This game is trying to be everything, tactical combat, trade, travel, exploration, etc, and not really doing any of them well. The absolute worst aspect is travel. Literally spending 15+ minutes just staring at the screen DOING NOTHING while your ship slooooooowly makes it to another star system. What's in that system? Who knows, you have to slooooowly scan each and every planet to reveal anything. This is also going on for quest objectives that you do know where they are as well. Ground missions are also long, drawn out slogs through mostly empty locations. Although it appears on the surface to be a tactical combat game, rest assured you can just stand there and slug it out with enemy's, it makes little difference. It's no deeper than the side view combat of a game like Darkest Dungeon, just with more mouse clicks to accomplish anything. I think the developers are going for an epic scale, but there has to be something filling that epic space for it to be interesting, otherwise it's just...space. And being annoyed the whole time by the interface and the lackluster combat system just doesn't make it any better.
