I know it's to stand out and look cooler in the loading screen, but I know that everybody was hoping we could fly through the galaxy.
At least being able to move around in the loading screen as your flying would be neat.
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For now, aesthetics/prestige is all there can be to a new ship. But the game gives you a new one eventually (as with almost everything in the game) so buying one never seemed worth it. Anyway, aesthetics are enough for me for now. Of course it would be cool to have space warfare/air strikes, but the ships we have right now are basically spaceship puddle jumpers. Not the kind of thing to fly into a war zone with.