' Wrote:Why to have a ship in the mod and not to use it? Barges should be rare but there should be at least some flying around. Now I haven't seen any barges since the spring 2012(except for one standing still in some guard system)
Because the usage of Barge was to be STATIONARY storage/station platform when developers added it to the mod.
They were used for ore storage, I used it for ore storage, Lane Hakcers used it for loot storage.
Barge was used, but they were not common. They were common sight when it were publically available, but it was balanced in the end to be worse at trading on your own.
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