What do Hyper Relays do?

[ImperialForce9]

Even after watching a video go into the Overlord DLC I still don't understand what it does.

[Peter34]

It’s some kind of “road analogy”. I think there’s a Dev Diary that explains it.

[Archmage MC]

Its the stellaris version of 'roads'. Ships will jump between systems that are connected to them instantly instead of needing to sublight travel to the edge. Additionally you have edicts that will allow better resource generation and the like based on your networks.

[Gundalf]

The ships jump directly from hyperelay to hyperelay instead of crossing from one edge of a star system to another between jumps. Then there are also some edict options related to hyperelays.

[monkeypunch87]

It's a highway system.

[Ryika]

It's essentially the same thing as a gateway, but you can only jump to hyper relays in adjacent systems.

[Peter34]

Don't the Hyper Relays also come a lot earlier than the Tech for Gateways?

I haven't really played since 3.3, but it's my impression that HRs are a lower-tier travel method compard to Gateways, coming earlier and being cheaper to construct, but also being less flexible and slower...

[Elitewrecker PT]

Yes
They're cheaper individually, but you need more of them since they need to make an adjacent network.
They're slower if you compare to having a gateway at the start and end of a hypothetical desired travel route. But they're the fastest to get around when complemented with gateways. Gateways are the airports, relays are the highways to neighbouring cities.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by monkeypunch87:

It's a highway system.

they would be cool if they were highways, but in reality you can pretty much cover your entire territory with them without too much issue. to the point they are closer to "teleport anywhere in your own territory whenever you want" than "get from critical point A to critical point B".

They also seem to be pretty high priority for the AI so it's very common to see the entire map covered in them pretty fast.

they need some limiter, probably based on map size.

[monkeypunch87]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

Originally posted by monkeypunch87:

It's a highway system.

they would be cool if they were highways, but in reality you can pretty much cover your entire territory with them without too much issue. to the point they are closer to "teleport anywhere in your own territory whenever you want" than "get from critical point A to critical point B".

They also seem to be pretty high priority for the AI so it's very common to see the entire map covered in them pretty fast.

they need some limiter, probably based on map size.

Yeah, I should have written "at first" or something. I use them as a highway system until I slowly cover all of my systems. But actually, it isn't necessary, but the AI does it.

[ImperialForce9]

Hmm, maybe some sort of limiting thing or bonus that you get if you decide to use them as Highways instead of roads to everywhere you can build to incentivize centralization-ish stuff or no?

[monkeypunch87]

Originally posted by ImperialForce9:

Hmm, maybe some sort of limiting thing or bonus that you get if you decide to use them as Highways instead of roads to everywhere you can build to incentivize centralization-ish stuff or no?

There are edicts, which are cheaper if you own less Hyper Relays. You pay ressources per Hyper Relay. But the AI doesn't care.