Hi!

First off the regular: thanks for spending your time and effort to improve MoO. I highly appreciate this spirit!

On Topic: I really like the idea about the star lanes as they provide a nice way of building front lines. In my opinion it was a flaw of the old gang that you couldn't stop any intruder passing by except on the actual destination. This ended up in fleet shifting all the time...

On the other hand, I think the biggest pain point on star lanes as they are now is, that they limit the maneuverability of your ships way too much. This is especially noticeable with late-tier drives where every step between and within systems is a 1-turn move.

So instead of forcing the fleet to stop at every border of a solar system I'd suggest that the fleet moves as far as the engines carry them, seamlessly through a system as well, if there's no outpost or something in their way. If they run out of 'fuel', they should stop right where they are: on a position on the star lane (like it happens now) and on a position in a System which makes them attackable of course.

I made a sketch to illustrate my idea[imgur.com]!

EXTRA: Ships can't navigate out of com/scanner range of your planets like in the classics ;-)

Hope you guys like the idea like I do. Let me know what you think about this idea and if this project would be even feasible for a mod.

Keep up the great work!

Cheers