Erador your ideas are nice and creative, but Walt does not have the money or time to invest into MMO for Cosmoteer. For starters, the server required for this would drain a hell of a lotta money. I know a different game that is a MMO and it drags in a small amount of money in through ads. However, a lot of that earned money goes to the servers that cost 60 bucks a month. While you may say that thats a small amount of money, it actually totals 720 bucks a year and that game is very very small compared to Cosmoteer.
A Cosmoteer MMO server would probably need to have more capacity to store information and exchange it, since there are more players than the other MMO game. I'm talk tenfold more players.