[Phoenix-D]

Starfury has much better combat, and better in general ship design. It also has a normal registration system (EV:N requires you to re-approve your registration code with Ambrosia if you reinstall after a certain length of time), and no cheating humor ships running around.

If you're running Windows, Starfury is moddable, EV:N is not, though that may change soon. EV:N lets you capture ships and have escorts, Starfury doesn't.

EV:N has a better trading system, the missions are equal- though EV:N has no difficult levels and the missions are MUCH harder.

I get better performance out of Starfury, though your milage may vary there. EV:N for windows has a few port-related problems with the text being small and sometimes cut off.

Overall I'd say the win goes to Starfury, mainly because MM tends to add things in patches (cloaking is planned), and EV:N has a couple of features that REALLY annoy me.