>Anybody else around here happen to be playing this game?

I have been. They keep making disasterous balance and income decisions, and their faction warfare mechanic was broken before Powerplay came out, and even more broken now.

Space combat has become unfun; it's all about who has more shield boosters and shield cells, and that is about it.

Exploration as a profession doesn't have a lot of value to it, and the exploration-focused faction has no actual rewards for doing exploration.

But the experience of flying in space is so good that it's fun to just play Euro Space Truck Simulator 2015 for an hour. I don't know. *sigh*