I've been playing the game for a week, it seems there's nothing to do except farm.
Either by fighting random wanted enemies or by trading:
Trade rout: Trade > earn enough to upgrade > buy a ship with more storage > repeat
Fight rout: kill wanted targets > upgrade modules / ship > kill wanted targets > repeat
There's really no sense of progress except farming money.
There's no real exploration, nothing new to do...
money is of course the central measure but its a copy of our solar system
with a good game (as sir bruce would say) built around it. Give it some
time. You get out what you put in .
A friend of mine is a white van man and he loves being a white van man
in space. He is now frustrated that his real van does not have railguns and
beam lasers.
Most of this is subjective but to your point theres no real exploration go
out and look at the sky tonight when its clear and pick a star. Go
google the night sky above you and find out what its called .... now
plot a course there.
You could visit some vampire stars, red dwarfs, pulsars, black holes,
or indeed our home, Sol (but you need to work a few things to get a permit
unless you were a backer/alpha/beta joiner).
Join a group, yes multiplayer aint perfect at the moment but it some
good fun thugging around in SC looking for trouble or watching someones 6
when they're hauling crap into hostile space.
What do you want out of a game like this ? Its a copy of where we live so its
not about depth being missing its got that in bucketloads. Maybe the prblem is
its too deep/complex for some.
I read a lot of these threads and I know this is not for everyone but what would
be the top 3 things you would do with it to specifically make you like it in
the areas of depth, exploration and progress. I know the devs read these forums
and good ideas always go down well.