Not a moan at the game more a moan at the fact it feels like i've completed the game...

[Ian Skippy]

It used to be that income was much lower, re-fueling/re-arming/repairing was much more expensive, and 'just playing the game' was the 'credit sink'. Then people whined and moaned. "Its a grind! Respect my time!". So FD gradually increased income to absurd levels, and reduced all expenses into irrelevance. "Where are the credit sinks!", complained the community.

Here, let me grab my crystal ball:

"Carriers are too expensive! Reduce the grind! Respect my time!"

Followed by:

"Where are the credit sinks?! We've been asking for years!!!"

And the saga will continue. As for the OP: if you play a computer game for thousands of hours across half a decade, eventually you'll kinda have seen it all.

 

[Bowak]

Thank god they increased the mission payouts. The grind was very much not fun for me at least, and led to me not even touching the game for a couple of years - though that was in part also due to it clearly not being fully fleshed out yet to be fair.