I think it makes perfect sense. At least it gives sectors the chance to defend themselves.

Busterking said:

Tommy_D08 said:

I think it makes perfect sense. At least it gives sectors the chance to defend themselves.

If you don't want your base fleets destroyed send some fvf in first to clear a path or use escort fleets.

I guess you have not seen it when it's jammed up with warp gate guardians ?  Even with an escort you don't stand a chance, they gang up on you.

When the game accepts more players it will not be playable the way it is.

I disagree, when there are more players there will also be more sectors and thus more warp gates to guard. I think the sectors 100 and 200 are full so it would make it difficult to guard all the gates at the same time.

While I do not really mind about the warp gates, it would be fun if there would be a galaxy map where you can travel to the different sectors instead of going there instantly using warp gates

Busterking said:

We need something different then Warp Gates in space.  We shouldn't be tunneled in one small area, this should be for going to a different universe and called black holes.  

Our ships should travel freely at warp speed where we shouldn't be caught by other ships.

Right now all we have are a bunch of spawn killers waiting at the warp gates with low level harriers jumping the base fleets.

It doesn't make any sense.

Have a narrow band strip surrounding each planet which we can select to travel to solar systems (stars within our own universe) that are further away (which are presently called sectors).

I have a healthy alternative:

What if we have to travel to a warp gate to GO to another sector, but where that warp drops us is not necessary at the warp gate on the other side. For example, when you attack a planet, if you designate your fleet to move to a specific place on the planet they will warp away from your own, move to the planet and warp directly where you want them to locate. However, if you tell them to merely warp to the planet they will automatically distribute themselves somewhere in the planet's atmosphere (and you may have to travel a bit to find your target).

Similarly, the warp gate could essentially be the 'surface' of the next sector and where we actually show up in that sector is either up to us or random depending on whether we selected some place in the next sector or selected the warp gate itself. Of course, to return to our sector we'd have to fly through the warp gate on their side which potentially means fighting our way through but if they don't know who you are they might not realize you are escaping with loot.

As an added bonus, warp gates could potentially be NPC bases with towers and such to protect themselves. Once a warp gate is destroyed it takes 1hr to rebuild. People would obviously do what they can to prevent people from destroying their warp gates. This would be a double edged sword of course - not being able to be attacked by a sector also means not being able to return your ships to home (unless you warp to yet another sector and use that sector's warp gate to warp home...)

I'm of the current warp gate system.  It makes FvF viable and adds an element of challenge and cooperation to raids on other sectors.  By adding a tiered planet gate system it also makes it possible to hit any base in VC within a 5-10 flight.  While warping in an out of sectors would do that as well, it would destroy FvF by making base hitting fleets apear and disappear out of nowhere.  Sometime try tracking a fleet to kill when it enters a planet 5 seconds ahead of you. Its very annoying.

Yiran Feng said:

ambush or snipe at warp gate is pretty common strategy in other games.

however at the moment in VC the limited ship modules or technology is not diverse enough to allow alternative tactis

such as cloaking device, jump drive, command ship, recon ship, warp inhibitor etc...

also, literally, Warp speed is only feasible within a star-system or not-so-far neighbour star

if you travel between 2 sectors of the universe using a warp drive, its gonna take days or years (look at Star trek)

to make sense, the Sector map speed is probably using Warp drive while normal thrusters are use in orbit (planet)

Yiran Feng said:

There is also one possible solution...

all ships that jump out of the gate will remain cloaked (others can not see your fleet) for 10 seconds (moving fleet might de-cloak you instantly, or not)

So what you are saying.. is you want to play EVE online

right now the gate work and work well. currently there are 3 gates you can use to warp if your being killed in FVF you should get smart and send your FVF fleets through first and if they die get better. 

RAPTOR 94 said:

right now the gate work and work well. currently there are 3 gates you can use to warp if your being killed in FVF you should get smart and send your FVF fleets through first and if they die get better. 

i do see their being a need for more gates in the future should being cluster f**ked simply due to massive numbers of fleets moving around become an issue, for now the gates work and work well. 

You are entirely wrong. The gates do not work well. When the population increases there will be barricades on both sides and no one from either sector will ever move. And you say 'get better'? Well guess what, the enemy will be doing that as well. There is a term for what happens when you both reach perfection: Mexican Standoff. Another term: No Fun.

Yiran Feng said:

ambush or snipe at warp gate is pretty common strategy in other games.

however at the moment in VC the limited ship modules or technology is not diverse enough to allow alternative tactis

such as cloaking device, jump drive, command ship, recon ship, warp inhibitor etc...

also, literally, Warp speed is only feasible within a star-system or not-so-far neighbour star

if you travel between 2 sectors of the universe using a warp drive, its gonna take days or years (look at Star trek)

to make sense, the Sector map speed is probably using Warp drive while normal thrusters are use in orbit (planet)

This isn't Eve

Curtis Smale said:

So I think I'll personally be sticking to my own sector or hitting 300 (since the gate is significantly closer)

It would be nice if the star systems rotated relative to the warp gates. I did notice that 500 is open now, which is a lot closer, but unfortunately they're level 5 and below so far.

RAPTOR 94 said:

i think buster is **** hurt 

You do make a nice farm.... LOL

RAPTOR 94 said:

any one can farm anyone with longbows armed with torpedoes, tis no big feat worthy of bragging rights

So your bragging rights are defeating a base fleet with a fvf fleet ?  LOL

Those stupid torpedoes will keep you in a bubble for a while.... LOL