jump range

There has been a lot of talk about jump drives, suggestions going this way and that, attempts to optimize surging on youtube, etc. I am pretty sure that the devs would eventually like to close the chain drive loophole. I had some musings the other day, and today just ran with it on wolfram...

Want to see the SM player base increase? Make it not a tooth and nail fight just to move around in vanilla. Let servers downgrade jumps if they want - don't torture new players in vanilla. It's been a while since I visited a multiplayer server with vanilla jumps and nothing to start but the...