I suggest taking the class 9 shields off the large trading vehicles like transports/trains lower it to class 8, maybe even class 7. Maybe leave it on the Armored Transport, it should be a tough nut to crack.
I don't know... just a suggestion...
I think the cargo holds should stay, eventually adding a few transport vehicles of same/similar specs to the Large Train for variety...
As for the player wipe... Badger, you would agree with me that 2 mil is really a small compensation for my 'corporation' with 800+mil in cash and 15 ships (3 of them storages), most of them fully loaded with expensive and/or rare equipment most of the ships above level 65... But a player wipe ok if it's needed I'm saying I'd like a bigger compensation, at least a Large Train and money for first full cargo hold back to Manhattan or Houston.
Again... If I start from Zero, I can buy a large train in some 10 hrs play and be well on my feet doing passenger runs... I want to say - 2mil or 0mil... not that it matters too much.
Nightfall.
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor