Ideal 4x Travel

[Suicide Junkie]

Megastacks had inherent limitations in SE4, since when you got too many ships, they'd start blocking each other from moving optimally.

And with short range guns, there is only a small number of ships that can shoot at any one target at a time.

With SE5, they simply stack up in the same location, forming an Übertower of doom and lameness.

[MasterChiToes]

I want to see big stacks have friendly fire problems.

[Suicide Junkie]

We first need combat AI or physics that will prevent or avoid overlapping...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

In stars!, there were sensors with ranges into the hundreds of light-years, stealth, mines which could cover hundreds of light-years...

...All of which combined meant that if someone sent an uber-stack of doom, your mines would force them to either slow down or take damage and you could attack their space with smaller, spread-out fleets, resulting in a MAD-like situation.

[Xrati]

A good reason to have "Command" ships with special "Command Bridges" on them. Each would have an ability to control so many ships. While fleets could still stack, each would be a stand alone entity.

[Raapys]

AOE weapons would quickly discourage stacking fleets.

[Suicide Junkie]

Only for ships under human control unfortunately...

[Raapys]

That's true. Perhaps it's time for some Homeworld'ish space combat in SEVI?