I am Rank 32 and I am a Konqul Fixer. I am the disabling type ship.

Decks: 214/215
Attack: 246 (relying on dominions for attack)
Defence: 181 (Inertial Canceler mk2)
Scan: 14 (for Elite NPC's)
Cloak: 0
Cargo: 115/375
Upkeep: 105.3K
Hull: 930
Shields: 70
Energy: 165
Money: 185 mil

Planetary Production: (Got a Kulgox Entity which I am currently trying to kill)
Minerals: 175/hr
Artifact: 148/hr
Research: 355/hr

Combat:
Reputation: Savage
Player Kills: 238
Deaths: 11
NPC kills: 14

If you need more info just ask.

It's difficult to judge you, i can't remember what stats were average at early gameplay.

You're combat reputation seems to indicate you are doing great.
Try to get silver badges and buy those bm50 convoy shuttles (costs 30 silver badges, size 20 , 100 def ), they're highly efficient and compact.

If you can ; Research level 4 buildings and upgrade your planets to those structures. Should boost your planetary productions further

I do plan to get the BM50's (I already know what they are), I also might get some surge plexus for energy. Also I am researching Graviton Shearing now.

Don't bother with researched weapons until you get Quantum Devastators, which i think are the ones right after Graviton Shearing.

You could screen shot your research page to give us all an idea how far you are into the research tech tree

The most important chains to research are these:

Planet Structures (up to +5's)
Hull (up to Nexus grids)
Energy (Up to Zero-point Energy)
Guns (Up to Antiprotons)
Scanners (up to Sub-Dimensional Sensors)
Research one tier of one, then move down the list, and keep cycling through until your have all of them doe. Then, you can start researching other things like cloak and defense.

Keep upping your research, until it gets to around 1500. Then, all into artifact. It is the most important stat in the game. (See more here, or come join us at The Invisible Storm).

Here is alot of useful material that you can use to gauge your ship from people who have posted this before, There is a more comprehensive list somewhere but i dont not have the link saved on my phone. Happy hunting

You can't see Elites until Rank 50, and Bosses until Rank 60, and even then they require 50+ scan to find.

Unless you're talking about the better Uncommons, which also require 50 scan.