Yea, I couldn't help but fork over the money for the elite-version either.... I've managed to have a ton of fun with GC2, wasted a TON of time too 
Honestly, I think GC3 is going to be eptic, guess we'll wait and see.... Still, doing the math, I think if I were to buy the base game and all expansions (at least 2 or 3) on release day at full price, the elite version might be cheaper in the long run. Wondering if we'll get some other bonus stuff too.... maybe I'm just hoping.
In any case, I think money well spent.
Still having trouble coming up with the name for a star
is some sort of system, preventing duplicates going to be in place? Although I can see it now:
"epic star name" is already taken, perhaps you'd like to use: "epic star name 74623", "epiz starz namz" or "star name epic"