Slow, slow slow, money sink, money, pay to play, deliberately hobbled to get you to spend money to the point of absurdity. Its beautiful, but also buggy, missions are poorly worded and frustrating. If you have nothing but time, enjoy playing with people who've been playing far longer so are capable of wiping you even in similar ships they have more shields, dps etc. After a full 6 weeks of daily play I am regularly frustrated by things i cannot yet do without a long waits. It totally feels like you pay them to logout for a month while your skills build. If I wanted another full time job i'd get one and get paid instead of paying someone else for something that is mind numbingly repetitive and requiring a massive learning curve. Half the game is inaccessible as alpha which isn't terrible as you'd pay for most games monthly, but even on an omega account which you pay monthly for its is a horrible horrible grind meant to make you spend real money on skill injectors and new ships to even get ANY real enjoyment.
This game has a lot of developer and corporate simps as they've made the decade plus theve spent wasting their time here on earth to be able use billion dollar ships to blow up noobies and brag a part of their identity. To each his own I guess.