In light of past comments and Jeff_L's idea, I propose this for Transdimensional Warping.

1. To warp, you need a Capital Ship with a Trans Warp Aura. Considering a TWA is FC-locked, you also need a FC.

2. The squad must be within 500 distance of the FC for 30 seconds while the TWA charges.

4. After jumping, all squad members are greeted with a Trans Warp Exit Aura, which will reduce shield, regen, damage, and speed by 50% for 30 seconds. All squad members will also be left with only 10% of their energy, but that won't be affected by the aura. All players that made the jump will be sitting on the warp that the players would have normally AP'ed through if they were APing.

5. You cannot jump to:
- Hostile owned galaxy
- galaxy owned by warred team
- galaxy owned by a team that warred you
- if one member meets the war criteria, the whole squad cannot warp to that galaxy

The reason for preventing warps to enemy space is so that people can't completely circumvent border galaxies. Normally a PvB squad would be forced to sneak through (usually after dying once, thanks to exploiting the PvP aura) without being noticed. This must be repeated until the desired destination has been reached, and in the process players may lose durability/become scattered and risk detection.

With the warp function they can just skip straight to the target and strike, possibly dying once thanks to the negative aura (if at all). It seems to completely go against the concept of things like Warptastic drones.

PvB squads could still warp right next to a border galaxy if they so wish, but they'd still be required to either steamroll everything or 'sneak' somewhere.

There's also the issue of ultra-harsh debuffs unfairly penalizing normal usage, unless you can code different affects depending on the jump target.

I have no problem with any negative aura / effects like this. I don't think placing them on the wromhole is a good idea, though. They will be placed out far away from planets / suns.



This seems too restrictive, and not needed if you're having negative effects like loss of shields and energy from warping.

Jeff, whilst we're on the subject of adding cool new things could we also have This?

It'd be one of those things that encourages active play, rather than just dragging a MC fleet commander to runs.

I felt like this would be something about seers with warp 5. Guess not.

Ships can Transdimensionally warp from one galaxy to another in 2 different ways. Both ways require a warp beacon on in the destination galaxy that is owned by the player, his team, a squad member, or a friendly NPC faction.

Anyone can use a Transdimensional Warp Device that will work with Large Warp Beacons. Large Warp Beacons are permanent drones and can only be placed in galaxies where permanent drones are allowed. The idea is that teams will tend to place them in their owned territory and at their outposts. NPC teams will also have Large Warp Beacons available for players to use nearby some popular locations.

Fleet Commanders can use the Fleet Transdimensional Warp Device as described in the class super item proposal. This one is different in that it requires Fleet Commander skill, will bring along nearby squad mates with the Fleet Commander, and can also warp to Portable Warp Beacons, which are temporary drones and can be placed by squad members in many more locations.

Some restrictions on warping are that the warping ship must be at full shields and must be at least 1000 distance away from the nearest planet or sun. Warping takes off 50% of a ships shields. The ship initiating the warp must have Astral Travel skill equal to the number of jumps to the new galaxy.

The interface for this will be a pop up box with the choices of where a person can warp to when he attempts to use the Transdimensional Warp Device. If he currently has a galaxy selected on the galaxy map, then that galaxy will be first on the list.