Reading through a lot of this I have to say the idea is innovative. However, there are some issues with it. Say you have played this game for 2 years, seeing every change and liking it more and more. Most of your time is spent salvaging and building your ship of mass destruction. Let's say to finish the ship you need 2 mil blocks total. Even with advanced building that's a lot of blocks to place, but you're up to the task. Most of your time is spent salvaging, but there are issues with that even. First off the server is split 50-50 with 3 big factions ganging up on the small factions and wiping them off the server because one guy mentioned they hate space whales. Second, those larger factions have most of the better territory with multiple planets located at the galactic core and have the people to salvage it. Third you have to hide in the middle of buttfuck nowhere to keep those larger factions from attacking you because you blinked funny. Fourth and finally there are hardly any shops becasue of the "new galactic update" that only makes one shop available every 10 systems. Note: I said systems and not sectors. Oh, and those bigger factions also own all the territories with shops in them. That's with the previous system ALONE because these factions have the credits and the blocks to build their 15 mil block fuckeverything ships.
Now let's go ahead and add the newer system. You are now required to get the blocks necessary to build your titan so you can adequately defend yourself. There's 6 people in your faction mining whatever they can for HOURS just to get the materials to make the blocks. After the month is over you get the blocks necessary to build your ships, but you still need to build the damn thing which takes upwards of 3 months to build, perfect systems, and add detail to. Meanwhile every other small faction is doing the same, meaning you cannot form an alliance with them and ask for things they cannot offer. Trading with the large factions (50 people in total, 3 faction alliance) will only allow them to grow bigger and have a firmer grip on all of the people in the server. Plus they have so many people they can just spawn in whatever ship they want, credits or no credits, while you still have to build yours from scratch. On top of that you have to salvage for more materials just to build another one. There's another month while the large factions are now at something like 6 capitals, while you only have 1. Nobody else has the means to defend themselves because of their reliance on blocks they don't have, even if they all form an alliance with one another. So then what? They can't craft anything if their salvagers are constantly being bombarded by these larger factions unless they move 4 galaxies away. They are powerful regardless, but buying ships with credits can save your ass in a pinch before you get wiped off the map completely because it takes less time. Besides, if you spent 3 months perfecting it why should you spend another to gather the resources for the blocks to then rebuild it?
You people want more player trading. You want new mechanics for making ships. You want it to take more time. However, you fail to realize the repercussions of when things take too much time because arrogant munchkins own the server. You fail to realize the effects it has on the little people, 2 year vets or not. All it does is help the larger factions grip us like a corporation would by selling us what we need and then destroying it before our eyes.
