Vary the ship speeds more. Reduce capital ship and heavy cruiser speeds and increase light frigate speeds. It would make for more strategy and completely change the nature of commitment to fights. Alignment for jumping should be more strict as well. My point is to reduce the cat and mouse engagements a bit. At present if you start to lose a fight you can just retreat without much consequence. Retreating is well and good and should be a valid option but I don't think it should be as easy as
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[quote]Tbh, there should be speed differences in the ships... Your standard light frigate should be significantly faster than your capital ships. This would make for more strategy in fleet formations.Erm, there's quite a range of ship speeds - from 400 to 1000.Cap ships have top speeds of 500, apart from the colony Caps, which only manage 400 (slowest ships in the game).Light frigates do 800, so they are significantly faster.When ships are in a formation, they move together at the speed of the
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Tbh, there should be speed differences in the ships... Your standard light frigate should be significantly faster than your capital ships. This would make for more strategy in fleet formations.
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