Ray Kyonhe
Ray's Relentless Research
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Posted - 2014.07.30 08:33:00 -
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Carniflex wrote:
The only difference between hopping a carrier blob around is that you need a bit more preparation as you need to have sufficient hardware present where you are going while with a carrier you are just dragging your pile of crap with you. Even outright removal of jump drives does not prevent an established powerblock having a suitable number of doctrine ships prepared in predetermined locations. Even without jump freighters there are ways of moving large amount of "stuff" around. For example, I have built an outpost 45 ly deep in null without needing to use jump drives for moving the egg and the upgrades through gates or by titan/jump bridges. All it took was a little patience and I was able to find suitable wormholes to move about 6 T1 freighters out there without losing a single one.
This is it. You are missing the vital point. There isn't such thing as total security, but security issues should be attended and it's leve should be kept high enough anyway.
The goal is not remove power projection but make projecting power very daunting and time consuming task. What you described is perfectly acceptable - this will enshure that no one will go to such extent without absolute, crucial need. So no more capital fleet drops out of boredom. From the other angle, if you just to moved all your main forces well beyond your jump drive coverage with some other slower and less convinient, and more risky methods of travel, you can't move them back easly, which opens wide avenues for counterstrike and treacherous backstabs to you own home systems. This won't allow to just controle all space around with your core, trusted blob. You either sit at home and don't project your power, or you are rely totally on diplomatics relations with those allies settled adjacent to your own home - as they should be responsible to protect your home while you are went out to war.
And thats adds to the uncertainty too, as now this allies don't fear so much you too, as you can't project power so well. So if you mistaken their intentions and move your forces out to some distant region and it will need like a weak to relocate them back - they can strike your back, and do this instantly as your home region is in their jump drive coverage.
So dimplomatic and trust issues becomes even more of a problem, and will deliver powerfull shakes to any empire from time to time - which is exaclty what we need.
So, this simple fix will serve two goals at once:
1) Make power projection more tedious and risky and time consuming task
2) Lower stability and shorten lifespan of huge alliances, especially if they try to project their power well beyond (now shrinked) jump drive. coverage,
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