Gateways vs Hyper Relays

[venom2603]

Which do you find to be more reliable?

[Elitewrecker PT]

They have different roles. You use both.

[Lord Lurk]

Depends, even for wide or very wide empires hyper relays are still useful but gateways will always be superior once you get them. Tall empires will prolly benefit more from hypers due to how much easier it is to acquire them vs gateways on top of going a few lanes over with a gateway is kind of a waste.

The way I see the hypers, is they are a mid-way point until you *find* or acquire a gateway to research the tech for the most part, and depending on map RNG can be a good bit until you do in my experience.

[mss73055]

I build both.

Hyperlanes are midgame structures.
You can queue building a track with them.
They do get a lot faster when you get jump drives or psi jump drives.

Gateways are more expensive and you need to micro them.
If you got bad luck this will be the final non-repeatable tech you research.

[amanstaett]

LIke they have said both are needed gateways that fleet hubs or staging areas hyper relays form there to the border or other places that need it and since you can build them right next to each other the speed will almost be as fast as just gateways. Also hyper relays are good for trade route parlot.