mission money

[Sigil]

Hi there. I've been playing this great mod quite a bit the last few days in single player and I was wondering if someone could give me a little input on mission money.

I'm currently at max level after spending what seemed like an eternity trading in a freighter to make enough coin to buy a viper, which I've now done. (beautiful ship) So I've been hunting around for a while now to find a good place to earn some money fighting, so I can try out the multitude of new ships. I checked out the missions on Crete and was pleased to see that the missions were over 200 k each. So I grabbed a random kill ships one and headed out.

I get to the waypoint and killed the first batch and head to the second waypoint where I find 3 gunboats waiting for me. "neat" I think to myself. That is, until I discovered that gunboats are now pretty much unbeatable in a fighter in this mod. I don't think I could take down one, much less three of them.

So my main question is, where would a good place to go to take missions that pay out a good amount, but don't have any gunboats in them? I've been flying around quite a bit checking out the mission amounts and I seem to be stuck with around 50-60 k per mission (and with a difficulty of about 20 or so), which would take quite a while to build up enough coin to try out some of the new nifty ships.

Thanks a lot for any info.