As things stand now, ships are stupidly cheap and money is extremely easy to come by, plus there isn't enough difference between costs of ships to be realistic.

Ships made by major trade organisations like TPG could be expected to be relatively cheap; said organisations would have huge manufacturing capabilities. Ships made by outfits like Corvus should be much more expensive, since a grey-space pirate outfit won't be able to field the enormous military-industrial might of a trading or nation outfit.

This is basic economics; small outfits should be much more bespoke, much faster-developing and much, much more expensive than bigger, mass-production outfits.

The game doesn't reflect this yet; Corvus ships are still stupidly cheap. They should not be.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaawn. Ships from Corvus are already more expensive for the same product; you don't like the realism of the margins, too bad.

Now, should Corvus offer nasty, customized ships that don't make much sense to mass produce (and are probably illegal anyway) in the major organizations? Sure. Should those ships be horribly expensive? Of course.

We KNOW the economy is FUBAR, right now. It's apparently on the list. The biggest thing is the escort missions. They can offer 1 mil per run, and they are far too easy.

Good idea, but the devs are working on it...

I hope....

soon

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