Paying a Freelancer or any mercenary in the heat of battle is tough.
/gc - givecash
and
/gct - givecasht
would speed that up immensely.
Another idea might be to allow the merc to /askcash NAME AMOUNT
to which the player can /pay
Just my small idea I got when I read Spazzy talking about his drone adventures.
Edit: Just realised that this would also help pirates.
Trader receives this message:
Dread.Pirate.Roberts asks you to pay 2.000.000 credits. Type /pay within the next 60 seconds to pay.
of course no other /askcash command will run on the player. Otherwise you could accidentally pay someone a billion.