help. Luckily, I was just downstairs at the time, so I came running. When I got to him, I found him with the joystick actually sticks stick in his hand. These were the original ones from Acorn and you get two joysticks with these things, which was lucky.
But what he done was, whilst flying in hyperspace he had been interdicted by the Thargoids (our first ever encounter) which back in those days, the octagonal line art and he had snapped the joystick off completely because it scared the heck out of him.
Back then all you had was a fire trigger, and the actual stick itself. So, it basically just snapped it off in his frustration trying to avoid being shot and he needed me to come up and fire the missiles, because he was trying to hold the joystick with these knees and get hold of what was left of the actual stick inside with the tip of his finger, that was all he could do. He couldn't fire anything. He was just trying to fly some sort of random pattern to avoid being hit.
I think we got lucky and managed to kill it and the scooped up the small Thargoid vessels and sold them as Alien artefacts.
So that's my funny story about that. Great memories.
I am Commander SamtheSplatt
I have others like don't fall asleep after a five hour session and your coming into land on a planet base with a nervous passenger. Manage to save the ship at least
but that's my favourite.
My brother was up playing. We basically shared the actually playing of the Elite game to rank up our pilot as much as we could. What happened was I suddenly heard him cry out for help. Luckily, I was just downstairs at the time, so I came running. When I got to him, I found him with the joystick actually sticks stick in his hand. These were the original ones from Acorn and you get two joysticks with these things, which was lucky.
But what he done was, whilst flying in hyperspace he had been interdicted by the Thargoids (our first ever encounter) which back in those days, the octagonal line art and he had snapped the joystick off completely because it scared the heck out of him.
Back then all you had was a fire trigger, and the actual stick itself. So, it basically just snapped it off in his frustration trying to avoid being shot and he needed me to come up and fire the missiles, because he was trying to hold the joystick with these knees and get hold of what was left of the actual stick inside with the tip of his finger, that was all he could do. He couldn't fire anything. He was just trying to fly some sort of random pattern to avoid being hit.
I think we got lucky and managed to kill it and the scooped up the small Thargoid vessels and sold them as Alien artefacts.
So that's my funny story about that. Great memories.
I am Commander SamtheSplatt
I have others like don't fall asleep after a five hour session and your coming into land on a planet base with a nervous passenger. Manage to save the ship at least
but that's my favourite.
Cmdr Sgurr
There are so many incredible facets and moments in ED, but my favourite is being able to sit in the cockpit of my, and it does feel like MY, starship and experience all the galaxy has to offer firsthand.
Amazing.
I started in 1984 on the Acorn. The revelation for me there was discovering in system jumps, it had taken a really, really long time to get to stations before that. Doh!
o7
There are so many incredible facets and moments in ED, but my favourite is being able to sit in the cockpit of my, and it does feel like MY, starship and experience all the galaxy has to offer firsthand.
Amazing.
I started in 1984 on the Acorn. The revelation for me there was discovering in system jumps, it had taken a really, really long time to get to stations before that. Doh!
o7