Considering half the posts here fell into the category I consider "Too Long", I only read the other half. To a certain extent.
Anyway. You see, I want to get an Aquilon to simply RP a Carrier/Freeport in the Omegas, since, due to the Coalition civil war, there are some pretty good "RPers" there.
So, I have my (awesome) Crane with 4500 cargo and am making about 20 million per trade run. I basically already have 220 million, so I guess I need about... another 260 million. Every trip takes about 30 minutes. If I'm lucky. So, that's six and a half hours of trading.
You may or may not have noticed, that that is a heck of a long time for someone who goes to school.
I usually even get the "trader's block" everytime I attempt to start a run, meaning I get bored before it even starts and unconsciously try stopping myself from logging on to my trader - sometimes violently.
So, please, somehow make it easier/faster for people to get a ship if they have proven that they are worthy of it. E.g (as mentioned before) by writing up a RP story for their ship / char and maybe having to request permission to get a capship (since these are the reason for lolminers and loltraders to exist)!