I still think my dustgas and beacon-thingies idea was brilliant, though I feel like I was reading it for the first time today because I don't remember actually making the suggestion. I went through a LOT of rum while playing VO...

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All you'd do is make capships much harder to catch after a certain point. As the higher HP and shield would out last your ship your chasing it with. But over all agree that there's alot more negatives then positives here. Capital ships don't need any more advantages at outlasting danger.

While infinate sectors is somewhat extreme 8k is way too small.
800k would be more on order with the game balance.