How do you defend against this?

[GrandmasterYoda]

I've been pondering on something.

How exactly do you defend against the following:

a) reserach jump drives & Spatial manipulators
b) get enough that you can jump to a star, use spatial manipulators
on it.
c) star goes boom. You lose the ships, enemy loses the system.


I'm doing this while jumping into systems with 200 odd battleships & 40 odd artillery platforms.
by the time they've moved to respond, I've blown the star up.

Sure its not a problem vs ai (actually an extremly effective way to stop the lag from all the ships.)
But multiplayer? Well... lets just say my friends nerd raging at me.

[ThyReaper]

The purpose of the jump drive and DSFM are as game-enders, so there's not really supposed to be a particularly effective defense. A ring of stations, or a ringworld, around the star would probably do somewhat well.

[I-HaTeD2]

Wasn't it a Bug when u build Stations in Dry Docks that they spawn around the Star?

[GrandmasterYoda]

I get that they're game enders, but its just way too easy with them.
How about a charge up time on the DSM post jump?

all it becomes once you've unlocked that is "who can spam them the fastest"

[I-HaTeD2]

Just for small Maps or not? The Jump Drives are pretty useless for me but i played only on very very big Systems.

[GrandmasterYoda]

The larger the map, the better they become.

I mean I'm playing in a map with 250 systems. Cluster map. I can litterly jump a fleet from one side to the other, in a minute or so.

[I-HaTeD2]

With a very Big Jump Drive?
I mean, i can't jump to the next System with a normal sized one - bigger means the Ships going to be very glasscannon like.

[Tribmos]

The effect of the jump drive (ie max distance) increases based on your Research level. So when you get around 20-25 tech levels your distance is rather significant.