Currently, capships spawn very far from the wormholes and don't really affect the larger ships that may pass through. The fighters are not too effective since for some reason they maintain a distance from targets and not all attack at once.

My suggestion is to either change the place capital ships spawn, to right near the wormholes.

OR

Prevent people from deep spacing so as to prevent the sector from resetting and allowing capships to stay spawned near the wormhole.

Yes I realise that both suggestions are opposite of each other, they have been made to provide a level field so it's not only one side that gets affected due to people using exploitative tactics.

The former makes all blockades much harder, the latter keeps them the way they are.

If the goal is to make the blockades harder, increase the time it takes for the sector to reset. I imagine this can be set on a per-sector basis, or dynamically based on content, but I don't know.

Incarnate said the blockade ai is getting changed a bunch...