Will it be possible to just open up a trade service beacon, to simply give someone credits or items without them having to fly anywhere or do anything?
TL;DRA trade window for simply giving credits or items is being actively discussed with no timing known, and for now a combat assist beacon can be used to pay someone over time but not for a guaranteed fixed amount.
At least within the design team, we've been talking about some sort of trade window, trade mechanism where players can do exactly that. So the service beacon is the first thing in the game where players are allowed to trade services or money. But this is just the beginning of this type of feature. So it's definitely coming. I'm not sure when that's slated, but it's actively being talked about.
You can kind of already do this. So if you throw up a combat assist beacon right now, you can just pay someone, and there's no end to it until either side cancels the contract. So if you want to give just money to somebody, they can accept it, and then you can just pay them however much money over the period of time. That said, if you want to give a fixed amount to a particular person, guaranteed, this isn't the right methodology for it. The service beacons are broadcast, and you can filter that down, but it's not really, I think, so much directed, at least yet. So I think maybe something like a more formal trade experience makes more sense for exactly that.