Does anyone know who to disable the auto-difficulty

[Din Ahmed]

Let me explain my point.

I worked ages to get a pretty well kitted out Destroyer Mk III. But it seems that all the baddies have roughly equivalently capable ships to mine now too. They all seem to have roughly about the same tech level of weapons too... but thats okay I guess. But...

So I played aroung with fitting the destroyer with better shields and lo behold the baddies have better shields too... damn. I thought all that extra money was supposed to buy you an advantage. I seems I'm just were I started 4 hours ago though the equipment change. And I get pirates using Cruisers even when I still using the Destroyers... (Level 10 right now, forgot the rank just know I have 45 points to use up).

I'm guessing the equipment level matches your char level since I'm getting level 10 equipment as well.

What I'm trying to say is when I spend a tons of creds I expect to have some good advantage. So far the only advantage money has given me is allowing me to buy those shield/energy/armor rechargers so I don't die too often in batles.