The other night, a friend of mine who was sick of the Elite server gave me all of his money and left the server for good. He gave me a sum to tune of 5.3 million credits.

About transferring money around, everyone sais that it should be allowed and its not cheating ... If I have a tough ship, do a mission for 50K and then give that money to another character then that character passes back to another one of mine and I get a bigger ship ... I personally dont care either way, hell I do that on my LAN to try and get my friends ships up to speed to pick on the tougher stuff, but it IS a form of cheating, because when everyone is doing it, it spikes players abilities, that why Diablo and Dungeon Siege have weapons/items that are stat and level keyed; if you dont have the requirements, you can jam 50M gold where the sun dont shine, it aint gonna help.

In my opinion FL should have done the same, after all its just a fancy version of a Space-Diablo (find-kill-retrive-sell-improve). They should have made factions points much much harder to get, so you cant buy most stuff without at least doing missions.

That's what bribes are for.

I agree about making it more difficult to get high stat equip, although it would stink if you couldn't transfer money to your other characters. Also, new players that are helped out with a handout, often have already earned there equip on other servers. It sucks having to start from scratch when you have to change servers. I know some of you are saying, "Too bad!"

High level equip should cost a lot more too. It is too easy for everyone to have the best stuff. Mid-Level players are a minority. It would be cool if it took more workto get high level equip so that there would be more prey for high levels and more real threats to low levels. That makes getting to the top more interesting. An eagle should cost 5-10 million or more and the shield should cost the around the same. More so in MP than SP.

Topic getting spiderwebs on it. Unsticky.