Frontier: What were the hardest and easiest things about reaching Triple Elite?



OnePercent: Hands down to Exploration ranks. At the beginning of Elite: Dangerous v1.0, Exploration was probably the second lowest (after mining) income source In regards to time invested and profit made. But during those times it wasn't about the profits; it was about exploring the unknown and seeing things others haven't.



I saw the galactic centre first hand and explored a couple of crazy systems, one of them had this central blue hypergiant and M,K and G stars all orbiting it, and another system had two black holes orbiting each other, a neutron star and an Earthlike world all in the SAME system.



I really used my passion for exploration to drive my progress to an Elite rank. If there was one low point it would have been during my early days when I accidentally self destructed my eagle. In super cruise. After 150 detailed system scans...



Progressing my combat ranks was easier. I had already [learned to fly] while exploring, so I was able to do 600 kills/day right from the start of chasing Combat Elite, and from that I calculated when I'd get my Elite wings.



Frontier: Would you do it again?



OnePercent: I think this question should be directed towards my family. "Would you put up with him doing this again?” And the response would probably be "NO."



Frontier: What do you play on?



OnePercent: Self made PC, keyboard, mouse and an X52 Pro HOTAS from Saitek. Office chair, Desk, Headphones and single 1080p Monitor. You can see my wear and tear image on my Joystick here after two and a bit months of use.