Our TLDR:
Catto and I started together in May this year.
It took a while to get accustomed to Discovery's nature and workings to be able to "play the game".
Slowly understanding economics, systems such as mining, trading, the base line of pvp and most and foremost the general rule-set of the server.
It was a short and quick journey of quickly getting into player owned bases, seeing how those work and the long "rat-tail" they have behind them in terms of work upkeep and similar.
After investing multiple hundreds of millions of credits into at the end 3 bases. Grinding Trading, mining, trying to get people to work and play with us it did feel heavy on our minds.
Catto himself being the social person, getting into talks all around the board, me staying behind him, helping with every task I could while having his back.
Our Feedback and Impressions to the game in the end is:
It's too much of a grind. Trading takes as much time as being an irl delivery driver to attain wealth in a way to be able to properly take part in player transactions.
The PVP level of those who play this game for decades are too high for those who want to try to fight.
Roleplay is "offloaded" to the forum mostly which on average contains fandom level writing of showing off who has the coolest OC.
Discovery is a PVP server, /1 /2 roleplay is encouraged.
This is our reason to quit the game. Maybe we progressed to fast, essentially getting tired of speedrunning all there is. Maybe we just weren't the right fit.