having market places where players of all ranks are able to trade with credits or swap items would add another dimention to the game. the markets could be placed on planets which require a scan to be found. when a market is found players could be given button options ,swap...buy. just another idea that i think would be cool.

Would these "market" planets be player controllable or non controllable? If they were, it would almost be like a KoH planet, because more then likely the planet owner would probably receive 1-10% of the profits

Also not many people scan the same planets so the markets would be very sparsley used and if you increase the chance of scanning marketplaces then people would complain when they scan a marketplace that gives no mineral/arti/research points and tbh it would be a downer having marketplaces decreasing your scan efectivness at finding planets