Earn a badge that comes with perks for Philanthropy:

Donation of money and/or goods to any player below a given wealth/age threshold

1. Receiving player should have a different IP than giving player (reduce cheating) and both be online

2. Receiving player must be somewhat new or derelict. could be determined by:
a. The age of the account
b. Licenses or absence of certain achievements
c. Maximum amount of credits ever held
d. Value of assets
e. Standing with ones own nation
f. Current amount of credits
g. Any combination of any number of these factors

3. Giving player receives points toward the badge or different levels of the badge
a. More points for higher value giving (heavily weighted)
b. More points if you have never given to the player before

4. Possible rewards for badge earners:
a. An XC with 250cu but almost no armor (can carry larger ships?, call it the "hope edition" or something")
b. Significantly increased faction penalty for any player that kills the "hope edition" XC in a particular faction zone (or the player in general).
c. A special NPC that can deliver credits and/or goods to any player meeting the criteria for being needy (see # 2.) without interference. Even if they are in a different sector.
d. drastically reduced cost at stations for items that are "necessities" like water and food items (this fits the charitable theme)

This is an idea meant to help redistribute wealth in the game from older accounts to newer players who no longer have available the means of earning that older players used (ie.. transition to dynamic economy). Subsequently reducing some portion of resonate wealth that was earned by the old means. The rewards must be high enough to prompt people to persue the badge.

An interesting additional idea is to have a badge that compliments this one called (panhandler's badge).. if that idea peaks anyone's interest, speak up.. I have some ideas of how that might work as well.

While i'd like a philanthropy badge, i dont think the rewards 4a/b are a good idea. People that give out stuff do so for free and dont expect a reward for it (at least i do).

Now the idea of 4c is something i'd like. I could send newbkits to new players when im too far away :)

-1 to rewards in general, and especially to 4b. In practice what this would result in is vets having their friends create throwaway accounts so they can "donate" money to them that will be promptly returned. It's even more exploitable by people who are good at VPN, or who are in range of and have the password to a neighbor's wifi, or who have more than one VO-capable device with at least one of those devices having a mobile data plan. In these scenarios, they can run both accounts themselves with each one accessing the net via a different IP.

-1 good idea but soooooo exploitable

+1 so long as is retroactive to the last four years in which I gave out many billions