So in the end, Barge / Corvo changes - useful or no?

[Laura C.]

Maybe, but things may change. Like you said, there were times when you could make billions per day with barge, it was even possible to use trade lanes in past. Yet, during this golden age of powertrading (and later jumping powertrading), no one from staff did anything with it. Ship was removed in times when it was used only either as additional storage space for POBs, or flown by enthusiasts which liked it. Because if you were after powertrading, 5ker and broken ore routes were much profitable and easier choice and you did not have to go through painful flying when NPCs bumped you every time and turned you, and even more painful docking which sometimes took like twenty or thirty minutes (especially when NPCs were bumping you), not to mention encounters with pirates which asked tens of millions of credits.

By the way, the new model looked like container ship and not like space base as the first model, I never understood that if intention was not trading ship.

Anyway, as you can see in this thread, people want that ship because it´s special and people like to be special. All issues are just about set up. Are you afraid it will be abused? Make it SRP again. Are you afraid it can still be abused for powertrading? Decrease cargo space to 30k or the cruise speed. Are you afraid it will be abused for POBs? Make a rule that every barge which will be found/reported docking there will be deleted after first violation. Considering the prices which people paid/will pay for them, they will think twice before doing it. And so on.

Barge is pain to fly but some people love it, so why not bring it back when there is demand for it.

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.