07-22-2015, 01:55 PM
Really, the economic gap mostly just stems from the fact that the crew never use money as a medium of exchange. There's infrastructure in place for players to exchange money for services, but none of it is ever used, so no one gets or uses any money at all except for the ones that can generate money directly, and bank accounts mostly just serve to slow down the HoP's embezzlement a bit. It's a fundamental problem with money - no one uses it except to buy from merchants, to run "corrupt bureaucrat" or "salesman" gimmicks, or as a paper bin that fits in a pocket.