Economy / Barges - Ores storage capacity

[Sally]

If Barges are sufficiently viable for powertrading that they are becoming a problem for PoB storage purposes, that means the Barge is too good as that implies it is out-performing 5Ks, which is not the intent.

The reason powertrading is feasible with Barges has been mentioned by Couden, not a lot of people bothers to pirate or bother barges because they either don't give a sh*t about getting killed or will F1 before getting caught, they may be easy targets but with the current player count, they will keep disconnecting out of scan range the moment they suspect someone is after them, some imbecile got sanctioned for doing that several times recently.
I can guarantee you, nothing of value will be lost if Barges are gone, not with the current activity, I hope the economy rework makes them even more useless to the game as a whole as well.
Also, since Couden mentioned it, even if the dev team decides to keep them around, i think it would make sense if these at the very least dropped a part of the loot when getting shot down, as far as I know, other regular transports do drop ~3K cargo when killed.

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