Okay, so not everyone is rich, thats good.
But nobody should be so stinking poor they are always importing funds because of how much it costs to play the game.
So scratch base-generated missions making "serious" money.
But seriously, stuff like mining...
Right now, I think Helium is one of the greatest mining spots in the game, located in Pennsylvania System.
Its easy to find newbies to work the Gas/Ore hauling jobs for your big mining ships... and everyone makes some money, but...
There should be mining spots all over Sirius sector that...
ooh maybe they are 150K away from the base you sell at and theres no Trade lanes, and theres constant deadly pirate attacks out there?
that can mine HEAPS of an item that the base roughly 150K away buys for 3k+ per unit...
This would heavily promote huge mining corporations. (Roleplaying groups)
Build like 4 or 5, maybe 6 Mining Ships fully equipped, and get a large fleet of roughly 2k cargo Transports to relay the cargo up and down the line, and lots of fighters/bombers to escort the transports and protect the mining ships.
They'd make a fortune, and have some good RP.
A mining ship or super transport by himself would have to OoRP his reputation to get to dock on the base that buys AND not get shot by the hostiles, while getting lots of cargo and traveling 150K each direction to sell it, would never make any money.
---This is just an example of a "teamwork" operation that would generate a fortune, whilst locking out loners.
