Jumpgates between systems, the only thing they are are bottlenecks for attacking fleets.
Suggest to redesign the MV without jumpgates ATLEAST to the middle systems.
Make systems a jumpable distance x2 on your average FTL drive?

We will have an interstellar jump drive.
it will be
-more fuel and refuels from 0 to max about the same time as interplanetary
-a lot more energy hungry
-a much longer cool down
-Bigger sig boost when used

On 2010-11-02 01:31, SpaceAdmiral wrote:
lets make 2 devices that share one cool down.
The current drive we will rename interplanetary jump drive.
We will have an interstellar jump drive.
it will be
-faster
-more fuel and refuels from 0 to max about the same time as interplanetary
-a lot more energy hungry
-a much longer cool down
-after jump align it will take 5-15 seconds to charge
-Bigger sig boost when used
-no other weapon or device can be used while charging or aligning

The above makes it ideal for traveling, but bad for escaping or entering combat. Also helps bypass chokepoint gates which serve to promote gatecamping.

On 2010-11-02 19:06, SpaceAdmiral wrote:
@ Kenny
-he wants no jump gate in middle systems because they bottleneck attacking fleets, and thus promote gate camping
-new drives will help fleets to not need to go through gates, and thus the fleet will not be killed by gate campers at the bottle neck

@ Boomshot
-it would be "logical" to have both drives and their fuel if it allows fleets to completely bypass gates. A lot more maneuverability for the fleet
-it is energy hungry, so it won't be used by EADs, ADs, siphons, and stations to jump into combat with it. If used in a noncombat way you should have plenty of energy to spare.
-sig boost matters. Why? If you use this to exit combat you can and will be tracked farther. Second you can give away your and your fleet's position to the enemy.
-The 2 jump drives will share cooldown. That should teach everyone not to use this to enter or escape combat. If you don't like the longer cool down imposed on the interplanetary drive, we aren't forcing you to use it. You could play the whole game without using this interstellar drive or better yet use it in noncombat and not have its longer shared cooldown interfere with your use of the interplanetary drive.

@ Fridge
-wormholes are inaccurate, glitchy, and otherwise not worth it. They also announce your position to everyone in the server looking at the map. Also enemies can use them.

@ Borgie
-umm try to actually READ the post ENTIRELY before trolling?
-If you look at the interstellar jd closely, you will see it is very ill suited to combat escape or entry
-faster injump speed to avoid tracking negated by higher sig, allowing for around the same quality of tracking or better.
-energy hungry. they track you you're dead. Also makes this bad for combat entry
-longer cooldown + shared cooldown=no double jumps. plus this longer cool down again makes it ill suited to entering or exiting combat.
- 5-15 seconds of charging. Yup that will help me get an out of combat freecard. I mean i love charging while my hull is rapidly going down.
- No using devices while aligning or charging. For dreads thats around 5-30 seconds of doing nothing before jumping. For stations its around 5-45 seconds. That will absolutely not help anyone escape combat.

On 2010-11-02 19:06, SpaceAdmiral wrote:

@ Fridge
-wormholes are inaccurate, glitchy, and otherwise not worth it. They also announce your position to everyone in the server looking at the map. Also enemies can use them.