I think the arguments for fans of both games get silly. It's like a lion making fun of a hyena for smelling of zebra carcass. I don't have great hope for Elite, just looking at that hideous cockpit that looks like a hologram buffet and the way the fps weapons look. I think it is an attempt to try to keep up a small bit with SC's set of features. Elite won't catch up. They do not have the money for it. SC strategically invested into underlying engine code that makes all that seamless world possible. Elite appears to want to quickly hack some of that into their game with what appears, bad results. However other space games lighting a fire under CIG's tush is good because it chips away at the "we first have to build the tools" and "it will take super long but trust us it will be awesome" stalling. SC is still the best game of its type, however the lack of competition is what caused all these delays.