[Mzyxptlk]

The introduction of geography is something I've been interested in seeing for a few years now, but the design and implementation effort required is probably beyond what the volunteers of PA Team can invest. I am also a little concerned that the universe may have shrunk to the point of making it non-viable.

The large differences in ETAs between the classes that OP proposes seems like a bad idea to me.


One overhaul that I would like to see is a simple inversion:

Cr/Bs base ETA: 8
Fr/De base ETA: 9
Fi/Co base ETA: 10

That way, the fleet that you get with minimal research is the slowest, and the one that takes the longest to research is the fastest. It would have little to no impact beyond that.


I also rather like Machado's idea of leveling the travel times. To make that work with the inversion I suggested above, you could increase the base ETA of all fleets by 1, make Hypergate only work for Fi/Co/Fr/De, and add a new travel time research that only works for Fi/Co (call it "Reactor Miniaturization", I'm making this shit up as I go along):

Stargate:
Cr/Bs ETA: 8
Fr/De ETA: 9
Fi/Co ETA: 10

Hypergate:
Cr/Bs ETA: 8
Fr/De ETA: 8
Fi/Co ETA: 9

"Reactor Miniaturization":
Cr/Bs ETA: 8
Fr/De ETA: 8
Fi/Co ETA: 8

That would be a little more work to implement, and some tinkering with the RP cost of travel time research to help Xan, but nothing major.