Elite Dangerous (Getting Started Gameplay)
0Elite Dangerous is a space/spaceship simulator MMO and fourth installment in the legendary Elite series, the longest running space simulation series in history. It's developed and published by Frontier Developments with David Braben as the director. The first Windows PC version was launched on December 16, 2014 . New players start out with a Sidewinder MkI spaceship and a small sum of credits. They can blaze their own trail such as trade, pirate, bounty-hunt, mine, explore, salvage to fame and fortune. It is the first game in the series to feature online multiplayer in a vast 1:1 scale simulation of the Milky Way galaxy based on real scientific principles, current scientific data and theories. It's groundbreaking in that the galaxy is based on a lot of hard science with all sorts of star surveys that are fixed and merged to, for the first time in gaming history, compose a very consistent model of the Milky Way galaxy and it's rich enough to plot the night sky. Features included are very large : The vast 1:1 scale Milky Way galaxy , realistic astrophysics , evolving galaxy with dynamic society-economy and stories , more than 30 different and customizable ships , surface vehicles such as the Scarab to explore planets and moons , large space stations , etc...