Excellent. I have only started playing with this game for the past week or so but it reminds me a little of X3 crossed with Escape Velocity: Nova. I wish that I knew XML so that I could help out.
I just want to be able to upgrade my ship so I can get some of the cooler ones that are in the game. Especially since I have checked out some of the mods, which are great, but crashed on me when I tried to remove weapons from the mod starting ships.