Well honestly, since when has the game NOT been balanced towards traders? True, in the PVP arena, trade ships suck, and rightly so, but the truth is I can make a billion credits trading while watching a season of BSG, only casually looking at FL on the monitor because nothing pops up. And should I be unlucky / foolish enough to get caught by pirates, I just pay them the 2 million and keep on grinding. 2 million is peanuts for 99.9% of all traders in the grand scheme of things. There's little to no risk getting pirated, and furthermore you are covered by extreme care bear measures in the unlikely event that you should get caught. There's simply no risk, and without risk there aren't any challenges, and without challenges there's no fun.
