I've gotten rich off of these constant battles. Right now, I'm sitting on well over 1,000,000 credits and tons of iron and titanium (haven't gotten past the titanium areas yet), as well as some exotic and exceptional equipment. Also, in my home sector, enemy transport ships keep entering the system and get blown up. I've picked them clean and picked up tons of cargo. What made me rich is selling the turrets and upgrades that I get from the wreckages. It was very easy to deck out my ship with good turrets and titanium integrity field and had no problems with pirates. I can take them out very quickly, pick their wreckages clean and make a handsome profit without even touching any asteroids. The biggest problem I have is the finicky diplomacy system. If I'm in a big fire fight with friendly ships, if I accidentally hit one of them, I lose standing with the faction. What? Also I was trying to help a faction that I had excellent relations with and at the end of the battle, I went from excellent to abhorrent. I don't understand why, I didn't target any of their ships, or at least I don't think I did. That was really messed up.
