Discovery Economy Reformation

[Carlos_Benitez]

I need 200m to set up a Pilgrim, a Liner. Not everyones ambition is to fly fighters or capital ships for that matter. Also, I'm in an official faction and I don't get anything for free. Also, the point you seem to raise is "Join a faction! That way others can enslave themselves to get YOU what YOU need!". That still hardly solves anything.
I traded on my Junker for a month or so with no real purpose or goal. Once I got fed up I had ~700m in my account. I bought a cap6, BS scanner and cheetah thruster for my Salvager. For the lulz. Problem is now that I have a clear goal I realize just how slow profiteering is. I still have some degree of fun trading ( not as much as back then now with scrap mining nerfed and diplomatic cockups restricting me to only a handful of routes).
The playing field was leveled, yes, at the expense of everyone else. Most routes are equally profitable. Too bad that that equal value is so low.
PS: OLOL I fail at foruming. Gimme a min

Liners are the Battleships of the trade-world. Again, only fair that they cost a fair ammount of time to get hold of. If people have ambitions, they should be prepared to pay for them. At no point did I suggest everyone's ambition was fighting. I simply suggested that players ambitions should be put aside in favour of character development.
As for your comment about factions, it seems a bit laughable to suggest a faction leader is encouraging leaching at his own expense. The money in faction coffers often comes from individuals such as myself who continue to trade for fun, and have no-where else to put the money.
ie. surplus money from traders with a healthy attitude can be given to those who would otherwise be trading simply as a means to buy something else.

To put it simply; if you're new and you want to get stuck in, go and have fun. If you want to fly huge ships, expect that you will have to pay for them, by massive investment of time, or better still, play the game, and progress to bigger ships when the money inevitably piles up.

Oh; and achievements are only as gratifying as the amount of effort put in to achieve them.

---