I "played" SC on the weekend, it kind of went like this.
Get out of bed
Walk to shuttle, enjoy scenery.
Admire NPC's standing on benches or just frozen in time
Get on shuttle
Enjoy the ride, pretty fantastic view
Erm, Can't get off shuttle because station wouldn't load in for the port/hangar section, just a shuttle floating in space with tubes either side.
Go to next station, that loaded ok.
Get on another shuttle back to port/hangar area.
Erm, Can't get off shuttle.
I persisted at trying this for 1 hour, with the same results after many relogs and restarts.
Couldn't even get to my ship

I bought SC when kickstarter started, likewise with Elite.
I have had my moneys worth out of elite, for sure, but not out of SC (yet)
Sure, I complain, sure its a bug ridden mess right now, sure things are severely lacking and FD (not the dev's as such) are making a right mockery of their customer/community (imo) but... at least I can fly my virtual space ship with some satisfaction and in space.. most things work as expected.
SC on the other hand... judgement is reserved until its out of alpha...hahahha will it ever be, they have such a good thing going for them with this never ending development!