I wish they were a little clearer in what “stage” this game is in. I’ve had a couple of people tell me this really feels like its alpha testing a game.

Some of the massive time gates there are in game feels like stalling for time to get features out. There no way as a f2p or budget player that I’ll wait 3 months to get a second planet. I wish they would have gone more with a colonize skill and allowed your to get another planet in first week but taking much longer till you unlock what appears to be no cap on how many planets you can even have.

It’s definitely missing that bite to keep players around long term. Part of me wonders if the RPG element listed on their roadmap has such answers. NPCS for players to hunt for extra resources or something along those lines. This is something a game like this would do in the first hours of showing the player around. With how high of a level you need just for the shipyard to explore I hate to think how many weeks it be for a combat ship.