Ftl superluminal 2.0 mod#

100% longer wind up times when a fleet arrives in a black hole system (so it takes 2x as long to leave).

Not strictly relevant to making the galaxy vaster, but I have a few FTL drive 'flavours' - one where the drives move faster between stars, but take longer to charge and vice versa, or offer increased 'hyper-drift' time/speed on system ingress.

Give FTL more wind up and wind down time (about 2 weeks worth).

Unfortunately its not possible to re-implement the very old functionality of hyperdrives (where they could depart a system from anywhere, or from any edge, not just at the relevant exit triangle) though is working on scripted jump drives, so perhaps the set_location function can be (ab)used to do this.

Add a new 'hyper-drift' function via script (on_enter_system) that boosts Sublight speed by 100/200/300/400% for 7 days (so sublight becomes less of an issue).

Tier 4 drives (jump drive/psi jump drive) - 80% vanilla speed.

Ftl superluminal 2.0 mod#

The solution i've gone with in a personal mod amounts to slowing FTL, indirectly speeding up STL, and doing weird things with bypasses: This is what utterly kills the sense of scale IMO. So you never actually spend much time watching fleets move around the galaxy slowly. You'll find that like 80% of travel time is spent *in system* rather than between stars. But as you mentioned, it feels slower, as in system speed is a killer. If you slow down #1 (making hyperdrives slower) the galaxy feels bigger.

Wind down time (time ships are locked in place upon arrival in a system).Wind up time (time to charge ships to leave system).Interstellar speed (Hyperlane speed between stars).Click to expand.Ive found it boils down to two things: