Newcomer / Intro It's been 25 years and I can still smell the fresh paint

Locruid

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Back in 1994, I was visting a friend and he was playing a game that absolutely hooked me known as Frontiers: Elite 2. That night I went home and ordered an Amiga 600 just to play the game. When everything arrived, I was ADDICTED. I literally played from the time I woke up at 6am ish until 2-3am at night. This went on for weeks. ALL I did was play Frontier, work, eat, sleep. Ashamed to admit everything else became secondary (showers, friends, girlfriend, dog).

Now here I am 25 years later and although the game has been out for 4-5 years, I just recently learned about it. So here I am again playing. Transporting passengers, running illegal goods, collecting bounties. But this time Im not near as addcited lol. Making sure I play with my dogs, spend time with the wife (she was the girlfriend back then, I LOVE this woman) but also wanting to play to my fullest potential.

Just wanted to stop in and say thanks, for bringing back one of the most addicting games I EVER played. Just ordered a HOTAS joystick so I can fine tune my adventures :D
 

Krieger

Krieger
Welcome back to the Elite Galaxy commander!

As a fellow oldtimer player I must warn you: despite being a lot older I found the game just as addictive as in the past.

Below you find some useful links and don't hesitate to ask questions here in the forum.

In-game help is available in the form of menu links to the Pilot's Handbook and the Codex (right-hand cockpit panel 1st tab).
For a very good beginner's guide see: An in-depth beginner’s guide to Elite: Dangerous.
Tutorials covering all aspects of the game, many of them on video, are available from ED Tutorials.
There is a wealth of useful information available in these forums spread out over hundreds of threads. Thanks to commander @Alec Turner you can access all of that information and more via a single thread: Alec's best of the forum (and elsewhere) [v2].
Also check out the inara.cz and eddb.io websites with (almost) realtime info on practically everything in the game.
The coriolis.io and edsy.org websites let you design your ships before buying them.
And last but not least, the Elite Dangerous Wiki contains extensive information on nearly all aspects of the game.

o7
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
As someone who played the orignal '84 Elite on the old BBC micro and has been playing Elite: Dangerous for the last 5 years I'm actually quite envious of what lies ahead of you (don't be in a rush to do and get everything, savour the journey!), for me it's been the single greatest video game experience of my life thus far. You'll love the added immersion that having a HOTAS adds to that experience. The other thing I can recommend (unless you want to go full VR) is head tracking. There's a number of devices that do this (TrackIR is the one I have but there's also EDTracker and probably others too). Basically they allow you to freely look around your cockpit and add to the experience more than you might imagine.

o7 commander ... and if you get stuck on anything I think you'll find this community to be incredibly helpful on the whole (ignore the moaners!).
 

Locruid

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Alec Turner said:
As someone who played the orignal '84 Elite on the old BBC micro and has been playing Elite: Dangerous for the last 5 years I'm actually quite envious of what lies ahead of you (don't be in a rush to do and get everything, savour the journey!), for me it's been the single greatest video game experience of my life thus far. You'll love the added immersion that having a HOTAS adds to that experience. The other thing I can recommend (unless you want to go full VR) is head tracking. There's a number of devices that do this (TrackIR is the one I have but there's also EDTracker and probably others too). Basically they allow you to freely look around your cockpit and add to the experience more than you might imagine.

o7 commander ... and if you get stuck on anything I think you'll find this community to be incredibly helpful on the whole (ignore the moaners!).
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I remember the old Elite but it didnt pull me like Frontiers did. I have a VR for the playstation and I play Bridge Crew and No Man's sky on it, but not entirely sure I want to invest more money into another VR system. Ill check into TrackIR though sounds intriging.

Thanks everyone for the advice and guide, reading/watching now
 

Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
With the original Elite, resources (memory, processor etc.) were limited. While it was a groundbreaking, original and fantastic game, a lot of it went on inside ones head.

It sparked the imagination.

I played it enough to get Thargoid blisters, a thousand yard stare and the hope that by the year 2000, I'd have my own, real-life Sidewinder.
 
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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Frillop Freyraum said:
This happened to me in 1986 already with the original Elite on C64 that I bought second hand from a friend together with a shoebox full of floppy discs (no manuals and of course - no internet back in the days). I had to figure out everything in this game including all key bindings! Even though there's not much to do in the original version, I was so hooked that I played it for more than 4 years. So excessively, that I sometimes left my apartment and got heavy nausea cause I couldn't stand this silly up and down orientation of RL anymore. And here I am: already 7 years and 10200 hours in the game again. Looks like I'm going to take this game into the grave... 😁
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Floppy discs? You were lucky... my first foray into Elite was on cassette tape (he said in his best "4 Yorkshiremen" accent).
 

Esteban

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So many familiar stories. I also started playing on my C-128, played Frontier Elite II, left for a lifetime, rediscovered ED in 2019.

Pretty cool, CMDRs...
 
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