' Wrote:One more problem I see in this is, that the number of traders could go down. Traders attract pirates, pirates attract lawfuls. So what happens if many players wouldn't need to trade anymore to keep their combat chars runing?
I don't see it being a problem at all. There are tons of people trading for their cap ships and things like that and they would continue to do so. Also there are a TON of people that don't have any official faction characters.
In fact this could also help drive up the official faction numbers.