the Barge

[Zukeenee]

the entire ship still has a very disadvantagous shape - long, wide and many large extensions.

Do these have roughly the same effect that the current Barge's extensions had? On the current Barge, you can just barely fit the thing through lanes and gates, if you're really careful about it. These new extensions look a bit bigger to me. Will then catch on any edges?

- decrease shielding to actually freighter / fighter

I'm not so sure about this. Sure, you'll be boosting the ship's armor up to incredible levels to compensate for it, but I still feel that this thing needs a transport shield. It just doesn't seem right to put such a low-class shield on the biggest moving thing in Sirius. After all, even the most powerful transport shield can be taken down rather quickly by the bombers and gunboats which are most likely to be attacking a Barge.

- change the 3 turrets to lvl8 gunboat turrets ( for anti bomber missiles )

The idea of having missile turrets on this thing... well, would be nice, but that's not for me to decide. But what do you mean by "the 3 turrets?" The current Barge appears to have 7 turret slots. Will this new one have only 3, or are you just suggesting that 3 of the 7 turrets be class 8?



And as for the model itself, my only issue is with the texture. It looks like it's going to have that "roughness" that most non-vanilla textures seem top have in-game. I'm sure there's some technical term for it, but I don't know how to explain it properly. On the current Barge, though, there are no such problems with the texture. It's just very... plain.

---