So I thought I'd give flying a ship in Star Citizen a go.
I couldn't get in my ship on the Crusader, so I had to reload the game. This involved the game actually crashing when I tried to exit it, and me turning the PC off and turning it on again because I couldn't alt-tab out or bring up task manager to shut the game down.
So on my second attempt, I got in my ship.
Somehow, I got it off the landing pad and flew away from the station.
I tried to set up the joystick, and despite there being an X52 profile, the joystick wouldn't work properly with the game. The pitch, yaw and roll was inverted nearly all the attempts at configuring I tried, and the throttle never once worked.
I flew back to the station using the keyboard (and not my fancy flight stick) and then could not manage to actually land on a landing pad, because the slightest touch with the station sent me spinning off in a random direction.
All this while a ships computer kept repeating stupid things that had nothing to do with what I was trying to do, or mentioning collisions which had no effect on me blowing up.
I eventually got stuck in the station somewhere. Well, I say "stuck", I could have reversed out of it, except my ship would not reverse.
Now, for the record, I am not a Star Citizen hater. I want to play it. I want to be patient. I know it's in constant development. But the thing is proving to be too dammed hard to do the simplest things.