The question is why have they not added more things to these planets? I have no idea how many there was as I only played on launch but from the planets I have seen they are bare. Full of surface mining rocks but where is the ambition for the game?
All that space and they could have added roaming npc's, robots to kill to harvest parts and more buildings to visit other than market, this list could go on. For me the game is similar to Atlas, played that at launch many years ago and had the potential to be a great pirate game then mistakes were made within dev team and everyone left the game, not many play it these days.
If the game was free to play I don't think many would criticise so much as you're not paying for it along the way but to pay subscription at £10.49, quite a lot higher than other popular MMO's it is just not worth it for me at this time. I cross my fingers though and hope they pull something out of the bag and turn it around, they could have a lot more players in the game if it was going in the right direction.