i have some pretty slow internet being in Afghanistan, until shortly after the new year, then watch out all u pirates cuz i am coming with a vengeance! any way i am limited to basically running a train. i am all ready frustrated by my millions sitting in the bank that i cant use. but i think my biggest frustration is that independent merchants are limited in ship size. i would really like to work out a long circle route that takes me all the way around/through sirius and back. this would allow me maximum contact with all the factions, running from hackers is fun, but every day in the same places gets old. it is definitly in RP to have a hard core merchant who just goes any where. and i am fairly certain he would be rich enough to buy a liner of some sort. Back in the sailing days am man owning a ship was rare but not unheard of. especially in the clipper area. granted they obviously had national affiliations, but the IS freelancer. i can definitly see a bretonian freetrader plying the trade lanes and bringing back millions to his home system. can anything be done or am i crazy?
The reason for the size limitation is that they were trying to attract people to join corporate factions, which had until recently been almost completely ignored.
You could possibly get a special RP request for it, but honestly even before the limitation was in place I never needed or wanted to upgrade past a Border Worlds Transport (3600 cargo). The bigger transports are a lot trickier to fly through asteroid fields and the like...