You mean this?

I'm pretty sure, that he mentioned it in other threads too, but this is only one I knew from the top of my head.

I think any change that makes military bases worth building is a good change. I did actually try these guys but I was never able to figure out how they work, enemy ships never seemed to be impacted by them and my own ships never moved noticeably faster near them. So I gave up trying. 

I think bringing back the stargates from the lore that were how the early wars were fought before humans strapped fusion power plants to hyperdrive and gave the tech to everyone might be worthwhile to investigate. Being able to teleport a fleet from point a to either point b or point c at a cost of 1 move as long as b or c is adjacent to a military ring would be a nifty solution.

But however these existing techs are supposed to work.... I can't figure out how to use them.

As a total aside, I still do have a use for military bases, I build them in irrelevant locations, like the outer wall of the galaxy at the back of my empire, then offer them in trade. Here, have this worthless but mega valuable thing for your best tech and all your money.

Please, would a developer comment? I've been hoping the 1.7 update would finally be the time to get back into GC3, and would have thought surely by then the stacking/range issues would be addressed. Before I consider spending money on Mercenaries or Precursor Worlds, I'd like to know Stardock's intentions... If you aren't going to do something about it, I'll stop wasting my time/money.

Thanks, Taslios.

Frogboy wrote:

"So on the one hand, making engines and sensors consume consume a % of hull space will make the game objectively better.  But on the other hand, if we do it, we’ll upset some people who like having ships that can move 73 moves and some of them will give us negative Steam reviews which will in turn cost us a lot of future sales."

The philosophy behind that comment is pretty disheartening and I sincerely hope it isn't the final word. I remember the upheaval over the wheel and am skeptical that there would be a similar backlash related to the type of changes that have been proposed. What we have here seems far more straightforward and I can hardly see an army of min/maxers rising up and flooding Steam with negative reviews on account of not being able to go halfway across the universe and defeat all their enemies in a single turn. As someone already commented, it's unbalancing to the point that it feels more like a wide-open cheat mode than an intended game mechanic.