Pretty graphics, but boring gameplay. Bring a good book to read while playing.
After several trips like this, you buy a bigger ship, which you can then outfit with twice the mining lasers. Yay....zzzzz.
Sadly, combat isn't much more exciting. You target an enemy ship, and attack, at which point you automatically fly around one another while your weapons automatically discharge periodically at each other. Eventually someone's shields will fail and someone explodes. Zzzz. There are different kinds of weapons, and things like missiles, EMP, shield boosters and so on, but it's just not very fun watching.
In the end, there's just too much downtime in this game for me to find it enjoyable. It feels like it mostly plays itself, with some occasional interaction required as you select the next destination, target, or whatever. It's certainly pretty to watch, but not enough that I'd pay a monthly fee for it.