As someone who is currently soloing the game on alpha, if they nerf transport, which is the only viable revenue stream, I'll probably just drop game. 

I have about 49 days left on my primary account (out of 105) and I find myself logging in less and less due to the titanic grind to do *anything*, I'm already debating whether I'll just buy darkspore with my re-sub money and disappear since it appears to have much more accessible and dynamic pvp out of the box (and this *is* a pvp game, it's why most of us are here, not to play virtual trucker).

This is after I considered getting year subs for 3 accounts.  I like a lot of the stuff that the dev's are doing, but for every 3 or 4 great changes they make (for everyone) they make 1 really terrible one that hurts non-'endgame' corp players and the big stuff is *slow* in coming. 

This kind of thing coupled with horrendous lag/spikes/disconnects due to having made a very poor (in my opinion) choice for server location makes it hard to sustain subs for people not in the immediate vicinity of Budapest and/or Europe (although the forums have plenty of complaints about server issues from them as well).

I'm glad to see that they're finally doing a little advertising but if they can't keep players it does little good to have a revolving door.

Cerp, there are 5 possible T2/T3 missions starting from ICS alpha and 4 more at Galoley (6 but one goes to beta). Being able to do 7 (parr assignment 6 is a reasonable EP, level 7 isn't worth the 32k for that last assignment) gives you those 2 additional missions (~80k more) you can pick up and makes the T2/T3 much better.

The faction ammo for the T2/T3 does sell for more, if anyone is buying. The larger volume of T1 ammo from mass transport missions makes the market a little better too for T2 ammo.

Logistics specializtion 5, for 10% more, will also yeild more on the T2/3 with those 2 extra assignments.

To be fair though, on the T1 missions, with 7 assignments, you can also make more NIC.

Once rep is maxed out, T1 missions are less stressful. But as an industry player, I find myself moving materials between the level II outposts anyway, so I integrate the assignments into the travel (which slows the moving down, but provides a tangible reward).

TLDR; T2/3 transports don't directly pay more, but have more potential uses, while T1's are better for straight NIC grinding.

We went through a similar exercise before in another thread about cargo expanders. What it boiled down to was basically;

The speed reduction would be from two things, the penalty and the mass of the module, so there wouldn't really be a need to make a specific penalty, the tiered items would just be lighter.

The soft cap for any expander is 99.9U without requiring a change to transport missions. changing the missions is a different arguement, but is currently a restraint that needs to be worked within ( beta transport is 2x 50U, doing it in one trip would make it seriously over compenstated).

So, modules would need to be unique or be very heavy and limited to a fixed size of 19.9U or 24.99%; but the % unit would become very OP on the larger bots like the Lithus so more likley just a fixed size.

About the only time this would be useful is if you had 99 U to haul, and it saved you 1 round trip. For sustained transport missions, the loss of speed wouldn't matter because it wouldnt be useful for the beta run and the T2/3 full load is less than 80U. In mining ops, a single 80U seq can run continually and stay ahead of the mining team, and if its a big team, than 1 Lithus can do the job faster than with 1 240 U trip than 2.4 99.9 U trips even if its slower.

TL;DR - Cargo is probably the best balanced bots in the game, it could be improved of course, but it would need to be analzed for the impact it would have on all areas of the game.

sure it would became quite benefical...

we got corpmates, alts or simple, more runs for that

and soon a lithus.

btw, did someone ever told you that your name sounds similar to the german word for "loser" ?