The good stuff: It's continuously being worked on. Cool new features are added all the time, both in and out of fairly-priced DLC. Performance has improved a lot over the years. Still has a long way to go in multiplayer. See "bad stuff" for that. However, at its most pure; the building of ships and bases, this game has a lot of value and a dearth of variety for someone wanting to just let their creativity out, either building alone or with some friends in a small private server.

Bad stuff: The netcode is junk, and the game is archaic in that it is mostly single-core. If you rent the most powerful server hardware in the world the max you will get is 30 people on a server. And each player will still be limited to building... a thimble. Needless to say, multiplayer is not this game's strength. You might think movie making had more of a future, given that Keen recently added a powerful in-game tool for directing movies. Weeeell, no. There is still only the 1 dumb character model with the backpack, and there is no way you can make an interesting movie with just that. What kind of sci-fi doesn't need characters in marine uniforms, lab suits, desert garb etc? So there is all this power in the movie tool and nothing to make with it. But I'm making movie props until the day they get some new character models I can actually use. It's annoying though, they did add some *SKINS* and seemed like they thought they were responding to just this request once in the past... Either they are really bad at English or willfully being spiteful.

Anyway. To sum up: a good small-scale game for the creative, but will quickly show you its limitations if you try to go too far beyond that.

The good stuff: It's continuously being worked on. Cool new features are added all the time, both in and out of fairly-priced DLC. Performance has improved a lot over the years. Still has a long way to go in multiplayer. See "bad stuff" for that. However, at its most pure; the building of ships and bases, this game has a lot of value and a dearth of variety for someone wanting to just let their creativity out, either building alone or with some friends in a small private server. Bad stuff: The netcode is junk, and the game is archaic in that it is mostly single-core. If you rent the most powerful server hardware in the world the max you will get is 30 people on a server. And each player will still be limited to building... a thimble. Needless to say, multiplayer is not this game's strength. You might think movie making had more of a future, given that Keen recently added a powerful in-game tool for directing movies. Weeeell, no. There is still only the 1 dumb character model with the backpack, and there is no way you can make an interesting movie with just that. What kind of sci-fi doesn't need characters in marine uniforms, lab suits, desert garb etc? So there is all this power in the movie tool and nothing to make with it. But I'm making movie props until the day they get some new character models I can actually use. It's annoying though, they did add some *SKINS* and seemed like they thought they were responding to just this request once in the past... Either they are really bad at English or willfully being spiteful. Anyway. To sum up: a good small-scale game for the creative, but will quickly show you its limitations if you try to go too far beyond that.