I've been trying to find a good free roaming space game for a while now, but I keep coming up empty. I've played the I-War games to death, along with Freelancer. I played a bit of an X3 demo (I forget which one), but couldn't really get into it, mostly because of the indecipherable UI and the fact that I spend about two hours ferrying some guy from station A to station B inside the same orbit... On the other hand, I only spent a couple of hours with it, so maybe it gets better later.
I guess overall, I'm looking for something similar to one of the X3 games, something with combat, trading, maybe a little corporate empire-building.
Anyone have any suggestions? Should I give one of the X3's another shot?