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

[Snozzz]

Well I do remember, talking USI here, that we resisted jumping our barges till very near the end of the opportunity. So it definitely was not the case that everyone exploited the cash cow. Why did we do it in the end? Simply that we were being left so way way far behind everyone, repeat everyone else financially. Did we use them to trade conventionally before? Sure we did, but not under my leadership. Was that wise (talking about the barge jumping aspect)? No it was totally dumb. It got us no respect or anything else for that mater. So I do conclude, certainly given all the discussion here, that killing them was a bad move. The real question is, what would have been a better move? Well stopping the free sale/exchange of them. They should ony be in the hands of large scale official vanilla trading factions, who can be held to account if they do get abused and who have a right to be filthy rich. In truth that could be said of the game in general ie that credits and equipment can be transferred in such an inappropriate fashion. End that instead.