Originally by: Jaabaa Prime

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Here is what I would do about instas.

1) Remove all BMs with 150km of any gate (maybe there is an arguement to do the same to stations).

2) Prevent BMs from being made within 150km of a gate.

3) Add "warp to" and make it really mean "warp to 0km" but have inaccuracy factor of 15km which can be reduced by skills.

Add a new skill "Warp Harmonics" (or something like that) which increases the warp accuracy.
Rank: 3
Pre req:
- Science lvl 3
Bonus: 10% Accuracy per level
No skill: 15km deviation
lvl 5: 7.5km deviation
(reduce travel time at gate)

4) Add skills and ship modules for PVPer which increase deviation.
Skill: "Heisenberg Theory"
Rank: 6
Pre req:
- Science: lvl 5
- Warp Harmonics: lvl 5

Module: "Heisenberg Amplifier"
Decreases the accuracy of navigation systems by exciting the molecular structure of the navigation computer neural network.
Base accuracy decrease: 5%
+ 3% per level of "Heisenberg Theory"

5) Give a "base" 50% bonus accuracy to empire travel in >=0.5 systems when not at war. Increase "safe" travel speed in "safe" systems.
If your corporation or alliance is at war, only skill bonuses apply, the same as they would do in 0.0 space.

6) Add warp "Jump Gate Activation Count Down Timer", e.g. it takes 3 seconds for a jump gate to activate.
If you are warp scrambled at a jump out this time increases by 3 seconds per warp scramble point. Warp core stabs can counter this effect too.

So put it all together:

1&2 - get rid of current instas and stop them from being remade.
3&4 - Increase travel speed based on skills and give it an ability to be countered.
5 - Increase travel speed where it's going to be "safe" any way.
6 - Ships that are trying to MWD through a gate still have to wait a "few" seconds as the gate responds to the activation request.

Just some ideas that I feel are balanced, but others will undoubtably arue with them, and I would hope that it encourages some fruitful and intelligent discussion

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