Phase Gate Vasari

Use or abuse? Using them is easy, just build them and you can travel between any two gates, including the temporary effect from the marauders level 6 ability, the best flagship in the game btw.

To abuse them, simply fill up your tactical slots with phase gates after researching returning armada, take them off autocast, let your fleet points get near full, and with them all selected, re-enable autocast. Don't try this if your computer already hurts btw, it will suck as you lag your ass out of commission.

Yup, if you build up two Gates, all your ships will use the "way" between the two Planets as there is a Phaselane.

bug=tradeships only get one credit for distance when trading

MAJOR plus= you can fill a desert planet with refineries and a phasegate and you get huge amounts of metal and crystal

also, if you manage to get a foothold in an enemy system, you can build ships while warping in your armada. if you manage to get two planets, you can generally build ships faster than your opponent can kill them

I thought jumping into an other System doesent work?
That would be a cool upgrade but tooooo powerfulllllll

I gotta say that was the lamest invention yet, I thought it would work like a stargate maybe the next civilization will have one.

I really think there just messing with us they put a stargate in the game but it doesn't work like it's suppose to.
  

its really sucky as it is graphically at least, it just sits there, and no ships actually go THREW it, AND it should be like 5x bigger than its current size...

I like it as it is, because it is difficult to get 40-80 Ships through a Gate and watch out that noone fells out of it

What do you mean by both comments?

he means the gate sucks as it is... the only plus I can see, is that it can be built ANYWHERE in the gravity well... making the entire gravity well have the ability...

It perhaps should be more of a radial array, since it really isn't a gate, and nothing goes through. It really just manipulates the entire gravwell.

It should also be limited to 1 per system IMO

is there a benefit to having more than 1 per system?

Returning Armada spamming.

If there are two then it becomes twice as hard to hit the gate/s fast enough before reinforcements are sent.

nice

was that intentional? would seem stupid if it leads to ppl stuffing their hinterland systems with phase gates just for that tech.

I'm pretty sure that tech will be modified, since it makes it possible to go way past the fleet cap and pretty much makes the game unwinnable for the other guy.

How so? At least for me (with them on auto), nothing spawns if you're already past your limit when it casts. The most it did was get to -6 for me by spawning a bit bigger group than I had supply left for.

-300 for me

ah ha! so it did work, I wondered why I was at -6 ship cap

well, truth be told, I didnt even know how all those ships got here, before I read the forums. I think annatar meant you could disable the autocast on the gates, build until your fleet cap is depleted, then use the ability and get a huge malus on it. I managed to get - 130 and didnt even try to exploit it, it just happened, I may have a replay or save if you dont believe it.

What he said I think I read someone's post that they got to some very high negative fleet cap by doing this.

Guilty as charged! -1066 with four planets under my control.

I had about 7 phase gates, and didnt even try to abuse it, but they ended up spamming out about 500 fleet supply of ships, of which 300 was negative!

hmmm, never had that happen

yeah, that should be fixed.