Sinked about 70 hours in this game, here's what I can offer:

Pro:
- An immersive Storyline (if not prepared and you already delved too far into the game, it will contain challenges)
- Great variants of ships of different stats.
- A pretty nice mod support
- An ever-expanding storyline, map from the community itself

Con:
- A little spacey music would be nice, as well as a battle theme if possible if encountering pirates, music could variant from different hostile enemies.

Shield Beetle is awesome btw. A fleet of those and you can make a profit selling some of the end game ship inventories :)