Ok, my bad. Give this lady a glass of champagne. Or a vodka cruiser.
I still agree with the sentiment of the initial post. Log the bloody game, go for a fly and hunt players down the old fashioned way. Or do a Kaze and just have the same characters ship with slight variations of names all over the place and log as required. I'm certain that these players who don't log obviously don't because they have the cash to not need to trade so can afford to have these ship variations. Too much effort? Oh well, guess you don't want to adapt to something that people feel is better for the gameplay aspect.
It's simple really, log in and bump the activity up. This is Freelancer, not Forumlancer. You don't play the game to be sitting on the forums hoping for something to happen. Something happens when you are in game.