The Elite Community(In My Experience)

Thwarptide

Banned
Thwarptide
Well, there’s pretty much several reasons why you experience the nice side of folks.
1. We’re not permitted to be cruel, offensive and otherwise obnoxious old(ish) pharts, per terms of service. I’ve let things slip a couple times, was arrested and put on an FDev prison ship, surround by the ugliest, fattest and smelliest Harbnobbin Garble beast. But my offense was actually a self defense in regard to a few young mouthy cmdrs. Regardless, I admitted my guilt, did my time, then blew up their prison ship. (I’m feeling much better now, thank you. 👍)
2. I’m starting my 5th year in ED, play every day, unless I go fishing. I’ve tried out every role there is in the first year. Elite veterans where here to guide and coach every step of the way. Probably drove a few back to the bottle too.
When I found my niche they really shined graciously and beyond the call. Just as with you, I am grateful. These are the ones that are still around, a few have been ignorantly chased off, sick and tired of dealing with the know it alls who actually didn’t exactly know as much as they thought, but were still adamant about what they thought they knew. They in turn faded away. Its the ones that are still around are those that serve as mentors and models of how to behave. Oddly though, when there’s a butting of heads (it happens) and zingers are required, they’re still cordial about it.

But once we log out of the forum’s, trust me, some of us go right back to beating our wives, kicking the dogs, locking misbehaving kids in the basement, reading Oprah magazine and running over the mail boxes of neighbors WE DON’T LIKE!
Not me though, I’m awesome! 😛😜🤪
 
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quackinthebush

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I love this thread, it's one of the rare times where Real Life crosses over to the weird, anonymous world of forum interwebs. Also really cool to hear the age spectrum.

One of the first things that struck me about Elite when I started playing 3 years ago was the community, mostly viewed from the ED forum. Much more supportive, mature, and honestly laugh out loud hilarious than any I've seen before. I've also seen a pretty notable increase in snark and cynicism the last, oh, 7 months. I think perhaps we lost some of the old guard, but I'm optimistic the vibe will improve as long as the patches keep rolling.

I'm 38.

Cheers!
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
Felix DiCestria said:
'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.
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I think Kate went and made a new home...
 

Frank

Frank
Northpin said:
ED community, at least here on the forums, is quite nice.
Toxicity is not really a problem maybe also because it's not really tolerated and we have a nice team of voluntary mods to enforce the rules.
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Linguistic Determinism

Get rid of the doubleplusungood words and you get rid of the doubleplusungood thoughtcrimes. It actually does work

My hat goes off to the moderators who are down in the sewers working to keep everything clean up here. I turned down the offer to become one. I worked as a moderator on an AOL game, and that's enough to put anybody off the idea for life
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
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Only 57 - but I too was allowed to stay up late and watch that first step onto the moon.
 

Ulberto

Ulberto
Reading this topic, one might get the impression that the elite is a game for the elderly. In fact, young people are simply afraid to be among the grunting old people, having written a message here, lol. Joke. You are all cool.
I'm 34 and my life is just beginning.
 

Legoshi Brown

Legoshi Brown
Ulberto said:
Reading this topic, one might get the impression that the elite is a game for the elderly. In fact, young people are simply afraid to be among the grunting old people, having written a message here, lol. Joke. You are all cool.
I'm 34 and my life is just beginning.
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I actually enjoy being around the older crowd despite being a rather young gun at 23. The more senior adults don’t all think they’re so cool because they use the newest pointless slang and stay up to date with the latest ridiculously dumb meme. More than that, the older crowd always have some amazing stories to tell, and I love hearing them.

Yeah I’m not the usual millennial, and honestly I’m grateful for it after having dealt with the others of my generation that I have.
 

Caelum Incola

Caelum Incola
My own experience has been overwhelmingly positive in my three and a half years or more of playing. From my first tentative steps into the black and feeling utterly overwhelmed with the cliff face of a learning curve to deal with, to getting rescued shortly after by a Fuel Rat, completing Distant Worlds 2, attending Lavecon 2019, winging up with random CMDRs in CGs to protect other players from gankers, becoming a Fuel Rat myself... the list goes on.

In all my years of gaming (40+) I've never been as invested or enjoyed a game for as long as I've enjoyed Elite. That, is primarily down to this community. Thank you from me too.

....and I'll be 52 on Sunday. If you'd like to give me a present my carrier 'Eye of the Beholder' is accepting donations of Tritium ;)
 

Sir.Tj

The Moderator who shall not be Blamed....
Volunteer Moderator
Sir.Tj
It really is a fantastic community, one I've been proud to be a small part of for quite a while.

There are some amazing, generous, kind and occasionally funny people here.

I've made life long friends and hope to be a part of it for a while yet.

None of the above is my fault by the way and I blame @Philip Coutts
 

Dack Janiels

Dack Janiels
Legoshi Brown said:
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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I think the Elite community is basically the same as every other "this community is so nice". Say things that they like and you are good. But boy mention pvp or that the game has flaws and they want to excommunicate you

also very nice messages from community too:

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Vedmo

Vedmo
Dack Janiels said:
I think the Elite community is basically the same as every other "this community is so nice". Say things that they like and you are good. But boy mention pvp or that the game has flaws and they want to excommunicate you

also very nice messages from community too:

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That would honestly make my day if someone went off on me like that, but it might not be that great later if all of those people started dying and I realized I had a chance to learn some functioning magical curses from someone and blew it.
 

EdzUp

EdzUp
Dack Janiels said:
I think the Elite community is basically the same as every other "this community is so nice". Say things that they like and you are good. But boy mention pvp or that the game has flaws and they want to excommunicate you

also very nice messages from community too:

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Thats it boys get him he mention the "thing that shall not be named".

As for the quote from the game those are waaaaay OTT I think they are definitely in need of serious anger management classes 🤔
 
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