After 2 weeks of playing this game and logging about 100h in, I find it absolutely boring now. At first I was pumped about the combat, so I bought my first eagle but its very straightforward, circle the enemy till you line up with him. Combat kinda sucks when the modules have so little info on them as well.. Then I bought a cobra and things became a bit more fun, I was participating in high/low int. zones. Cool? I just made 3000CR for destroying a Master Anaconda ha! Then, looked up some players here on the forums and their achievements CR wise, since I was interested in getting the most expensive ships and kitting them out proper. I see players with 400BCR, wondered how that was so, so I sold all my ships and bought a type-6, started doing trading, made 25m, bought a type 7, made 100m, bought a type 9, made 800m and bought an anaconda. made some more money after that, and now its just boring, no more content.
If you want to complete this game, just go and trade.
its basically a money pool, since killing a Cobra with a wanted status and a bounty of 1k CR gets old and boring.
I'll probably play this game just because its kinda fun to see all the high numbers, and its fun to have most ships, but till they get the balancing between Bounty/Exploration/Trading done right, there is only 1 way to go in terms of credits.
They also need a lasting content and some more diversity. Killing elite Anacondas is boring AF. What kind of Pirate Lord, goes out patrolling the sector when he has a 150-190k bounty on him? there should be fleets attached to him/her, or several other ships.