[deccan]

Space Travel

This has been mentioned before, but I really dislike the "warp point" travel system used in SEIV. My reasons:

1) One of the most fun aspects of SEIV I believe is that it provides a generic system that players can mod into their favorite SF universes. However the most popular SF universes (Trek, SW etc.) use an FTL travel system. Even in B5 with warp points created by big ships, it takes time for ships to traverse from point to point.

2) There's no sense of "deep space" in SEIV, everything is so ... local. The game doesn't really capture the sense that outer space is really huge compared with the scale of solar systems. I believe that in-system travel should take next to no time at all, while interstellar travel would be very, very slow.

3) Like other posters have said, it eliminates heavy defenses at warp points.

4) If you like, make things more interesting by incorporating MOO3-style starlanes (perhaps stick with the original MOO3 idea that they should only be very slightly more efficient than regular interstellar travel at first and only gradually improve with better navigation infrastructure at both ends of the starlane) and stargates.