Barge use in the modern age.

[Levenna]

Without lanes the barge is basically useless.

Say it takes you 3 hours to ship cardamine from Malta to Manhattan, 30k in cargo, which isn't *too* far off the mark, it may be a little shorter tbh, iirc our barge convoy during the event took more like 2 hours. But we'll go with 3, to be conservative.

That's still an hour *less* than it would take you do to the same round trip 6 times in a 5ker, which is a 40 minute round trip at its absolute fastest, 240 minutes total in a utopian world where you somehow smash that run every time. I'm sorry but the math on this statement does not check out.

"But what about interception?" Hire an escort. You also have battlecruiser levels of hull and battlecruiser turrets.

That trip took 5+ hours one way. Also 12 escorts.

On event level bonus.

If you’re going to reason, use truth.

The same 5 hours can have 12 runs done each way in a 5k.

ah, I missed this when it was posted. My bad. My recording was 1 hour 48 minutes long, I missed the half hour at the start and I died in colorado. I sincerely doubt Colorado and New York took three hours. I'm sorry but I do not know what you're referring to lol

Edit: Bear in mind there was also a solid 20 minute fight with DTR in Theta, too.

Edit 2: My DSace shows that I logged at about 19:05pm. This was just before/at the beginning of the fight in Theta, I died at 21:45 in Colorado, so my main recording started very late. Bear in mind the detours to fight LN and DTR, the last blue of the DTR fight was 20 minutes after I logged, and yes, my original 3ish hour statement/estimate was correct. I can post *the entire* log here if you really want, but if you're going to accuse someone of not telling the truth, you'd better make damn sure you're right lol. This is also demonstrating the barge in its probably worst current use case of extreme long hauling when there are mostly lanes as an alternative. There are a plethora of other options such as base supplying that have been brought up in this thread.

Also, 12 cardamine runs cannot be done in 5 hours, I did 38 runs during the event in a 4.3ker and I was logged overall for almost two days, I would love to know what route you're using for this since I only got intercepted a grand total of ~four times.

Edit 3: Also, the barge convoy used a route 2 jumps longer than the actual optimal route for the event (Alpha -> Tau 37 -> Tau 23 -> Tau 31 -> Leeds -> Magellan -> California -> New York -> Pennsylvania) so you can cut off even more time compared to the barge convoy, especially given the California jump gate is a lot closer to the Penn gate than the Colorado one is.

tl;dr, if you're going to debate this, please stop pulling numbers out of thin air and actually check/back up your statements.

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