I've been messing around with it some more and it is a pretty good game. More options for customizing the controls would be good (inverting mouse would be nice). But on the whole it is a good game. I got tired of the storyline in the single player game so went on-line to play on some peoples servers and just sort of ran trade goods between systems and have aquired a lot of cash and had fun avoiding pirates in my freighter.

I've been playing on the "Elite" server (30 players low ping and not much lag even with a full 30 players on). My character name on that server is Dobbs.

Freelancer is what Earth and Beyond should have been. If you are looking for an MMORPG fix and don't want to commit to one give a try at Freelancer. Hopefuly they will fix the control options in a patch.