+1 on this! I bought that game during the summer sale and i love it. It's an amazing game and the only one of it's kind on the battle side and immersion you get from huge fleets clashing over space.
The only issue with the game is it was created on an older game engine and runs only on 32bit, so memory is an issue to the game and to many mods will make it crash because it's using to much memory. If they updated it to a whole new 64bit engine(or modify, but it does need a new engine) and upped the somewhat old textures/graphics(or even just ship details tbh) it would be 100% better in every way. Or just add a story and more factions would be awesome as well.