Enjoy and have fun ! I ' m in an empty gym , it ' s glorious ! <| sep |> But it is an online game ? I fail to see your point . Wheter you are setting up your own goals for yourself or following the ones the devs set up for you doesn ' t make any difference in practice . You ' re going to have to grind currency to achieve your goals . You want that specific ship ? Grind currency . You want to own factories ? Grind currency . You want that fancy , rare weapon ? Grind currency . You want to do some large scale pvepvp ? Grind currency . The fact that you think there ' s no levels because the devs say so is a bit short sighted IMO . There ' s no levels sure but new ships unlock new types of gameplay . No matter what the gating is , gating is gating , period . SC isn ' t that very special game on that matter . Even if it ' s not hard gating like you cant enter this zone because you ' re not lvl 8000 , it ' s going to be soft gating as in get rekt if you enter this zone alone or with a couple of friends in auroras . What are you gonna do against a Vanduul carrier ? Let ' s be realistic , SC is just going to have these good old MMO mechanics , including content gating and progression , however the packaging looks much better .