My suggestion would be to have the choice of commodity/material rewards when you accept elite ranked missions. For example you when you click on a elite ranked mission and you could click some boxes to choose b/n like 2 cracked industrial firmware, instead of 2 modified embedded firmware. Or 4 conductive ceramics only or whatever, or just choose some commodity reward/or only credits instead instead of either so the credit reward may go up slightly if you opt of out getting materials/commodities. Mission bartering w/ the factions sorta, no idea how hard it would be to implement, maybe others suggested it in the past 
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