I won't quote the above post due the unnecessary wall of text that would be created from it, but here's my opinion:
Yes, the idea of having a dedicated jumping ship, separate from the barge transport itself, would be a pretty good idea. This would prevent easy solo powertrading with barges, combined with also needing a person to transfer goods from the barge to a base; this would encourage having more player interaction and roleplay.
That's a great idea from you, Govedo, and I would like to see developers use that idea in the next update; I cast my "vote" in support of this.
But I'm not so sure about the rest of the ideas beneath that, requiring that barges be registered and labelled. This would discourage everyone from ever wanting a barge, as they would be constantly pirated, and no escort could protect them. When a person makes himself that obvious of a target, people would check chat lists and hunt down barges for easy piracy, since a barge is so enormous that anyone can easily destroy it before escorts could kill the pirate (assuming the pirate isn't flying a light fighter).
