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I'd reckon less than 1 in 300 people have ever been in space in Freelancer, and only and absolutely minuscule fraction of that have flown/know how to fly a ship. It's like how many people do you know with a pilot's license? Then multiply the difficulty of flying the 'plane' by several magnitudes and you've got a spacecraft license.
Going by that line of thought, I wouldn't have thought that new people taking to the void would affect ship prices that much. Piracy and war losses would affect it though.