Well I finally got some time this past week to really get into Elite Dangerous, now that it has stabilized somewhat ("matchmaking" server errors not withstanding). As an old school C64 Elite addict from back in 1985, the first thing I wondered when my new CMDR spawned was "why am I at Trevithick Dock, and what happened to Lave?" Then I learned how to use the galaxy map and was relieved to find that Lave and all the familiar systems from the original Elite (Reorte, Zaonce, Tionisla, Diso, Leesti, etc.) are still there. Yay! Visiting those systems would be high on my agenda of course, but first I decided to make the sojourn to Sol - everyone must visit humanity's birthplace, right? And as an early backer, I had a shiny new Sol system permit just burning a hole in my pocket.
5 days, 4 ships, 3 fancy new badges (Scout, Mostly Penniless and Mostly Harmless) and some 150+ lightyears later, I finally reached beloved Lave. How nostalgic it was to see that station again after 30 years! And seeing it in all the glory of modern graphics really gave me a Marty McFly moment (very appropriate, this being the 30 year anniversary of the first Back to the Future movie
). I thought I'd share a bit of that with the folks here, especially those who may have never seen Lave in the original Elite game. Here are screenshots of then and now (the "then" shot is courtesy of the VICE C64 emulator, since my Commodore 64 is long gone):
Pretty nice example of what a billion-fold increase in computing power looks like (thank you, Moore's Law)!
Interestingly, I saw a lot of human players in Lave, more than any other system I've visited except for Sol. Presumably they are like me, players from the old '80s Elite seeking home. In retrospect, I think it was a nice decision by FD not to start all players in Lave like before. This way, it remains as kind of a special place for us veterans to go, and for the newbies to discover on their own...
Cheers!
CMDR Boot Knocka
5 days, 4 ships, 3 fancy new badges (Scout, Mostly Penniless and Mostly Harmless) and some 150+ lightyears later, I finally reached beloved Lave. How nostalgic it was to see that station again after 30 years! And seeing it in all the glory of modern graphics really gave me a Marty McFly moment (very appropriate, this being the 30 year anniversary of the first Back to the Future movie
). I thought I'd share a bit of that with the folks here, especially those who may have never seen Lave in the original Elite game. Here are screenshots of then and now (the "then" shot is courtesy of the VICE C64 emulator, since my Commodore 64 is long gone):Pretty nice example of what a billion-fold increase in computing power looks like (thank you, Moore's Law)!
Interestingly, I saw a lot of human players in Lave, more than any other system I've visited except for Sol. Presumably they are like me, players from the old '80s Elite seeking home. In retrospect, I think it was a nice decision by FD not to start all players in Lave like before. This way, it remains as kind of a special place for us veterans to go, and for the newbies to discover on their own...
Cheers!
CMDR Boot Knocka
