You're not, but there are those who are practically masochistic in their playstyle. I don't grind because I just stop playing out of boredom...haven't logged in for about three months now. I've been trying to get an Anaconda for about two years, playing on and off due to boredom, it's just that the most efficient way to get credits in the game is either trading or grinding passenger missions, neither of which I particularly enjoy. I can only do RESes for so long, and the Engineers kept me a bit busy after they nerfed the materials needed, which was greatly appreciated on my part.
What we don't understand is how people who don't care about how many or how few credits they have are adamant about how everyone should think as they do. If credits don't matter to them, then making enough money to fit an Anaconda properly shouldn't be a grind and they should have no problem with others making money. I believe that once you get to the higher ranks, your rewards should multiply exponentially, otherwise why even have ranks? If a dangerous or elite ranked person isn't making so much money that it dwarfs the lower ranks, what's the point? Bragging rights? At elite or dangerous rank, an assassination mission should have an 8 to 10 million credit reward (unless it already does and I just missed it from not having logged in for a few months). Making credits should be even across the board; I should make as much in bounties as passenger missions, yet passenger missions even after the nerf make PvE combat more of a side job to do when you're bored of everything else. An anaconda in a RES should have a million credit bounty, not 250k.
Elite is just being a space pilot venturing the galaxy and living adventures.
