Wacky Idea (warning: opinions contained within)

[Haste]

On-death repair costs are pretty simple to do (without flhook magic).

Make Nanobots & Shield Batteries cost somewhere along the lines of 10,000 credits each.
Snubs would have a ~1,000,000 - 2,000,000 credit death penalty (which is, to be fair, negligible).
Big capitals would have to pay up to 44,000,000 credits in repair costs (Marduk).

That does leave Cruisers as fairly cheap, though, and might cause some issues with NPC nanobot farming (although they could just be removed from NPCs entirely).

We need more money sinks in Disco so that players have initiative to trade. Right now, I don't trade (much) as I don't have any pressing need for a ship, and keeping ships stocked costs almost nothing.

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