Money making balance

[Darkseid667]

I think missions should come third in profitability to transport trade runs, freighter trade runs, and mining. Trading is essential because it drives mobile, vulnerable targets, to drive piracy, to drive lawful activity and escalation of force.

IMO missions driving capship activity in Delta or hordes of in-group capships does nothing for community interaction and server activity.

I'm against increasing the cargo space of 5K. A transport 2/3 the size might be much cheaper and make slightly less, but over the lifetime of the ship, there's a huge advantage to the 5K.

I also think that profitability should be scaled back a considerable bit. Everyone's at the endgame and it takes barely any time to work up to the big ticket items, and that earning and growing is a big deal. It's a mechanism that naturally reduces the number of inexperienced community members at the helm of capships.

Well, in times of a diminishing player-base (just wait till Corona wanes off) you have to do for the community whatever you can. And RP, well, I have repeatedly heard the opinion "if you want to RP, got to the forum, we are just here to blow up POBs".

BTW, capital ships aren't endgame, skill is endgame.