Jump Cool down time relative to distance travelled

[zadkey]

Right now, it seems the game wants you to keep getting a bigger and bigger ship. It seems that the jump cool down really penalizes you for doing this however.

 

For example it takes 90 seconds to cool down from jumping 1 sector or 10. So, early game if I had a bunch of unexplored sectors adjacent to me I could just easily visit them. Now I have to wait 90 second to travel whether the distance is 1 sector or 10.  Which kind of sucks when I am exploring yellow dots on the map looking for hidden things, and I have to sit there doing nothing. Its kind of bad gameplay to sit around waiting for no reason. It makes me want to play something else.

 

I would suggest making the cool downtime relative to your full jump range.  So if you can travel 10 sectors and your cool down is 90, then 1 sector should only be 9 seconds.

[Ohm is Futile]

Hardly matters, you can lower cooldown with hyperspace mods, you can't lower computer calculation times. 99,9% of the time, the thing holding you back from large jumps is the jump route calculation.

[koonschi]

This is planned but it's more work than you'd think because that would imply that jumping with non-fully charged hyperspace engines should also be possible. Would be the next logical step.

[Ohm is Futile]

...or just use the hyperspace upgrades if you want to make smaller jumps? I mean, you CAN get your cooldown timer down to 0 seconds because upgrades are in percentage and stack additively. Absolutely no point without calculation time reduction mods.

[Wilponderoci]

...or just use the hyperspace upgrades if you want to make smaller jumps? I mean, you CAN get your cooldown timer down to 0 seconds because upgrades are in percentage and stack additively. Absolutely no point without calculation time reduction mods.

 

Fully agree with this.

 

When I am exploring I just stack as many jump modules as possible (also equip radar upgrade and object detection) and then if there are hostiles in the area or whatever switch out quickly.