Why are cloak batteries so stupidly cheap?

[The Savage]

Uh...?
So players with huge bank balances get to prowl around and avoid interaction, but new players or those without many credits are thrown to the rich cloaking space wolves? And we are supposed to grow our population like this?
No thank you.

That's one way of looking at it. From my experience, it's the silent, non-RP players that have the biggest bank.

I have a quite different point of view. This way, we are teaching new/more players how to powertrade in the wild hours, because everything is expensive AF. Ironically, instead of providing additional income for pirates from more traders, it makes potential targets not to log at the same time as pirates.

Don't get me wrong, Garret. Moneysinks should be an option - not obligatory. There's a difference between cloak owner, who sits on billions - and cloak owner, who doesn't trade much and finally got a cloak.

But, there's a solution for non-RP silent traders. No reply for 30 seconds? It becomes blue. The situation repeats? File a report against such a player for rules violation. If admin cathes it? Bastille and fine.