Big ol' Barge

[Tapeworms]

Oh man, found these forums after 10 years of not playing...I had a barge, flew it for months. The SSFailboat I called it haha. While, yes, i definitely did OORP silver sellings (although it wasnt TECHNICALLY ooRP) to the french and made BILLIONS, it really really enabled me to enjoy the game, my RL friend and I were able to build a player base (The Event Horizon) and get it going, just the 2 of us with the help of the barge - without the barge we wouldn't have had a snowballs chance in hell of keeping that base stocked well enough to survive. It was how we enjoyed the game, and man did we enjoy it. We've thought about coming back to play again - maybe a little more RP style and not so credit hungry, but flying around in 5k transports is just ..boring.

There's a certain magic when you have a barge and the ability to move massive amounts of resources, granted its a nightmare doing so, it has to be used as a not-so-movable base, I kept it stricty to deep space, no trade lanes, no jump gates, hardly ever really moved it under it's own power. Only used the group jump drive if we were to move it. It really was just a staging ground to dump resources that we could eventually move to a different system, i.e to supply our base.

Anyway, if the massive ore dumps (we'd make half a billion a trip IIRC) arent possible anymore then I say lets bring SOMETHING like it back, 5k is just too small to be your end-game storage. Granted, i'm thinking the game needs(ed) some sort of storage platform..whether it be storage tanks rented from factions, a big ship like the barge that really cant be moved except via jump drives, or a lesser version of a player base thats just used for storage and not manufacturing. Something that can hold a lot of resources either securely in controlled space (like rented from a faction) or at your own risk in deep space. Having a little 'home' or plot of property that was yours, secretly tucked away was just so much fun, for me.

Anyway, sorry for the rambling.

TL;DL - I had a barge, it was amazing, please implement some sort of massive storage platform

-Tape