Let's discuss: Who was the target audience for the EBM?

[Tomasz]

EBM was probably developped mainly for purpose of station building, and as extention they decided it would be good idea for casual/beginner players to have option of building ships in EBM,since they were developing such system anyways.
Either way they streamed al ltheir work into wrong project wasting time they needed to add actual gameplay besides building ships.
Now it is too late anyways.

 

[pavvvel]

When I see developers improving EBM but not improving ship control (mouse, joystick, etc.) I get upset. I don't understand how EBM can be more important than other things.
I still have to look away from the warp gate when flying less than 200km away so my video card doesn't explode. This bug is 100 years old and it would be better to fix it than to do EBM.