Why. Why would you leave the game in the state it's in? Why not take what you have, AKA the best building system I've *ever* seen in any videogame *ever* and repackage it into smaller, non MMO experience?
Even if development eventually continues, the game is just, unapproachable to most new players. You can't buy things from the shops anymore, because uhhhh the 4 guys who play have to build and craft everything in the "player driven market". The tutorial is just broken. Apparently new ships in the stores to buy are outdated and unusable.
Take your building system, all the parts you made, and just put it into a little box where I can build stuff, buy new parts with resources from mining asteroids from npc vendors, and that's it. No PVP, no MMO, no massive exceptionally boring empty universe. Reward whatever players are left by making salvaging an actually good way of making money. Right now the grind is exceptionally massive for literally zero reward. There's nobody to fight, and nobody who meticulously crafts a ship over 20 hours wants to see it detonated by a tripod on a skiff anyway. There's no reason to build beautiful complex ships besides your own enjoyment. There's nothing to do but grind to grind to grind, in a station that's so large it takes 10 minutes to walk from one side to the other.
There's no player economy, there's no players, there's no more development, there's no PVE, there's no reason to play. So why do I need 100 hours of grinding to just chill out, build ships, and go harvest asteroids or other wrecks. It's the most frustrating thing in the universe for this game, *this* level of technical ability, this construction system, to be wasted. I want it to be good so badly, I want it to be fun.
Bring back the npc shops for parts, drop the dumb grind requirements. Let what few people remain build unhindered in the vacuum until you guys come back and try to make the dream come true, if you ever do. I'm begging you. Please.