BARGE

[aerelm]

even factions with "4300 max cargo" can buy and fly one correct?

Note: Your ID may preclude the purchase of a Barge.

If your ID has any form of restriction (cargo limit, etc) which would conflict with owning a 30k transport on it, you'd need to SRP it as you would with any other ship that exceeds the limits of your ID (the SRP, even if successful, would not bypass the purchase fee of the Barge).

The only exception to this are the pre-existing Barges that were handed out as event rewards.

Why a Restart ship? Why not Bargify a ship of your choice?

Some restart reps are pretty bad & opening up the rep sheet flying a Barge with
the whole Impulse Speed of 25 will be a right old pain, we'd need another 10 years
Skorak to put them back the way we had them in the first place.

You can fix up your rep & navmap before requesting a Barge, but needing the ship itself to be a standard restart loadout is just to streamline the Bargifying process, since that'd be more consistent on the green side to conveniently edit without having to cross-check loadouts and double-check for conflicts, etc.