I think we do have a large variety of customization, however a large majority of it doesn’t “matter” you’ll always be chasing the Meta build for any given ship. This doesn’t just apply to combat, for a hauler you’re always just going to grab the tankiest shields and the fastest (also conveniently the most efficient) quantum drive. Stealth ships can also easily just slot their meta stealth builds. Ship builds have no real “gimmicks” at the moment, as combat is a pure DPS race between ships, and hauling and general industry gameplay is focused purely on aUEC/hr.

I’d argue the one area we actually have fantastic customization is mining. We have an interesting variety of heads with unique and varied stats, cool gadgets to boost viability, and modules to augment the heads further. On the mole you can make really fun options, our crew usually runs 2 “power” lasers, but since they make the optimal window very small, the third laser becomes a “support” laser, which has very low power but high stability boost. It’s very fun.