Had a great session last night that kept me up until nearly 3AM and now I am dog tired at work. Thanks, Frontier!
While the wife was away at night school I had been racking up some fat credits doing mining. Good time, not bad, became a rich man.
Wife gets home, we get pizza and beer and then she turns in early. Nice! More Elite.
This time I'm just doing whatever my hear contents. See a pirate, kill it; see a great price on a commodity snag it up and deliver; connecting system has undiscovered stuff in it, go exploring; find some planetary rings, mine em....seriously just all over the place having lots of fun....then
Then, my wife wakes up (perhaps cursing at a sidewinder that was out turning my cobra is not the quietest of things). At this point, I'm thinking, darn we gotta watch TV now (my PC is my TV--dual monitor set up with a 42inch plasma and a 23inch LCD).
BUT NO! She wants to see the game I've put so much time in to. SCORE!
So I keep doing what I was doing, kindly explaining all the things I was accomplishing along the way.
Her response: "There is a lot going on here!"
3 hours later: "I think I'm going to start dreaming about you playing Elite"
Heck yeah! I asked her if she really enjoyed her time watching and she genuinely liked it. She made a pretty snappy co-pilot too. Reminding me to boost power to shields when a Cobra was reverse thrusting and firing on me. She got to see a lot of really harrowing moments...being pirated and pummeled down to 5% hull (she got to see the canopy burst, love that)...she saw me taking on a heavily modified Asp that took forever to knock down and offering a huge bounty and she saw me sneak into a station with silent running while Wanted (pretty crazy that one too...a fat lakon was in the letter box and I ended up spinning into the station but intact.
Congrats FDEV, you've made someone who only played The Sims get really into a space flight. If you release an expansion for it, I'm sure she would love to personalize the ship interior...I could do with some flowers
While the wife was away at night school I had been racking up some fat credits doing mining. Good time, not bad, became a rich man.
Wife gets home, we get pizza and beer and then she turns in early. Nice! More Elite.
This time I'm just doing whatever my hear contents. See a pirate, kill it; see a great price on a commodity snag it up and deliver; connecting system has undiscovered stuff in it, go exploring; find some planetary rings, mine em....seriously just all over the place having lots of fun....then
Then, my wife wakes up (perhaps cursing at a sidewinder that was out turning my cobra is not the quietest of things). At this point, I'm thinking, darn we gotta watch TV now (my PC is my TV--dual monitor set up with a 42inch plasma and a 23inch LCD).
BUT NO! She wants to see the game I've put so much time in to. SCORE!
So I keep doing what I was doing, kindly explaining all the things I was accomplishing along the way.
Her response: "There is a lot going on here!"
3 hours later: "I think I'm going to start dreaming about you playing Elite"
Heck yeah! I asked her if she really enjoyed her time watching and she genuinely liked it. She made a pretty snappy co-pilot too. Reminding me to boost power to shields when a Cobra was reverse thrusting and firing on me. She got to see a lot of really harrowing moments...being pirated and pummeled down to 5% hull (she got to see the canopy burst, love that)...she saw me taking on a heavily modified Asp that took forever to knock down and offering a huge bounty and she saw me sneak into a station with silent running while Wanted (pretty crazy that one too...a fat lakon was in the letter box and I ended up spinning into the station but intact.
Congrats FDEV, you've made someone who only played The Sims get really into a space flight. If you release an expansion for it, I'm sure she would love to personalize the ship interior...I could do with some flowers
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