Give pirates the same chance to see traders like they got.
Its not about pixel money, its about balance and interactions.
If we speak about balance, that is a little bit unfair when traders buy their battleships than start shooting on those pirates who had no chance to catch them due of this situation about bs scanners.
I had a spyglass on my pirate char, than it went poof due of changes. So at the moment I have -100 millions ( I had to sell it for cheap since its a crap now) and a character what has far smaller scanner range than traders.