What if you drop a fixed amount of cash when you get killed by another player based on your level rather than a percent of how much money you have? We would then need to have some consequence for not having the cash, though. Maybe Death Debt? I dunno.

a fixed amount drop puts a formula on piracy rewards though, half the point is the randomness, sometimes you get someone who only has 5m on them and get nothing, sometimes you ambush a guy with billions and get 700m. having a set amount just seems to take the fun out of it

mining roids (no effort, can be afk while doing so) gives adamatanium?

no

Lastly, I still cannot stress enough that you need to find a balance between the following. Imagine A shoots B and B is somewhere in a non-team galaxy (very common). This means B's Team can not do a thing about this agression. This is a team game, and while I understand we cannot have a team of 50 be untouchable, cause the moment someone thouches them the entire team can come over and kill him.. But the fact that teams are too big doesn't mean we cannot allow a team to help its member when it is being attacked, that's ridiculous. Cap teams (start with a high max members.) and balance something out, so that it doesnt require wardeccing to be able to defend a team member who got shot.

Your obviously not gonna get them every single time Goz.

Maybe a 1-2% chance for Adamantium, 3-5% chance for Gold, 7-10% Chance for Silver, and other rareish commods that could be made to sell for 200k+ to AI bases.

And if you went AFK, you would be instakilled.

Just had an idea, Capital Class Ships could have mobile smelting facilities, that make Gold bars from gold, Adamantized Envelopes/Diffusers and so on, would be really fun.

OR you could make that stuff Engineer.