Kind of funny reading the comment. People keep wrongfully insisting Elite has been in development longer than it has, and "correcting" those who say otherwise.
Yeah it gets annoying at times. Reality Distortion Field at its best.
For the next release of Elite, players will enjoys a new type of station that is significantly larger than the ones already in the game. In the words of Braben, the new stations are "more flamboyant and higher tech."
By this time, I was already more impressed by and interested in the game. But that feeling paled in comparison to playing on an Oculus Rift. Talk about an immersive experience!