My biggest gripe with this game is that progression is too easy and there isn't much to work towards. There should be much more defined progression stages in the game where each stage of progression feels like a big difference in what you can craft and how your gear feels to use. POIs give you good gear too early, crafting has too little depth and you get to use blueprints too early on. Most POIs should scale to your level and have gear that isn't far above and beyond what gear you have currently. Getting high tier loot left and right from POIs very early on ruins progression a lot. After you reach the last stage of progression (through crafting) there should be an expansive and intriguing endgame with difficult POIs that require the best gear you can craft. Make these POIs drop high end gear at low drop rates to add repeatable content with the incentive of better loot. Crafting should have more of a progression system and early crafting should take less time but require more manual steps. Add ore grinders, ingot smelters, a crafting station solely for making components, weapon/tool crafting stations etc. with conveyor belts/pipes/tubes connecting them to transfer items between each other. Add anvils and hammers to manually make plates early on. Blueprints are way too easy to make and use, there should be blueprint stations at varying tiers that require materials from different planets before you can use blueprints. It would incentivize people to build their own ships, scavenge more ships lying around and make people work for blueprints beyond just having the raw materials. These 3 things are the biggest things I think need changes. There's plenty more to add like new weapons, melee, procedurally generated fauna/flora etc. But they're a lot less important than the above 3 things.
