Glad to see you're doing good bro.
Heres just some information on Elite Dangerous if you don't know much about it. If you love space sims you should buy this. I didn't like or play space sims until i played this.
Jeeze what can you do. A lot. Explore the universe, trade commodities, a virtually endless list... You work for it some you don.t You can buy from or sell at certain systems in the universe and other places far away will pay generously or closer they might too.
You can mine, their is also trading, delivering, courier or smuggling. Their is a black market for illegal good imports and exports. Their is assassination missions requiring combat for wanted people who have bounties on their head.
The powerplay element is huge and complex and each power has a lore and history to it. What they are trying to achieve is control and power of systems, Expanding, fortifying, expansion and control and exploitation of systems.
In power play if you join a power you will have enemies. I joined an Empire. You can choose to undermine or deliver deeds and political prisoners. You can go to enemy systems and undermine it to try take control. Each ship you take out is 30 points which is 30 merits.
Their are empire ranks you can achieve. Rank 1 - rank 5. How many merits you keep up by the end of each power play cycle every thurs, is tallied up your rank and you awarded bonuses with different powers these are different. In some powers you will get 5% profits on bounties, or 5% profits when trading in your powers controlled or exploited systems.
Rank 4 is where i keep up 1500 merits a week and maintain a salary of 5,000,000. The other ways are through delivering deeds or trade agreements and stuff like that which give you less than 30 points. Maybe delivering deeds for your power will give you 25 merits.
Their are a zillion minor factions or factions. I don't even understand the whole lore around the power play. You have a Commander rank, a combat rank, a trade rank, an explorer rank, an imperial rank which is if your allied to empire or federation rank is like policing or navy rank ships. You need to do missions that earn you imperial or federation to be able to buy the federation or imperial ships.
Soon we will be getting Horizons where their will be planets you can land on where there will be engineers that will bring more customization to weapons and mods for weapons. At the moment we can't tweak or modify individually fitted parts on our ship. But we will be able to soon. Their are numerous sites dedicated Elite dangerous. You can even get famous, by taking part in the Fuel rats. If your stranded out in space and need rescuing cause run out of fuel. They have guys that will come out and rescue you.
Their will soon be huge ships which can carry smaller combat or scout ships. Their will be multi-crews where you all have a thing to do on the ship. You can have land rovers to explore worlds you land on. This Horizons expansion is only on PC but is coming to xbox soon.
Their are groups of guys like a minor faction that goes after pirates, real Commander pirates who like picking on anyone anywhere and killing people, you can call them to put a bounty on them, they are PBSF i think. Their are loads of others too. Just check out Inara elite dangerous, google it. Their is even radio stations.
SO yeah their is so much to do. I think you would love the game. The goal is working your way up ranks to buy better ships so your more a boss than before like a king lol, also so you can explore worlds and you just might be the first to discovery a distant world. You can hand in that information of discovery and earn money for it. Plus that planet will have your name on it that you discovered it. But most systems in the near bubble of space where haven been discovered. But thousands and maybe millions haven't Thats why traveling to outer reaches of the milky way galaxy is a feat to accomplish and some never make it back.