Jump-Drive

[YmerejO42]

Not sure how hard it would be to implement, but instead of a jump drive, how about making a new class of ship that can generate a temporary, unstable jump hole? You can specify generally where you'd want it to come out, but it would be randomized (maybe within 20k or so) as to exactly where it would come out.

Since it would be an unstable one, you couldn't go through in formation, and maybe make each ship wait 3-5 secs after the one before.

For temporary, make it last for maybe 2 minutes, and have a limitation that the jump creator can't go through. That way, when you're ready to go back, it has to create a new jump hole, and then you have to find it. That would lend some stress to raids performed in this manner. If you could have a random timer on how long it lasts, say 30-120 seconds, that would be even better. Half your ships are through, reporting a pitched battle, and the hole just closes on you.

Also make it so that once a hole has been generated, no new ones can be generated in the ending system for, say, 5 minutes. Better than a timer on a ship, since a rich enough force could have 2 or 3 ships to circumvent that. If you know you can only create one hole every 5 minutes, you're gonna be a lot quicker about using it while it's there. Also would prevent a force from using two different systems for an attack. Nothing against spending however long it takes to insert separate forces, then coordinating the attack. Wouldn't help if you wanted to retreat, though.

Also set a limit as to how far (on the Sirius map) it can go, maybe 3 squares, to prevent someone raiding, say Gallia from the Omegas.

Just my two cents, feel free to tear it up however you can.