I agree, using 100% was just an attention getter, someone more familiar with the practical ranges of amps and boosters could probably come up with a useable number.

Using the highway shouldn't be 'sneaky', its a well known path and your taking a risk using it. Travelers radar signiture is increased 50% while their sensors are reduced 50% (%'s are place holders for some better numbers from PVP'ers).

It doesn't need to be. You can mine 90% of all the minerals you need within 1K of an outpost.

you know, all the bold text was sarcasm..

yes, because it regrows pretty fast within a few days.
oh wait, wasn't there something mentioned in a devblog about a change?

btw, 1km is pretty long distance if you consider:
- riveler pilot detects a small ewar at 580m range
- riveler top speed is something around 50-60 fully equipped
- small ewar top speed is probably around 100-120 for demob
- demob range was between 300 and 400m if i remember correctly
- how many seconds do you need to bring down a mining riveler?
- not everyone has his minining operation covered by several alt accounts watching teleporter activity.

I don't think there's any problem with travel times. Find an island and stick to it. The only reason you'd travel away from home in any noticeable distance is for war really. In such a case, logistics has never been a quick and simple thing. You want to kill someone that's not in your backyard, prepare to make an effort. Especially in this game since the population is so low and the space between targets is quite noticeable. You can reach any island and outpost in this game in a decent time, the land masses really aren't that big and even with the latest xpac, there isn't much of it either. The only reason things seem boring and tedious now is because there's not enough players to fill in the gaps so everything seems like a boring ghost town.

Who needs to mine on beta when you can just buy up the market and relist at your own prices? I mean, that's how the smart people do it, amiright? 

is a simple solutions to speed up traveling is already a system that says weather your in combat or not. anyone who has tried to destroy and item while in combat has seen this pop up.

if the game knows if your in combat then it would not be hard to add a mod or another extension that gives a big boost to run speed while not in combat.

this could be an expensive extension or a leg slot mod the gameplay behind it would be your not in combat all avaliable power is redistrubuted to engine allowing for greater speed and manuverablity if is an extension it can be balanced by the cost such as twice the cost of navagation or a mod that goes in leg slots were if you want faster travel you have to give up some defence.

it would not be unbalanceing or reduce risk as it would be avaliable to everyone and the effect would break the moment you are engaged in combat

just an idea as still reading these fourms