' Wrote:I would just like to point out that barge jumptrading is not broken. You can make more money over time jumping trains. This is especially true with the jump drive accuracy nerf.
Yup. Before the jump accuracy nerf I have to admint, barge-jumping was the way to go. Now if you're 30-100k out from your target, the travel time + dock time (assuming there aren't any NPCS, in which case if there are you're not docking, repeated F1s to get them to despawn etc..) 5ks are faster. We actually stopped moving our barge itself once this jump nerf hit, I just get my friends to ferry with their 5ks. 4 runs with 2 5ks is faster than 1 run with the barge. Way faster.
..This is also assuming we're trying to dock the barge at a open station, not a planet, not something in an asteroid/cloud field, those places are just off-limits and require ferrying to start with.
So honestly, the jump nerf has already made it so the barge is just a floating space station. No way in heck we're going to wait 2 hours for it to move 100k and dock with a station when we can spend 30 minutes ferrying. If you really want to make sure it doesn't move much cut the cruise engines all-together, 25m/s forward or back, thats it. But increase the cargo to make it more inline with a base. A base is 1/25th the size of a barge, but can hold 12 times more???
/rant on: Plus, I have to say this becuase its sooo obvious and really detracting from this topic. You trollers that are just pissed off you don't have a barge and therefore call for it to be removed/nerfed into non-use, just stop posting, please. You're contributing nothing but blind biased hate. And even if you do have 'valid' points, they're wrong. Like people saying more guns would help, even if it had 10000 guns it would still be impossible to hit anything because the size of the ship throws off the targeting reticle so bad, if you've actually flown a barge you'd know this. People think they're way better than they are because they look so good on paper. Fly one first. /rant off
So in conclusion, IMO as a barge pilot, keep the jump accuracy nerf (grr) increase the cargo or armor (or both) and get rid of the cruise engines all-together, that should make it more of a 'mobile space station' although i do like the idea of having to get someone to tow it to move it.....
