First make all existing barges to starflyes with 1 b credits, in order to remove the unfair advantage of the current owners compared with the rest.
Keep the jumping option, increase the turn rate because NPCs are a way too harsh to barge users, the same cargo,no guns, GB shield in order not to be raped by NPCs/Gas clouds but make it not possible to dock anywhere. except playerbases- people would need loaders.
Make it build-able at player bases like the modules on 8 b price via insane amount of resources so they wont be spammed, if not possible/too hard to mod the building, just add ship dealer with 8 b price buy-able via base
stored credits.
This is the faster concept that is easy to implement if we go into detail it looks different:
All smaller and cheaper more then 5k ships are pure economic breakers and wet power trader dream so they must not exist.
The barge by itself is also economic breaker so making the costs to obtain/maintain one too high is the only option to keep the economy in tact. I wont mention how many people made many billions by trading with barges and with jumping with them and how much money players have that they should not have because it would turn into flamefest,people are greedy even for pixel money.
If you want to fix the cau8fail together with barge fail just increase the prices of everything 3-4 times-however then char corruption comes into play then may be division by 2 of the existing credits with some inflation would do it.
2 people can make 200-250( 300-320 if they use autoscript for jumping data) per person per hour with barge and jumper for the ones that are not aware of the situation.
Since the cau8 bug and the barge discovery became ridiculously easy to make money, not to mention the BS license removal.
So now you need to really proper balance it making it too expensive like proposed in point 1, however then the costs are also too easy to be covered.
My second proposal is better I guess- like Cannon proposed 2 years again via fuel propulsion- make the barge to use huge amount fuel in order to move on 90 speed or it moves with 5-10 speed, combine this with proposal 1 and you would get balanced barge- as trade off- it could receive 10k more cargo.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)
