You cant make any profit anymore. Nothing to do its boring. Selling prices are too low, buying prices are too high. Its not worth crafting anything anymore. Jumping from sector to sector to buy ores is nearly impossible because of the pirates they are so aggressive. So what to do shooting pirates is the only option and even this became boring in time.
You should fix the prices( they are changing too fast from 32 per ore to 70 per ore).
That is absolutely right. If I attack a pirate with 2 ships, equipped with 3x MLK-Iz laser, Ion Beam and 1x missile launchers, I need at least 30 minutes to kill a pirate. I have received from 5 killed pirates 1x guiding program. This is way too little for the time I need to kill a pirate.