I really don't understand what all the complaining is about. While it is true that there are occasional "super-routes" yielding massive profits in short time, profits from "legitimate" goods are also at record highs, especially alien organisms, diamonds, gold, engine components, and others. I have not experienced any problems with collecting escape pods, even doing random NPC hunting, although I have witnessed NPC's also tractoring escape pods; this is a first for CF 1.82, as far as I know. The…