There is micro management, you can build you own business and manage all your fleets trade roots or if you wanna be a pirate lord you can order you ships around and control tactics and so on so involving and so awesome.
lol, yeah its possible i mean you could start small say hijacking one little ship and taking cargo from small time ships, and then move up and end up commanding fleets of pirate ships and take over huge cargo ships and wage wars in diffrent sectors all at once and everything so awesome.
I always thouight it was a multiplayer game, I must've mixed with another game. So it was Single Player.
Two questions:
How does it compare with Freelancer and is it only available from Steam? (I'm adamant not to use anything from Steam)