A Bit Of A...Shift...

[alance]

Y'all need to remember that transports were rebalanced in 4.84 with something specific in mind regarding CMs... Big cargo ships don't get CMs while smaller ones do.

There's no speculating why this was done; the reason was to give the lighter transports something attractive so not everyone ends up flying the one with the fattest cargo hold.

With CDs being so fast the CM loses its value as a trade-off for a smaller cargo hold. There is room to reduce the speed of Train CDs somewhat so that CMs give these smaller transports the advantage they were meant to have.

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"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."