[Space] FTL Ideas/Thoughts

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Originally Posted by ericthered

Its a real speed multiplier? that's an interesting detail. Now I see why you thought 5^X was too shallow-- you want to be able to get where you are going!

I suggest moving up another notch, and making the permanent portals FTL-4 or even FTL-5.

My primaly planning puts the most well traveled parts of human space a bubble 15 light years radius, this is pretty much the extent of the portal network. That works out to 0.12 ly or 7,600 AU once you treat the velocity multiplier as a distance contractor, so things aren't TOO dire. Now, there's colonies out for something like another 5 ly which are only serviced by FTL-2 equipped ships, now that's .2 ly or something like 13,000 AU to the nearest portal