It's fun to chill and keep my tamagocchi alive while semi afk. And farm time.
It's also cool for RP- e.g. when we created and built up 46th we made Salt Lake our HQ and a home of the fleet, even the RP threads are "from there" - it's cool to have faction RP bases, space for RP commodities - gives you actual sense of ownership and faction identity rather than just sayin "ima on XYZ solar, trust me bro"
Drawback is siege system, and somehow ores and such- I never used PoBs for those lol