Trading in SP is not needed at all. High lvl missions after campaign (or in Open SP) plus selling escape pods into prisons give you all you may need. If you will do little search for bonus mission, you can have in campaign half more as 100m ... short to say, in SP moneys are not issue. CF is primarily MP mod and therefore we have some restrictions. In MP are good reasons why are 'scanning' tools disabled. Crossfire Short Stories Part XVII: New discoveries in the Sol system?