I would really like there to be a Galactic crash. Inflation is unsustainable. Two, possibly three zeros have to be removed from the profit made from things like mining.
The speed that a Commander can now afford a 'big' ship is a bit silly.
In my opinion, it drives a couple of bad behaviours.
- because money is so prevalent, nothing is really valued anymore
- because ship reby is no longer an issue, people no longer value the risk in losing their ship, meaning that they are more likely to attack someone else without fear of repercussions
- The attach rate of the game goes down because a commander was able to buy everything in game almost immediately, so one bad experience means that they put the game down and move onto something else (there was nothing more to do...)
Mining should have been a niche facet of gameplay, something for the die-hards, wierdos or completionists to do but because it is so dominant as a credit generation mechanism, when I was saving the last few million towards the Fleet carrier, I was sharing system space with Commanders who had bought the game just a few days / weeks earlier and thought that the only thing Elite had to offer was mining.
I would hope that Frontier have enough data on the game to understand how much progression is made on any particular aspect and could have a go at balancing if they wished but I understand their reluctance to do so due to the potential high salt content.
Something like another Thargoid invasion putting the markets into panic (as anounced through Galnet) - it would please the pew-pew crew, nuanced trading could still make money and at the same time the earning returns on the various carrers could be balanced (just a suggestion)