Well, here I was on a new server having to start all over with like no money or anything which, as everyone knows, kinda sucks until you get your first 50k or so.
Anyway I happened to be on the battleship missouri(or whichever one that is in NY system). And some guy offered to fix my rep for like a kajillion credits or something like that. Well, i had like 1000 credits to my name but I decided to accept anyway and see what happened. Well, the game fixed my rep anyway and gave me the balance of what I should have paid, and i made off like a rich man. Now I am flying around in my defender rolling in the dough. Its kinda nice so if anyone else reads this before they fix it you could enjoy the benefits too. I went from having about 1k credits and a starflier to having a totally pimped out defender and loads of xtra credits without even doing any work.
btw I tried this same stunt on other bases and it didn't work, so it could have just been a glitch but might be worth a try.