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Elite: Dangerous is a space combat, exploration, and trading simulation game, featuring online-only single player and MMO-esque multiplayer. You are free to make your own choices, allowing you to become a trader, bounty hunter, or even a space pirate that preys on other space fleets.
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Pros
Pro Amazing level of detail
This game offers incredible simulation depth in every aspect. Flying, fights or battles in space - you can manually fly your spacecraft. Trading - a full in depth market simulation. Exploration - fly your spacecraft into the outer layers of space. There is somthing in it for almost every type of player.
Pro Very realistic representation of space & star systems
Elite Dangerous uses publicly available real world star maps that we have of the Milky Way consisting of 150,000 star systems. Although in the current beta, full access to the entire galaxy is limited, in the final game, you will be able to visit any of the 400 billion stars in our galaxy on a 1:1 scale. Stars that we do know of are properly mapped in place and are of the correct type given the information we have about them. Stars we haven't collected data on are procedurally generated which allows you to explore any of the 400 billion of them.
Star systems are intelligently simulated using the "Star Forge", a generator that simulates the creation of a star system forming from its nebular cloud to determine what celestial bodies appear and what orbits they have. This feature leads to many varied and unique star systems possibly with planets that can co-orbit around each other, or with binary star systems, and infinitely more possibilities.