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Sorry if this is a tired topic, first post ive made here, but I truly don't understand the reasoning behind this.

WHY, can I not send CMDRs credits?

I understand the potential fear Frontier has about RMTs or exploits, yet they feel so heavily outweighed by the sheer sense it makes. I've been playing ED since 2014, and I honestly always expected it to arrive as a feature eventually. But 3 "expansions" and nearly a decade later, and nothing.

If my friend is a bounty hunter, and I'm a Miner, we can't play together. We can play together by simply existing in the same resource site, or being in a team, but if I want to have my buddy protect my big ass T9 he has no incentive to care because every second he sits next to me, protecting me, he is missing out on the bounties 15kms away in the same site. Yes, I understand that there is a percentile cut that team members get when you sell things, but that's besides the point. That's a profit of the product I am selling, not credit for helping me get that very product.

Sooo….LET ME PAY THEM!

I'm not asking for some complex economic systems, or a player driven economyor anything like that. Just a little tab in the COMMS panel. Click on a player name, "Send credits", a little text box appears, you put in a number, and Bing bang bong, suddenly my space game feels much more like an MMO, which is what ED is, than a single player grind fest.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm in the minority.
But considering the main grind of this game isn't even the credits you spend, it's the mats you have to farm, the ability to send a new player a few million credits to help them out seems to be the farthest thing from a "problem". And I'm really struggling to even think of the "worst case scenario" in Frontiers mind about this. What, someone now has enough money to buy something that they can afford to insure? Or they buy a fleet carrier they can't afford to operate?
…big deal? That shit still happens now. That shit happened at launch. I just don't get it.

I'd love if there was some kindve forum post or article if Frontier ever directly spoke about this in detail, if you know of one please provide. I did a quick Google search for one, but didn't find anything recent. Just old forum posts making the same complaints as me.

Thank you, for you coming to my TED talk CMDRs. I hope to one day meet you all in the stars, and throw digital money at your ships face.