Threateningly Complex
However, the lack of any sort of in depth tutorial, or proper aids just make this painstakingly difficult to get into. You really have to work at this game just to be able to play it at a basic level. Some may call this skill, but personally I feel that a game should be relatively easily accessible, rather than just dump you in and let you figure things out for yourself.
Thats another problem with this game. It lacks any sort of direction. The game lets you loose in the galaxy and tells you nothing about it. The trading system is even really poor, as you're not told how to trade effectively or anything of the sort.
Also, there's far too much just flying about in endless space waiting for something to happen. You can accelerate time, but you still end up sitting there for a couple of minutes waiting to reach your pre-programmed destination, which upon reaching you will interact with for 10 seconds, then program another destination and wait for a few minutes until you reach it. Basically this game is just one big loading screen.
I just felt like I really missed the point of it, and maybe thats why I don't like it. Obviously there are people out there who like it (gamespot readers have given it an average score of 8.1 after all) but I didn't get it at all.