a

[Tydrolorath]

a

[klobber]

in short:

find friends,

learn the game mechanics,

be creative,

fight enemies if they should come for your stuff,

........

 

[vollmond]

Its a sandbox, you will need to create your goals OR find a group and follow the group's goals. 

But you stil can aim for

-PVP (still something rare but people dont need)
- Crafting (its goood..)
-Gathering (mining is the real endgame)
-Exploring (get your ship on space!)
-Social (you can do real good things with voxelmancing)
-Shipbuilding (you weill crash but you will like it)
-Trading (get things cheap from A and sel to Be..with space...and youi will crash)

I mean...you will crash your first ship but its good. And remember: you cant brake from 10k km/h in 10s. 

[Police]

With the current state of the game, i'd make the strong suggestion you grind out farming ore and selling it, get 20-300 industry going to generate a little revenue and along the way play with design editor for ship/base. Along the way, you will get an idea for something, and once your kids disown you and your wife leaves, everything will be as it should.

[Massacher]

There is no goal. You can build whatever you want. I think the real fun will be epic space battles and control for territories.

[vorpalbunneh]

I just started and I've already found a great goal:  To get out of the tutorial without crashing.