I don't think traders should be paying more, but I do think that escorts have kind of been neglected in this event. They don't have liberty to engage most of the pirates who've figured out hogosha is the objectively best ID to run the event on since it can't be engaged, meanwhile it can engage freely when the odds are stacked on their favour. When escorts do get engaged and pull off a kill that is not as easy as /1 /2ing a transport, they now get a quarter of what a hogosha would get for the aforementioned /1 /2.
I, personally, don't care so much about the credits, if I did I'd frankly be running a hogosha gunboat, but I do think that we'd have more interesting gameplay if a) escorts could actually engage targets proactively and b) there was more incentive to escort beyond people doing it for fun.
This isn't to say the event isn't already going very well, it's really quite nice and it's been a great job putting it together, but I just think a couple tweaks wouldn't be unwarranted.
[03.07.2024] LNS-Beast***: we can do this every day but you have to buy bigger stronger ships...and i'll help you