We're considering the future of the barge of the mod in this mod. I would like to hear opinions from the community as to what we might do with this ship.
The barge was introduced to provide a base ship for factions. Now factions can have actual dockable bases and so this reason is no longer necessarily valid.
The current problem is that the barge is more or less unbalanced with respect to the economy.
We have at least one or more of the following options:
1) Do nothing.
2) Reduce its cargo capacity.
3) Reduce its cargo capacity and massively increase its armour.
4) Remove its cruise engine (jumping and very slow normal engines only)
5) Prohibit barges docking at structures that are too small (i.e. allow docking only at mooring points)
6) Prohibit barges docking at anything. This means that two people are needed to use a barge; a player driving a freighter or transport to load/unload the barge and the barge player.
7) Increasing its cargo capacity and reducing its armour.
I could imagine doing something like
- option 4 only
- option 5 only
- option 4 and 6.
- option 7 and 4 and 6
- option 1
What other options are there? What combinations? Your thoughts please?
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