The game is great, but it seriously lacks a direction. It needs a real end goal that you just don't need to complete.
It would have been easy to do too. Just make the factions on the map more meaningful, and slowly encroach. Make us need to take out specific command points/ships/bases in the faction and as you do so, a boss ship could track you down. It would start too strong to defeat, but defeat more of the faction on the run and you weaken it to beat eventually.

That said, the game has insane self-imposed challenge potential, and with the diversity in the ways you can go through the game it is nice to just make new runs over and over.

The upcoming base building DLC is the last thing this game ever needed, as traversing the nodes on the map takes you far away from any specific location and there's no real point once you clear that area, so going back is boring.

Pros:
+Ship diversity.
+New runs can be vastly different.
+Quite a bit of weapons and armors to fine, though the values are pretty boring, it is nice you can tier up.
+Tons of potential for self-imposed challenges
+Difficult unlocks to really give you a goal if there ever was one for this game.
+INSANE levels of power in long term files if you put a lot of effort into finding and raising crew.
+Challenge runs under dire circumstances are possible the more you unlock.
+High quality for what the game is, definitely no regrets getting this. Just give it some time for you to get rolling.

Cons:
-No real end-game,
-Combat is kind of boring once you get any decent at it. Enemies can be a threat but it's very one-dimensional. The biggest danger is just overextending your power and getting swatted like a fly.
-Asteroid fields are a joke sadly. Super cool but the damage is too low to be interesting.
-Lack of diversity in nodes. There are some, but none are very interesting. Space should have more threats in the zones you end up in.

I definitely hope to see more games from this developer. Particularly I'd love to see their next project have some real combat depth. Skill expression is something I think they could do really well on a different project, but this one has kind of run its course for development. Whatever they do, I hope they stick with the idea of a good equipment system, just without the Relic function in this game.

have not played in a long time, and im so happy its still going, and with a new dlc on the way

it used to be a play your way kinda game,

and reminded me of alot of old games i used to play but more alive, and much much more

i honestly cant wait for the DLC, but can i wait to play it again entill then, i dont know, but im going to try..

CANT WAIT :)

good game