Fly to Vaere and I'll blow you up, if you insist...
It's potentially a very addictive game... You only have to look at the amount of work people put into the corporations. I already have a job though

I think the skills system does help to avoid me getting too sucked in, since you don't need to be constantly grinding away to gain XP, it just happens all the time- strange at first, but it makes sense after a while