I find it a little annoying that you absolutely must trade to purchase any big ship. I have -a lot- of characters active (nowhere near someone like Dab, but I digress) and many more in development. Sometimes we don't have a trader we RP. So we absolutely must have one to buy any big ship? What's the reasoning behind this? Very rarely does someone write a story on how they -really- came about their capital ship, in which they traded and traded and traded and then waltzed up to the local shipyard and ordered their Osiris/Dread/Dessie etc.
What needs to be done is higher paying missions. Harder missions. Right now we trade and trade (with some of us, a lot of us, doing so silently) and then do a totally ooRP /givecash to a new character. Battleship away!
I know it's probably unavoidable, I just find it a little dumb that you have to RP a trader to make any real amount of money here. Why can't we add new sources of income, really?
