The trailers are going to show you the Player vs Player, since that is what most people are interested in.

But everything in the game is manufactured.  You need to harvest the resources, refine them, then manufacture components and finally build ships.

SOMEONE has to do the harvesting and manufacturing.  You can do a good portion of it AFK.

Not to mention the "skill" system - it is all done in real time with no interaction from you.  You just queue up the skills you want (when I played you could do it 24 hours in advance) and walk away.