It would have been a more enjoyable experience if they dropped all the survival aspects and just let you discover planets on foot along with the system jumping. Either way, the flight was super boring as you had very little control over your craft.I used a GameFly trial to finally give the game a go. I play (and love) a ton of those "drop in environment, survive) games. It was the worst I've ever played.
Simply fix would have been to use the starting planet as a 10 minute tutorial on basic mechanics, get you into space, and go from there. Even that would have been a huge upgrade. I wonder how many people just said fuck it like 30 minutes in.
Game just made me miss Elite Dangerous.