makes more sense this way IMO, it blocks the connection between your planets unless the ship has a signal or something



as multi said, it takes more time to get through, also, it makes it so people cant scout your systems and see what youre doing



actually it gives more reason, the more info you have before they put the inhibitors up, the better off you are

I thought the WHOLE PURPOSE of phase inhibitors was to make deathtraps for ANYONE! If the AI can't deal with it, it is the AI that should be changed, not the phase inhibitors.

Allies should simply be excluded from phase inhibitor action. I want the old inhibitors back! please?

How aobut the phase inhibitors, rather then totally stopping someone from jumping it quads the time it takes ot make a jump? this would balance the timming and eliminate the need for "it stops them here but not there".

Or have it depedent on anti matter to work, say 1 point for every 5 sec?

I dislike the idea of them only working for certian jumps.. then again what do ya all think?

I agree, while it may help multiplayer then it should be an option that can be turned on or off   



But that is the point!    When an enemy fleet jumps in if they can just retreat if they realize that they are out guned then they just come back with a larger one.

A capital ship jumping in should get killed because thier owner is to much of an idiot to launch a scout in lue of a Fleet! With cap ships costing as much as they do, now with the research, this makes the cap ships a bigger loss when they get blown away!

Now inhibitors can't be the beloved Venues Fly Traps every knew and loved.   

I don't feel it adds more tactics, it actually takes it away.

1. you can't trap enemy fleets who didn't bother to scout.

2. It slowed incursions before because you couldn't jump period, so that is not a legitimate concern.

3. Due to #1. there is less reason to scout because the consequences of a phase inhibitor are nill, bypassing systems isn't usually a good idea.

4. How does it make sense to only affect your lanes... last time I checks laws of physics even fake ones, don't willy nilly care about who owns what lanes!

I think the better solution was as stated an increase in anti-matter cost, and increasing the time it takes to generate your phase jump. This will give you both incursion and escape options sensibly, but you will suffer either way assuming the enemy was smart enough to have some bombers in this Defense system.

That would make sense, as it would represent the fact that for allies and non-combatants you shut off the Inhibitor so that they can jump.

This would work for me.

but it doesn't make any scientific sense, and way more importantly it discourages scouting and takes away the possibility of using the 'stranding' as a tactic. Thus de-complicating tactics.

Yes, in the end it's the gameplay that counts. The pseudoscietific explanation can be found for anything. Even for the weird AM loss when the ships jump.

Not that I can think of any.

Look at it the other way around. You and I need to stop shooting at each other long enough to take out that death trap at planet x. If we don't then we will both lose. The death trap could add a level of forced diplomacy between real players to stop someone who has gained a major advantage.

Well, if that's going in...

Sins of a Solar Empire just got way more boring. I want to deathtrap AI fleets and watch them squirm. It's not my fault they're too stupid to actually do something logical - like make a concerted effort to squish the inhibitor and then make a run for it.

Frankly, it's more of a nuisance pain in the ass than anything else, because it allows your enemies to probe your empire at will. Unless you have like, 10 squadrons of bombers sitting on top of the outside jump point, most ships can retreat without a shot fired at them.


Remember, the point of a game is to have fun, not to be harassed. If any enemy's coming to my doors, he should damned well be ready to fight, and if he's not, he shoulden't get a second chance. This change will just make things really, really boring. Plus, who decides what is "your" system and what isen't? So if I have a star, leading to a habitable planet, leading to a dead asteroid I haven't even bothered to 'colonize', building a jump inhibitor above the inhabited planet is really just a gigantic waste of my time and resources?

I think it's a nerf, pure and simple, and whatever the reason, all it serves is to enable the idiotic AI to run away when they jump in and see a wall of turrets. A player would just go for the jump inhibitor anyway, whereas the AI virtually ignores it unless it's like, the last thing in the system.

Maybe make a system with a phase inhibitor, cause a retreating fleet a phase jump time increase, say make it take 2x as long to retreat jump, as a punishment...