From what I've played so far I have enjoyed it. The space battles took all but like 10 seconds to get used to. Not a huge difference really between that and the ground fighting. Just items that are obviously going to be different between controlling a space battle versus a ground battle.
The tutorial sections gives you just the basics to know what you are doing and I like that, instead of making you play through this just super drawn out and detailed tutorial. Half the fun in games like this is figuring it out on your own, in my opinion anyway. The character creation is decently fleshed out too. There have been some weird glitches I have experienced though. I'm as my character in sector space, when it should be my ship also a miniaturized version of my ship on ground based instances. Beta glitches I know, but really funny.
I'm back in, so I might not respond for a little while.