Read the description They work as they should. They prevent enemies from jumping into *friendly* territory from a planet with an inhibitor. They do not prevent the enemy from jumping into neutral/hostile territory. So basically, you put them at your choke points to make sure the enemy doesn't sneak any ships past your main defenses and onto undefended planets AI doesn't do this (yet?), but in MP people might!

Ahh yes inhibitors.... once a powerful tactical tool now didly squat useless in all but very very resource high games.

stupid me...next time i will read better before posting

Guess i was to used to the beta 2 version of the inhibitors

The Inhibitor only needs 3 military labs to research though It's on the same tier as the light carrier. It's just that people don't use them/take advantage of their absense. I guarantee if you went up against a player that managed to sneak a bulk of his fleet past your well fortified choke point and started bombing/destroying the economic structures of unprotected planets (because let's face it, who spends resources maxing out tactical in your 'heart of the empire' planets), you'll find a way to research that inhibitor

I often don't need to have fortified choke points, because it means Ive been putting those credits into fleets.

Im usually the one with the fleet inside the other guy's empire. That usually means I don't need as many defenses lol. All an enemy needs to get past that Very expensive phase inhibitor is some bombers... if he scouts at all it wont even slow him down because he will be prepared. Its not that it cant be used effectively its that its currently not cost effective during the early and middle game, by the late game you can build them and it probably wont help much; because players are in active 'extermination' mode and attacking the front line system is a priority as opposed to bypassing it.

If it were cheaper in tactical points and resources I wouldn't be as strongly against the current inhibitor. There was a dedicated thread to this idea that I started a while back- dont know if you posted in it, but a good many compromises exist inside it. Worth a read.



Add On: Just because they are now doing what you intended them to do, doesn't mean they are all that useful... they are just a little too expensive; if they even just slowed the time it took to calculate phase jumps theyd be so much better.

I beg to differ, bombers are useless against it if you have:

A: a defense fleet with ONE flak frig
B: 1 or 2 hangers with a few fighter wings to kill said bombers

I have to cast my vote with the "Inhibitors should GREATLY increase the time it takes for enemy ships to jump into Phase Space".