Right now, cost for extra slots in the corporations increase exponentially. This effectively put an upper limit on corps size. A low limit. To give you an example, the 20th slots is going to cost 3.276.800.000. Over 3 billions. That's 1500 Titan, 1500 of the biggest ship money can buy. This mean corporation are effectively limited to around 10 members. I find this a bit to low.

I'd suggest changing it from an exponential to a polynomial growth. Still increasing fast, but getting large corp is actually possible.

Yup, totally. Which is way we need way to transfer money, and way to fight as allied corps.

I'd like to make my point for the suppression of safe zone. It creates an imbalance between pirates and miners because miners have to have assets open for attack at all time, while pirates only are open to attack while they're online and raiding (Which of course mean they can jump out of the system).

Safe havens shouldn't be absolute. Safe havens should be planets with large defense stations, not some gamey stuff. How cool would it be to have pirates havens? War and safezones? It could be good to give some kind of defensive bonus to stations too, to help this happens.

Actually, even now, a ship-by-ship division would be nice, so we can order freigther to stay behind while our armed ship fight. Maybe even make it so that if someone attack a freighter, he may retreat behind the cruiser and let it handle the fight.

Yup, they landed in Alpha GJ 674 without problem and paid me an handsome sum. Who cares if they're idiots as long as they're rich?

As far as we're discussing piracy, what do you think of the safe zone near each system? Shouldn't they be removed? As things stand, they make any anti-piracy operation night-on impossible. But they also protect people that park their ships there....

Yup. As it stand, being a member of a corp bring really minor advantages. Alliance would be ready neat too, we could see the start of mercenary corp offering protection service.

There is some truth in that. It should be easy enough to detect people farming alt though.

Yup, that'd be great. Villo, would you mind resizing your signature? This too is getting ridiculously large. :p

Yup, we need markets.

As it stand, we'll soon have a problem: pirates are gaining in strength and soon it'll be impossible for a new player to establish stations as the pirates would be way stronger. However, rather than imposing resrictions on combat, a simple fix would be to make corp members fight together if they're in the same orbit.

This way, stronger players can shelter new ones. Pirates can coordinate raid to take down big targets. And I don't know how your code's working, but it shouldn't be too difficult to change the test from "Does that ship belong to a fighting player" from "Does that ship belong to a fighting corporation"

So, another pirate?

I was ferrying some colonists to Alpha GJ 674, but when I talked to them they were saying they wanted to go to Alpha Epsilon Indi, in the GJ 674 system. I've not dropped them yet so we'll see what happen.

Yup, market price are important. It doesn't make sense for fuel cells to be as cheap in orbit of GJ 674 Alpha than on earth.

Actually it works pretty well: space stations are immobile and not as well armed as a pirate ship. And a pirate has nothing to loose but his ship.

Well, I don't think Piracy is worth it. Sure, a bit looting here and there when the occasion rpesent itself, but if you're going to be online 24/7, you might as well move colonists around.