Hi :) Sorry for late response...
We're aiming to be both seating and standing experience.
At this time we're not considering cockpit mode as we want to emphasize the in-space experience... which brought us to our version of the 3rd person view. Eventually yes, but probably not for small / fast accelerating spaceships.
We're aiming for an open world, but ... at the first release (we're still in deep development) we want this to be only spaceships flying, trading, fighting, building.
In the later releases we want space stations and other buildings will be explorable, but we want the contents of the buildings to be defined by their owners...
And even further down the road, we see landing on asteroids / planets / moons...
Eventually we assume there will be several control styles bound to the vehicle a player is in.
