[Aphelion]

Originally Posted by Shual

In addition, you'd need something with lots of gun slots like a heavy fighter to be able to blow someone up and take his stuff. Since scavenging would mostly yield base commods, you'll end up filling your tiny cargo bay with heavy, cheap metals and making very little money for the amount of effort and risk involved.

Just to note for balance purposes, ships with more gun slots would have an advantage over ships with less. Think how the three LF's differed in guns.

1:1:1:1 = Oct

1:2:1 = Quant

2:2 = Sol

The Sol's would have a huge disadvantage if they wanted to go burglaring, losing half of their firepower, while the Oct would keep 75% of his firepower and so would the Quant.