The Elite Community(In My Experience)

64. And I am the junior member of my 'team' by almost a decade.

Two aspects of the "community" not mentioned that is possibly rare in other games (no clue really, just guessing), are the materials exchange thread and posting of the pre-engineered suits and weapons locations.

Many players as they travel around, either searching for themselves, or just checking stock available as they visit stations doing other stuff, when they find the G2 or G3 gear ready to be bought will post so that others can buy it, saving them time and effort searching.

Especially once they have upgraded and modified their suits and weapons, many CMDRs will either trade or donate materials to other CMDRs to give them a helping hand. Many CMDRs will also collect materials that are not needed by them, with the sole intention of donating to others.

I believe that the above two activities, especially the latter, makes this "community" stand out in a positive way.

Steve 07.
 
Wait...there are top players?...

well if course there are... how did you think this Python got to be on the top? simple, the Python player is the top player just look at where it is located, on the top...

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Then you go on any YT comments section and find the level of projection is sky-high, with the most toxic, biased and baseless comments attacking the community, in a wonderful display of pot and kettle mentality.

Part of the problem its up to the channel owner to moderate most of the time. YouTube mods will only step in if it really crosses the line and is reported. I guess most YouTubers, at least the popular ones, just don't have the time to moderate their comments sections, unless they earn enough to hire people to moderate them for them.
 
Is it bothering anyone else that we are not able to play the game, currently? I'm 73...

I'd just logged off, so no :D

On my way to the gym. Best be back up by the time i get back! I'll be pumped and looking for trouble if not! :D

Ok, not really, i'll be wiped and if i can't play i'll just grab a book to read :D
 
I’m no where near the oldest but I did play the original ‘84 (and other) versions of Elite as an adult and will be retiring from my job in January 2023 with 33 years of service. I kinda like the crowd here because of its seniorness. Note that I didn’t say “mature” lol.
 
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I'd just logged off, so no :D

On my way to the gym. Best be back up by the time i get back! I'll be pumped and looking for trouble if not! :D

Ok, not really, i'll be wiped and if i can't play i'll just grab a book to read :D
So there are people still able to play... switch out modules and what-not?
 
I had the WB issue (they disappeared but were easily put back) and the stored modules issue... no play since Friday... I'm wondering what the f'ity f'n F, you know?
 
'Top Players' I suppose Musketeer and Kate (if she's back from SC) would fit the catagory.
I've been playing since the Original (NES version) I think the game reaches something deeper within us though we may have to experience a few decades before we really appreciate it.
I'm 43.
 
So this post will require a bit of backstory. Before I started playing Elite early this year, I played a game called World of Tanks Blitz. Played it basically since day 1 and became one of the best players, to the point where I actually took part in a tournament where if my clan(squadron in Elite lingo) won, we’d have been paid to go to Las Vegas and play on a national stage. Needless to say those of you who have experience with competitive gamers knows where this is going. Competitive gamers tend to have extreme competitiveness and hyper aggression as traits, especially in games like that one. This makes them better players, but it also makes them social cancer. However, this community(WoTB) as a whole was known for toxicity, the experts were just even more so.

Ive been in a couple other gaming communities before, none of them exactly nice, so I expected more of the same from Elite. I expected that if I said something that I believed to be true but wasn’t actually that people would give the usual response. You know the one. “Lol noob ur so stupid!” That kind of stuff. If I stated an opinion about a ship that others disagreed with I expected more of the same. I expected people to be the usual unhelpful, incredibly rude, and general cancerous behavior you normally see from gamers and that has been the usual standard in my experience.

Yet that hasn’t happened. If I said something wrong, someone just politely corrected me. If I have a differing opinion, no one makes a fuss about it. People have been remarkably pleasant to me thus far. Sure you’re gonna find the occasional person in game who will try to kill you for no particular reason, but that’s just a hazard of playing a game online. Hell in one instance during one of the community goals where systems were seceding from the Federation I entered a Combat Zone that had already been completed by a player, he asked me which side I was fighting for in the event, and when I told him I was fighting against the Federation(not on his side), even though Combat Zones are Lawless areas where he could’ve killed me with no issues, he didn’t even make an attempt.

For whatever reason the community is like this, I want to say something to all of you.

Thank you.

Thank you for not being toxic. Thank you for being overall a kind and courteous community of people. Thank you for helping me when I have questions. Thank you for offering a carrier to dock at for repairs and resupply when I’m 20,000 LY away from the nearest station and need a place to do some patchwork. Thank you for your words of encouragement and congratulation when I find or do something I feel proud of. Thank you for being decent human beings. You almost never see that, at least in my experience, in an online gaming community.
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