I remember Disco community had a fleet there and played together, but as I seen, that pretty much died out. I started playing it again recently, and I'd love to see some familiar faces there.
Also, if anyone want to try it out, just bug me and I'l give you few tips about the game & some stuff to give you a head-start.
You can always start a new char. Or push it for the perfect build, or go for all of the accolades, exploring, collecting cool stuff, unlocking new ships, anything! Well, it depends from person to person, but I'm far from getting bored of it.
The grind system is much better than it used to be, now within 2-3 weeks you can max out your character, get a decent equipment and ship to do anything you want. Of course, if you want every piece of your equipment to be perfect, if you want that one ship that costs billion credits or something like that, yeah, it'l take few months worth of grind.
Yeah, random encounters, mission and player-scripted missions are everywhere around the map, so you have tons of stuff to do wherever you go. Exploration is far from Disco type of exploration; all systems are shown on galaxy map and everything is mapped out from the start.