I have played a bit trying to get income from trading. As I was trading using a Starfarer and had significant amount of UEC I have decided to hire some escort. And here comes a problem. Current economy is set up this way, so that a bulk trader can not just buy full cargo in one place and sell full cargo in another. If I do it this way I get a lot of errors that do not allow me to sell my full cargo hold of goods because the buyer just does not wan't to buy that much (and does not really say how much he want's to buy). This causes a problem. If I buy a full cargo hold for 50k aUEC, and am earning a whooping 5% on it I get 2,5k per run. With 4 hired guns and only Pilot in SF that is 2,5k for 5 people. Now, if I can not sell that full cargo and can sell 1/3rd of it i get around 900 aUEC for 5 people (180/person) and that is just silly. If I wanted to additionally add 3 gunners and run more profitable goods and invest say 200k I would be supprised even more as buyer buys around 10% (if I'm lucky) of my cargo hold. So I risk more, hire more people and still get around the same amount of income. Mind You... I am risking that all the cargo in my hold, so if I have invested 200k that is what I'm risking. If I have invested 500k the that is my risk. If I am risking 500k, am hiring 7 people to escort me and man the guns then why can't I earn enough to pay them?