Oh, Elite. How I love you, how I hate you, and how I'm a little disappointed by you.

TL;DR game's been out for 6 years, still missing features promised in the fundraising campaign, and only one activity is worth doing.

Elite: Dangerous offers you a 1:1 scale of the Milky Way and a ton of activities to do around it. Dogfighting, piracy, powerplay (faction wars), bounty hunting, mining, trading, exploration, engineering... the list goes on. It's pretty fun solo, and even more so with friends. The galaxy is shared among all players, and in fact, there's an open play gamemode where you can encounter other players at random.

But there's several issues with all of this. No one who wants to make money plays open, because gankers love ruining fun. But that means pirating is off the table, since there's no one carrying goodies around.
PvP and Bounty Hunting are exhilarating, but the payout compared to repair costs and a rebuy risk? Not worth it.
Trading can get you some good money... except there's no station browser. You have to manually dock at stations to get their info, and THEN you can see commodity info on the galaxy map, but you have to navigate a 3d map to find your stations. Or skip all that and use EDDB.io.
Exploration is great... for the first dozen hours or two. Watching loading screen after loading screen for hours to maybe find something weird out there is not really worth it.

That leaves me to mining.
All of the above pays around maybe a few hundred thousand to a few million per run. Now keep in mind, most ships are in the millions, with the most expensive ship being 200,000,000 credits.
Look at the "max sell price" of a mineable resource called Low Temperature Diamons: https://inara.cz/galaxy-commodity/144/

That's 1.5 million. Per unit. A single asteroid can net you about 10 Diamonds.

Mining is the only thing that can get you a reasonable amount of money in a reasonable amount of time. But mining gets stale quick.

If you want a proper space trading game with some good combat and a way to build an automated trading empire, check out X4: Foundations.

Puede que Star Citizen no salga nunca pero habiendo jugado y hecho la mayoría de métodos de trabajo puedo decir que este es una buena alternativa para los que quieran un simulador espacial.

Los controles son profundos pero fáciles de entender, en menos de unas horas les vas a pillar el truco y son muy cómodos con RyT.

Lo que le veo fallar es un poco de variedad visual ya que casi siempre estas montado en una nave viajando por el espacio. Por suerte estas ultimas expansiones de contenido (Y la que viene esta primavera especialmente) ayudan a aliviar esto. Recomendadisimo

I know you can't really finish this game to begin with but while I did play it for a good amount of time, I didn't even get far enough to buy a second ship. I think it's a good game if you're expecting trucking in space but otherwise a bit bare bones for me.

It is really immersive especially playing with a flight stick, so it can be fun to hop in for the spectacles as the game itself looks great!

I also haven't played any of the recent updates but I feel it'd do little to change my mind.

A mystifying product that is firmly niche, but space is so generally appealing that it manages to pull people in from well outside its strike-zone. The process of mastering flight in this game is uniquely satisfying, but the level of engagement with the world around you is shallow, and the developers are far too strict with the game's economy. It does not impact the game whether it takes 50 or 500 hours to max out the best ship, so why make it unnecessarily difficult? There's a point where even the most committed players won't find the ends justify the means.