Barges

[Chenzo-]

How I see it:
- Economy reworking (albeit unfinished), which makes average routes and especially the pob refinery tied ores even more valuable than before
- Potential to see Barges just cruise next to lanes/places with adequate cruise speed but very long cruise up time is a very good change which may as well happen (since they're clearly not just leaving it like this, duh). You all were flying ships twice a Battleship size around lanes. It was stupid, at the very limit of trade lanes size restrictions and overall wonky. It is ten times more enjoyable if you can just cruise with your Barge then.

Imho if somehow possible without breaking balance dynamics (even with full stop engine kill), I'd even like to see Battleships unable to lane and have adjusted cruise behavior instead.

Some of this is a good point, but in order for this to be fair, other game mechanics will need to be reverted.

Cloaked cruising or going near another player is now broken making cloaking in the first place pointless.

So, fix that.

Then you get to add 350(or more) cruise speed, put cargo capacity back to 40,000.

Barges can jump full of cargo...

Problem solved!

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