To me it's not about making money. You just need it to buy ships and support them. Speaking of piracy: a pirate catching me is something I have yet to see alive! If only they were just as organized as, for example, rheinland military, and just as _active_ (be online and not waste rounds in connecticut arena), well then perhaps it would have been fun. I don't want to have mission rewards equal trading runs, but they do need increase in my opinion, as well as higher level missions for coop. In my observation of the short time I've been playing here the issue is that there are not enough pirate players. But there are tons of traders running around almost on auto-pilot just sleeping for most of the way.
