Easy cash = more time for fun, Choice: trade or shoot, whichever you pick, you get the same cash.
best missions in Sirius - real nuggets like destroying a battle station or a few capships should reach some 2 mil at least imo. Some time ago, mining was supposed to be an alternative...
we tried it, was most within our RP to try...
trading makes exactly 2 times more cash, than mining, 2 miners must stay put in the field so that the third guy - transport could haul the mined goods. waste of two traders, since while the freighter gets roughly the same cash as if he bough the goods, the two miners waste time and money mining while they could hop into a train. Conclusion: better minerals prices (I mean not only niobium), bigger drop rates on every mineral. Yes, even bigger than now.