Gravity warhead, phase disrupters.

There is a building you can make that blocks phase jumping out of the sector. Also, Some capital ships have the ability to disable other ships from entering phase jumps. Look into it

If they're that afraid of you then you don't have much to worry about it if the Cap comes back into the system. Let them run.

I admit though, I liked it better when Phase Inhibitors blocked jumps and once a force was sent to a inhibited world it was committed to at least blow the inhibitor up.

Yeah, frequent phase jumping is annoying. What I don't understand is why phase jumps (without the upgrade) consume 100 antimatter, yet you can still jump away with 0 antimatter.

Exactly! When playing TEC I try to pursue a fleeing ship to the next sector but when I get there I never have enough antimatter to disrupt them again.

So far when playing against friends, the second they arrive in a new sector while fleeing they immediately turn around and jump back (hence the passing each other while phasing)

Schod,

If you're refering to the PJI, it now increases jump charge time (from opening the white window to actually jumping) to 250% of normal. I'm pretty sure that means 25 seconds.

I've seen a lot of ships get away under the new PJI rules (even scouts), but combined with Ion Bolt (each time they're Ion Bolted it resets their jump charge), I can keep a ship from jumping for a good minute and a half at least. That's usually sufficient.

The good news is that the charge slowdown applies regardless of whether they're jumping to another one of your grav wells.

cause they dont have one.

ok, that sounds good

although I still believe there should be some sort of increase for allied planets, because as it stands it does absolutely nothing to keep your enemy from skirting your planets like it was originally supposed to.
the original use of the PJI was to force enemies to at least lose some ships by plunging head first into your defenses.

well think about it, tech 4 is ~ 30 minutes into the game, maybe shorter. anything before that and you start choking out some pretty unique strategies, which I generally find an unacceptable sin.

there are a couple reasons I disagree with this, but I'll go with my most prominent one, one I can give an anecdote for:


retreating is not an issue because:

the only ships you should be concerned about stopping from a retreat are the cap ships, your enemy can replace frigates rather easily in just about anything but EXTREMELY early game, and frigates far far far exceed the speed of capitals, as a result if your enemy needs to retreat because he's going to lose his capital you should have the speed and the firepower to take him down if you have a handful of frigates lying around. as a result even chasing your enemys through different gwells shouldnt pose an issue for you, unless of course your enemy has an absurdly high amount of health, in which case you werent going to get him anyway.

I've assassinated many a capital ships using the technique of popping out from behind and giving chase through neutral gravity wells (if you dont get him the pirates might!) just ask my good friend the great emperor, I pulled off a real epic assassination against one of his level 5 marzas once, god that was one amazing battle   

and if that fails just ally yourself with a vasari, or get an akkan so that you can paralyze him!

YEA! Screw the capital ship! Let him run!

Well they're capital ships after all... I usually dont even try, they're not supposed to be the kind of ship you can just pop quick even with lots of ships. If i go in a system and they decide to retreat, so be it. When they engage and decide to fight seriously, i havent found that hard to blow em up during the battle, it's not like they just retreat right away.I blew up 2 or 3 of em in the same battle yesterday, and i lost 1. When i imagine a capital ship i think about the Galactica, not just an oversized frig.

Jump inhibitors wont help with your star issue.

Have you tried large numbers of carriers? A wall of frigates probably wont do jack diddly, but strike craft can generally intercept stuff booking it through a well. I had a fleet sitting in the enemy solar systems star well, the 30 advent carriers and support took quite the nice chunk out of the ai fleets as they ran through to hit my other systems. Not having defense on your planets just isn't an option, and not having a fleet somewhere close is just as mandatory. After they got through in a depleted manner, they got the chew on full tactical slot planets with a smaller fleet running them down if they were too much for the defenses to easily handle.

I do miss the pji's blocking incursions though.

i say they should stop them from jumping further into your empire if okay pay attention lets say they attack planet b now planet a only has one rout to it through planet b if you build a disrupter on both planet b and a they cant jump to a because duel disrupters this would work abit better and still give retreat a chance but the disrupter should slow retreats away from your territory i say add in 30-50% longer and thus you lose ships if you send a massive fleet to attack no matter what even if you just turn around immedetly you still lose a light ship or two.

this way we please all sides of this lil discussion.