I would like to suggest that one of two things happen to remove the imbalance in the CtC routes.

A. remove the itani station in Edras, having it there gives the itani convoys 1 less sector they can be attacked in without strike forces interfering.

or

B. place a serco station in Ukari-A10, so that the routes are the same length.

In the hopes that this doesn't become some kind of Serco vs. Itani posting war, I'm going to chip in first and say I completely agree.
The CtC routes should be as even as possible, I'd prefer the additional Serco station in Ukari to the removal of the Itani one from Edras.

I agree also, I was comparing and noticed the itani convoy has a fairly shorter route with fewer chances of hitting ion storms before hitting "safe" space. Itani home in edras, and have to go through pelatus to get to bractus. Serco home in initros, and have to go through ukari AND latos to get to sedina and have considerably more roid fields in between them and Daltas Hold.

agreed too. the thought of having a serco station in ukari makes me smile with anticipation of shorter travel times to battle my itani friends.

please devs, don't let this one slip away into the haystack of suggestions.

btw, happy holidays!

I am Itani, and I agree. To have a good battle, it must be fair. It needs to be skill that wins the game, not just who has the easiest time or best chances.

I never noticed it, but thanks for pointing it out. This is most important. Hopefully this will be changed immediately.

I agree with the placement in Ukari more than the removal of the one in Edras, but hey, what ever works.

Funny, I was thinking about this imbalance earlier today. Good post and I can buy into the additional Serco station idea.

Edras is not Itani controled you wont get hit by a strike force untill that quadrant... dont remove Edras station.. but add one to Ukari and maybe move the Serco launch point over one system.

I am all for making the CtC balanced. However, from a story-line perspective, I'm not sure the UIT would be thrilled about a Serco station in Ukari. Perhaps it would be better to move the departure point for the Serco convoy to Sedina B8?

agreed, and move the initros station a little further from the wormhole.

Moving the departure to Sedina B-8 would give the serco more advantage, because there is a wormhole there.

As far as a station in Ukari being un-thrilling to the UIT, what does that have to do with game balance.

well i was typing my responce that i'd go with A, but then i remembered the stations name, and it's called Eo's welcome. that can't exactly be removed as i beleive that's tied into the backstory (correct me if i'm wrong :P it's 9:15am here) so i pressed backspace on my responce.

clearly the only other option is to throw the transport in Ukari.

Why do we need to *shorten* the routes? Why not just *lengthen* it instead? Put the Itani starting station in Odia is my suggestion. This way, we have more chances of playing PVP.

that could be a good idea but actually i think devs should fix the problems already in game first than working to bring something like this in game.