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Pros
Pro You can do anything
You can trade, mine, be a Bounty Hunter, do militaristic jbs... it's an amazing open world game. There are lots of ships to choose from with your own custom loadout. You can upgrade anything on your ship from the type of guns to your shields and generators. You can play the game over and over, there are thousands of ways to play the game and thousands of different strategies to go with it.
Pro No advertisements
None, nada, zilch. Play it forever with no pop ups or interruptions.
Pro Enjoyable and overall sense of achievement
Especially when you build up your little one man army into a 50 ship armada, it takes time.
Cons
Con In-app purchases
The bright side is the DLC is fairly cheap. About $1 to $2 for each of the 3 DLCs currently out.
Con There seems to be no more updates
There were no more updates after the UI reworks.