' Wrote: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.
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 cha 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.
Which is why its jumping should be removed. The barge itself is not an economy breaker; it's so slow that a barge is actually harder to make money with than a 5k transport, without jumping. Jumping is the only way it's even very profitable. Which is a bit ridiculous, IMO; jump-hauling all day is just powertrading for credits, without much roleplay.
Barges should instead be a long haul for traveling, and used for long expeditions to get to the destination, with lots of roleplay along the way, as it would take all day to get anywhere. They would of course need more cargo space to make them actually worth using without jumps.
If barges were ever to go public, their visual size would need to be reduced; a bunch of players flying around with them would get pretty ridiculous. Besides, their size is pretty disproportional to their cargo space. 40,000 cargo, and you could easily fit a hundred pirate transports inside of it.
