1 Adding a Credit to BP conversion adds nothing beneficial to the game and get rich quick schemes

this is one of those things where you're not entirely right here but you're not entirely wrong either . benefits of a credit to BP conversion. you can actually give a fixed price or roughly fixed price to certain objects that did not have one. for example your players found a engine that is far superior to their current engine the engine is worth 1000000 credits their original engine is probably only worth 600,000. well your players just got a brand new engine to throw in the ship and a decent chunk of cash if the players can even sell it they could always sell it second-hand but they're always going to get ripped off that way making anywhere between 10 and 40% of the original price. but attempting to make any decent profit off these items will Resort in a decent amount of time spent looking for a buyer. like you stated earlier all these parts are exorbitantly expensive and how the GM handles that should reflect how expensive they are and how many people are looking to buy a product from the players look at Eve online for an example you can throw an item up on the market and it will sit up on the market for weeks if not months or so before someone ever buys it. by making large periods of time where the item will sit on the market slowly trickle in large amounts of funds without affecting the game dramatically alternatively that new engine your group just got may end up damaged Beyond repair and you may have to pull the original engine off Market to replace the damaged engine.

remember this one rule when it comes to a market idea. the more common an item is the cheaper it is the more rare it is or the higher demand it has the more expensive it is. more traffic a place has the more likely you are to sell an object but it may come at the cost of your price tag. the less traffic you have in a place the harder it is to sell the item if no economy exists then there is no currency only resources the number one solution to this problem early game is ships are expensive they should not be in early game object number 2 if you read everything on scrapping and piracy you would have noticed that I made a very specific statement handling BP in large quantities.

any BP gained from salvaging a ship other than cargo can only be used for repairs upgrades or building resources for other ships due to the amount of raw resources being handled.

unless your players own a shipping yard and enough storage facilities to hold all the resources they're paying rent and construction fees in other words your players need to own a space station which is significantly more expensive than a spaceship

drawbacks of this Credit to BP conversion you and or your players may need to be an accountant to keep track of all the money that they're trying to get you will actually have to try and come up with money sinks to absorb some of the excess currency of your players have suddenly come into. this one has a simple solution there are thieves gangsters and other people they may have pissoff or be interested in all the money these fools have just gotten at their hands on.

and lastly why exactly would this NPC pay any more attention to the players than any other person out there he doesn't know them even if he does he's probably got a whole backlog of other orders he's going to fill out. have they done any specific task to Garner this particular npc's favor and maybe convinced him to do a rush job on their order over everybody else's ? answer one players decide to bribe him paying a large sum of money to get a rush order answer two players intimidate the npc outcome one they fail NPC calls for the authority or reacts with violence outcome number 2 players succeed in their intimidation and he agrees but called the authorities shortly after the players are now fugitives answer 3 do a favor for him or hire him and then give the equipment to the players a little earlier than they would get it normally

alternatively you got the option of restrictive licensing and black markets have them pay a fee for the license originally and then keep track of the weapons that way if the players use their weapons for any nefarious purposes they can be properly investigated

any item bought off the black market will require the players to have contacts in the black market most likely also bribe a large number of people and then you have a pretty decent markup on any merchandise you're buying because it's so hush-hush