Guys please ignore
@Incap he/her clearly does not seem to want to benefit to the thread.
I kind of get why he is angry, you guys (or at least Two) seem to have not been reading his posts. Ace all you are doing is trying to further antagonize incap and make the issue even worse, could I respectably ask you to refrain from such in the future since that line has made you on the level of incap (you are detracting from the thread to harass incap implying that incap is trolling or otherwise). Please in the future think before you post, if you are going to post something like that it is better to not post at all.
Ace you are made for the factions forum. Should really think about getting more active in there.
Now that line seems to be innocent enough but the connotations implied are that I'm calling you passive aggressive and a cancer to the community. (No offence to the guys in factions who don't go too far, just the ones who detract from the fun of the game) It doesn't matter if you intended to or not but that is what you did.
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Now back on topic. Keep FTL as a mode of transport all this stuff about warp intercepting is just a pain and completely unneeded. The point of FTL is to reduce the time we have to spend just travelling so we can be doing more "active" things. Like mining, fighting, building or simply gathering some friends to cruise about in game. 99% of the time you will not be in FTL, the entire concept of FTL is just an ugly sore we need to make the game a bit more realistic (ie better universe scale) and fun (no 500km walks).
Of course even for FTL (in this case is it the hyperdrive? since the other two are instant ) you need balancing mechanics and etc but it is not the highlight of the game. I'm partial to "warp scramblers" like Two said (doing a face-heel turn towards Incap's original suggestion), so we cannot have capital ships jumping directly to large bases necessitating the need for some escorts while the capitals make the walk of doom towards the base.
Having space hazards obtain a similar effect (like a future "gas giant" sector or a "real" nebula) would be great as well, allowing areas of space hyperdrive using ships could not enter.
I just consider the idea in the OP to be a gimmick while indirection is a decent idea the "warp tunnel" stuff just seems unnecessary. You shouldn't be trying to jump in a fight at all. KISS (keep it simple stupid) is the rule here.
There is more but again, if you guys can't read all of incap's small (albeit heated) posts I don't believe you'll read even past the first paragraph. Even then only a small substrata will bother to respond point for a point and not just nitpick at a little thing they dislike (or flame me about standing up for the irritable incap, seriously guys you are feeding the fire.) The general quality of the posters in suggestions is low enough that sometimes I wonder why I bother.
