It's just "that ship" that I want to fly. Really, it's just because it's so beautiful and ironically I don't care about making money with it; I just want to be able to do different things. If I want to do passenger missions or bounty farming or trade, I can do it all in that ship. I'm not hurting, I mean, I fly a FDL and I've got over 100m liquid, but it's the experience that I want and it takes a lot more than I've got to properly fit one. Honestly, to keep it behind a credit wall that takes grinding to get there, whether you want to grind or not, is just disheartening. I understood it in the beginning because we couldn't have people in Anacondas after a week or even a month of play (unless they are inhuman and have no problem grinding for hours on end), but we're getting close to space legs now. We've got several things to do in-game compared to the beginning, and for FD to still be so protective over reward payouts is disheartening.
I want to play, but every time I think about logging in, I think about what I like doing, and that's PvE combat. Then I think about how long it's going to take to get the ship I want because I don't want to sit in front of my computer all day every day to do it, and then I just get immediately discouraged and stop. I tried enjoying landing on barren, lifeless planets and shooting rocks or collecting garbage. I tried powerplay grinding. I enjoyed the engineers after the nerf and was really happy with it, but then I fit my ship how I wanted and feasibly could at the time, and then I was back to square one: I need more money to do what I want, and it's terribly painful to get there. So I put it off and played other games.
I have a feeling that I'm not the only one.
My advice is have that as a real long term goal, but don't make it your focus. Just focus on doing what you enjoy, it will be roughly the same no matter what ship you are in, and the credits will come in regardless. Don't get hung up about the time it takes the game isn't going anywhere. I only have about 17milion in the bank at the moment. Had some ups and downs. Crashed my ship 200ly away from SAG A etc.
Make it an adventure instead if you can.
Out of curiosity have you actually flown an Anaconda yet, in live or beta?