I started playing this after it came out of beta..

Was a top 10 ranked player in the no1 ranked alliance.

Played for around a week before the grind became too much. To mine minerals for upgrades leaving your ship on a resource means you are open to attack from pretty much any other player around.

Plus the forced scarcity of these minerals means you are constantly fighting for them.

Attacking other starbases at similar levels to you is just about impossible if they are online, simply repair their ships and outwait you,this lead to a ton of seal clubbing on the server.

Plus the obvious usual micro transactions, packs costing hundreds of dollars and the scarcity of minerals meant that progress became nigh impossible at a certain level.

Game was also incredibly buggy.

It was a few months back I stopped playing so things may have changed, can't say I really enjoyed the game enough to warrant giving it another go though.