This is advance notice of a change that is coming in 4.87. One of the following options will happen:
1) Barges will be prevented from jumping when they are near to a jumpdrive capable ship
2) All ships will be prevented from jumping when they are near to a jumpdrive capable ship.
3) The amount of jump fuel required to jump nearby ships will be proportional to the cargo carried and the system will be weighted to make to economically infeasible to use a jumpdrive to move a barge or any cargo.
The intent of this change is to make jump trading impractical in any of its forms although the minimum goal is to make barge jump trading impossible. I'm posting this to give players some warning so that they can consider the impacts and how they might mitigate them.
I haven't picked which option will happen. Option 2 is the default because it is the easiest to implement but option 3 is my preference if there is sufficient time.
Greetings, i guess the reason...
But there is maybe one more option - enter to mod special registration for the jump ships vs jd 4. I mean point 2, but enter option that only specially registered ships with jd 4 can use JD for move group of ships.
And to remove jump blocking that the only administrators can after RP request leaders of the official fractions or groups. Then will be good RP. Also, that it was possible to establish again blocking if jump ship do violations in RP declared routes and other rules.
Deleting barges wont fix every thing those who paid 2 Billions to purchase a BARGE will be left with nothing rather then wasting cash on something which Admins dont want to be utilized ,its slow speed is a biggest buff , want to buff it more?? cmon make up your mind....because you dont have one doesnt mean you gonna help them delete our stuff ...simply pay the cost back then delete it, really if you want to atleast we wont have any loss in that
I don't see why you don't just keep the Barge, don't give it a slot to hold at Jumpdrive or something that prevents it, and just increase it's speed. I'm sure you'd see more Barges used if they weren't such a death sentence otherwise.
I had never even seen Barges used in 4.85, and suddenly they because useful again in 4.86 BECAUSE of Jump drives. Either delete the ship, or just make it faster/more practical to fly.
(07-26-2013, 03:06 PM)Highland Laddie Wrote: I don't see why you don't just keep the Barge, don't give it a slot to hold at Jumpdrive or something that prevents it, and just increase it's speed. I'm sure you'd see more Barges used if they weren't such a death sentence otherwise.
I had never even seen Barges used in 4.85, and suddenly they because useful again in 4.86 BECAUSE of Jump drives. Either delete the ship, or just make it faster/more practical to fly.
You didn't see them in 4.85 because they weren't publically available, and had only been used for events up to that point if I'm not mistaken.
They made the barge public either shortly before 4.86 or shortly thereafter, but I'm pretty sure they stopped offerering them after a time, so there is only so many barges around.