Try deleting the .wine prefix in your home folder and starting with a fresh prefix withWINEPREFIX=~/.wine winecfg
I assume your using latest versions of wine/winetricks? If not older versions can cause issues when installing .Net.
I'd noticed that one of your posts mentioned that the game works in proton so I'm going to try that.
elite is already installed in steam in linux - ( updating atm ) how do I use winetricks to install dotnet and vcrun2015
That is..w hat is the prefix I should feed to winetricks to make it play ball?
And how do I then run the game?