I agree with quite a few things previously stated.
Pirate indies should have restrictions placed, such as only being able to pirate in non-house space systems that have jumpgates. *shrugs* That's just a suggestion, and probably not the best.
Corporations, like corporations in real life, should be buying out one another. Profit is their main goal. Also, buying another type of corporation shouldn't be too hard to explain inRP either. So have a couple get bought out, and maybe introduce one new one for variety.
EDIT: I know it may require FL hook to be added, but perhaps there should be a larger mining bonus for official faction tagged vessels.
"You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing. ... how, what you think the universe is, and how you react to that in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes. And that is as true for the whole of society as that is for the individual. We all are what we know, today. What we knew yesterday, was different; and so were we."
- James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed (1985)
