The Barge

[worldstrider]

Tinkerbell, your post is made of a 150% win, you just made we want to fly a barge!

In either case yeah, i tried flying this in single player; Let me put it to you this way, you can turn a battleship round 5 times by the time this thing does a 360 turn... Oh, let's not go into the cruise engines.

Here's the flip side...flying it is like "solitaire in space". It keeps you fully occupied and really requires you to focus on what you are doing (no autopilot while you go eat dinner). So it has a reward of its own. I'd liken it to being a "Goodyear Blimp" pilot. Not a combat or high performance craft in any measure but a class of its own. Other comparisons would be to a supertanker or carrier captain. Its rewarding to make it somewhere and you have a chance to chat a lot as people will contact you (that's a problem in a tricky nav situation though). Have some nav presets keyed...particularly, "Stay clear of us while docking", "Use the next trade ring please" and "we will fire if you continue to collide with our hull--back off."

It is very frustrating when hostile players are on you and the issues happen. That and the spinning are the most maddening and you really learn where NOT to go so you don't get stuck. I think it would be great if they would create a commodity item that takes up the entire hull but sells for a fortune. Heh. Maybe "Class XVIII" armor would be nice;)

JSF-greyhound ?

As for the name--my char got corrupted some when they beamed me in and out. I have a thought as to why and will talk to admins shortly about it. When I can get that resolved, I'll rename it "Mistral Wind" (actually has two French related meanings and I am a Heart fan so perfect for me).

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