Warp Drive

[Aussie Gamer]

I was just watching Babalyon 5 and had a thought.

Why can't ships jump to non connected system using a warp drive.

Say tech 1 would jump 50 light years, cost 1000 supplies to use and needs to regenerate over a turn, as per Organic armour. Make it 300 kton size as well.

This would ensure that only the largest of ships could use it effectively.

Any thoughts?

[raynor]

It is an interesting idea.

You can create sort of the same effect by including a wormhole creation ship and a wormhole destruction ship in the same fleet. (Or, put them both on the same ship, of course). This is fun to do. Open a wormhole from your empire to an enemy system, send your entire fleet through, then close the wormhole behind you.

It's really unfair to the AI, of course but fun nonetheless.

The main thing you lose doing it this way is that, unlike B5, fighters can't go through wormholes.

[Aussie Gamer]

I know that you can do that but I suppose that I was thinking that it would be good to have a component that just moves you to another system without opening a wormhole.

I have done the open and closing trick on the AI, it never seems to do any stellar stuff!

[raynor]

Lately, I've started turning off the Stellar Manipulation research area after I noticed that the AI seems to research and build SM ships but never use them.

[phalen]

you want a REALY dirty trick aginst the ai build star destruction ships that are cloaked... send in a minsweeper through their galixys first and followed by a bunch of those clocked torpedo ships... and the ai is toast... just tryed that recently... had around 50 of them throughout the ai's systems... destroyed the ai in less then 3 turns... blew every star in every system they had a planet.. rather expedous extermination... heh

[RWittman]

Hey Phalen, Here's an idea for you, Next time try pulling the wings off the AI first or you could dunk the AI in water and put it in the freazer. Jees!