Hyperspace Drives

[Ironwatsas]

The fuel should also decrease while in your hold like MOX does. Otherwise, I like the idea! It has enough balances to make it feasible though uncommon.

Possible, but that might make it 'too' infeasible. The fuel would be available in a select few (remote and dangerous) areas through mining only. Plus, having to cart it all around or stockpile it might degenerate it to the point where it's not viable. Though it'd certainly be a solution if the devs feel that way.

Also, maybe have these gravity ships also have a secondary use similar to the repair ship but on a lesser scale. That would make them extra nice in a group situation.

Sure, they'd be able to pass out bots/bats, but there isn't a lot of RP precedent for making them that way. But it would encourage their use somewhat more, so it's definately possible.

My first question would be which faction are reasonably considered to have jump drives?

Probably Nomads and the Order, and someone in Gallia, and maybe the BHG core. Any 'high tech' factions with reasonable precedent for owning them, but factions that aren't too 'open' as to flood the market with them. They should be acquirable with difficulty (e.g. an arms dealer would need to be friendly with the order, buy several, sell them at a profit to factions in need.) or through destruction of ships carrying them.

I like this idea, but it sounds like a whole lotta FLHook scripting. Plus, theres only a few actual 'carriers' such as the Geb and the Liberty carrier. But, i can see this being implimented, maybe having the hyperdrive replace the shield or armor, to keep it balanced. You don't want a liberty cruiser jumping right into the middle of a rheinland incursion with 5-6 bombers, it would make things a bit unfair...'
Oh, and you need to actually limit the range. Maybe 2-3 systems away.
As for who has them, Nomad factions, Order, and liberty navy jump to mind.

Replacing the shield? No, that'd be a bit much. Replacing the armor... possible, but the logistics of simply GETTING a hyperdrive and providing fuel for it should be enough to negate it's abuse.

As well, to be able to jump, you need the EXACT coordinates within a system, or just randomly jump and hope you don't appear inside Houston. So a bit of planning is nessescary to make it truely effective. As well, ships that hyperspace in will have their powerplants (and possibly shields) depleted like the cruise engine mod, and it'd take a few seconds to fully translate into and out of hyperspace (like in homeworld) making the ship vulnerable to attack.

As for range... yeah. It SHOULD have a limit, but limiting it too much negates it's strategic usefulness. One idea is to have it consume X amount of fuel proportional to the distance (and possibly size) of the ship, making management of that important in order to jump a mixed fleet of ships (or plan a two-way jump).

If that's too hard to script though, a simple system limit is viable.

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