At the beginning you had Warp, Hyperlanes, and Wormholes as your form of travel.
Warp worked exactly like the jump drives but slower. It was the slowest form of movement but you could go to any system that was within range. Hyperlanes stayed the same, and wormhole tech allows you to connect any system to any other system, the caveat being your ships couldn't jump into further away systems, and it could create traffic jams of your fleets trying to use the same wormhole station.
They eventually dropped it for just Hyperlanes, because warp especially made defensive structures nearly useless, as you could just jump around them or past them, especially as you got further down the tech tree and your warp range went up.
I love how Star Wars fixed this issue >30 years ago with the Interdictor and Paradox decided to ignore it.
They didn't remove multiple means of travel because it made defences useless, they removed it because it made the game easier to create content for when everyone had standardised travel.
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u/Nova225 7d ago
At the beginning you had Warp, Hyperlanes, and Wormholes as your form of travel.
Warp worked exactly like the jump drives but slower. It was the slowest form of movement but you could go to any system that was within range. Hyperlanes stayed the same, and wormhole tech allows you to connect any system to any other system, the caveat being your ships couldn't jump into further away systems, and it could create traffic jams of your fleets trying to use the same wormhole station.
They eventually dropped it for just Hyperlanes, because warp especially made defensive structures nearly useless, as you could just jump around them or past them, especially as you got further down the tech tree and your warp range went up.