This has probably been asked before, but could the shield and thruster from the Marsflyer be put for sale anywhere (such as the most complex (location and rep) base there is). This is because currently it cost, in wasted fund (resale values), roughly from memory $11 million credits to get them, not including you need $20 million to start with and then still might have to fly most of the way across the Freelancer map to get back the ship you were initially flying.
I would not mind if they each cost $5 million and had to become friendly with a complex selection of factions just as long as you nolonger felt like you were wasting so much money. (This might also mean that people would not just form trading characters to get two bits of equipment.
My two cents if it has been asked before just a quick response will do.
My Characters:
The_Laser => A freelancer, exploring the universe and joining in whith anything happening
Its the price you pay if you want to get that little bit of upgrade ... It used to be done
alot for the weps, the shield and thruster, were just a bonus. Now its not really worth
doing it at all ... Ship stays though.
Hoodlum
Some say he is a proud member of: "The most paranoid group of people in the Community."
Let me try putting it this way: I've never (maybe rarely) used more than 50% of the Advanced thruster power, I generally have Nomad thrusters mounted and I think I may have two Mars thrusters and a Mars shield... they're leftovers from 4.79... Not worth the 11mil and the fuss, believe me.
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor