not to be a buzz kill but assuming there was a network of stargates (or any form of matter teleportation) they would probably not be designed for tactical usage, I mean in SG1 they have all sorts of things that prevent the gate establishing connections, or preventing someone to travel through. So that discounts the advantage of having such a fast method of movement.

Now if it were me and I had two methods of travel, the first which is a network of gates which link systems or whatever ( see the X Universe of games) or a FTL (faster that Light) drive mechanism Id probably choose the FTL drive method, simply because the ships can then fly to the destination relatively unimpeded and then beable to enter combat, where as moving through the gate system would mean that youd pop out and temporarily dazed, seeing as most onboard systems (sensors, astro-navigation software, weapons control etc) would all need to run up to readiness in the new environment due to the displacement effect caused by being moved from one point to another.

for example Im going to use the Jump drives from Wing Commander for this, in both the games and the (admittedly lame) movie ships exiting from jump-space are momentarily disorientated because the jump drive requires massive amounts of power. Now a gate network uses its own power source and so the ship doesnt need the gate drive, what would happen if it popped out in the middle of no-where after misgating, and something happened to the gate powersource, youve got a ill equipped ship stuck in the middle of nowhere with no hope of support.

so for a space combat system any form of gate is impracticle when you have FTL drives because FTL drives are on the ship, are self contained and allow the ship to remain ready for battle at a moments notice although in the novel The Forever War there was a hybrid system, instead of having gates a ship would fly at a collapsar (which is a neutron star which the surface is bouyed up by relativity but it still in the process of collapsing), then the ship would be flung off at light speed along its heading prior to insertion into the collapsar, so unless they encountered another collapsar they were pretty much screwed.

overall the tactical advantages of hyper/star/dimension/rift/whatever gates versus a faster than light capable ship dont wiegh heavily towards the gate method, its too easy to abuse, but hey if you make a mod for it kudos to you, dont let the naysayers say Nay to it, its just a matter of personal preference and I dont think Id be using a gate mod if one existed

As Brad/Frogboy has pointed out in the dev journals it is easy to add a new feature but hard to recode the AI to properly take advantage of it.

It wasn't until v1.1 that the AI started valuing speed but it still does not value sensors, so I ALWAYS get in the first shot giving me a HUGE advantage!

well in thoery theres no weight in space so supoly if you keep accelerating you would just keep gaining speed.

its game theres no real basic to any of it.

as for using worm holes to connect points is kinda silly I dont even really like point of them being in game at all worm holes are acutlly supose to be black wholes that some how connect

in theroy when to black wholes connect tho ud just end up with things getting sucked in at both ends and every thing getting crushed in middle.

well thigns that are big anyways small things do escape its proven fact that bases of life are formed in black whole and end up escapeing black whole.

its game theres no reason that, they cant just thro in abilty to make star lanes.

or stargates where you can build using contration ship a stargate at one side and then move the contration ship some place elese and have it build anthere one some place elese, master of orion had them

when you move ship from one point to othere it just got there in one turn

they dont even half to be linked if you build one at one point and then build one at anthere point it you would just instatsly move there.
to that point i mean where othere stargate is.

now its hard coded into the game that allies or what ever can not take advtange of star bases.

so if you build this Ai could not take advtange of ones you build but if ai builds then you wouldnt be able to take advtange of theres.

which is proably way it should be.

and it half to be something thats proably included into, a expasion.

I think that black holes hould be around the hugh maps and just to suck into them planet that you have or the enemy....   

Another theory for wormhole creation is two black holes colliding, they could add black holes to the game and ships near them get destroyed.

Wormholes are black holes linked to theoretical white holes. 2 black holes smashing together would be... interesting, if nothing else, but certainly not a wormhole.

Well, I just thought of a counter: Interdictors. Using a special module that prevents the warping of space, they render both stargates and hyperdrives useless. Going to invade? Send a fleet with an interdictor to near the enemy's stargate.

Actually, I meant on ships. Interdictors are another standard scifi feature. Just imagine how players would react if their lovely 60-PC ships were cut down to one   

This is interesting. Try this set of starbase modules on for size. You reduce the influence of a starbase down to it's own tile, making it effectively useless for anything else, and then give it a huge speed boost, letting your ships "slingshot" from there to pretty much anywhere else you want. Massively abuseable, and the ai would go, huh?, but interesting anyhow.
replace all { with < and } with > using the replace-all function of your editor

{StarbaseModule InternalName="Hyperjump"}
{Name}Hyperjump{/Name}
{Model}Starbase01{/Model}
{Module_Requirement}PowerConsolidation{/Module_Requirement}
{Description}Sit back tight, you're about to experience some MAJOR whiplash{/Description}
{ModuleSize}1{/ModuleSize}
{StarbaseAbility}SpeedAssist{/StarbaseAbility}
{StarbaseAbilityValue}200{/StarbaseAbilityValue}
{Type}Defense{/Type}
{/StarbaseModule}
{StarbaseModule InternalName="PowerConsolidation"}
{Name}Power Consolidation{/Name}
{Model}Starbase01{/Model}
{Module_Requirement}{/Module_Requirement}
{Description}Concentrates the power of the starbase to it's own parsec, required for the Hyperjump module{/Description}
{ModuleSize}1{/ModuleSize}
{StarbaseAbility}StarbaseRange{/StarbaseAbility}
{StarbaseAbilityValue}-8{/StarbaseAbilityValue}
{Type}Defense{/Type}
{/StarbaseModule}

You also have to add this to English.str
under [TABLEALIAS StarbaseAbilities]
add [StarbaseRange] Starbase Range

or you get a string not found error

StarbaseRange has some interesting possibilities, though as noted before, getting the ai to understand and use them well is not in the modders hands at the moment.

FYI despite what it says in the mod guide, StarbaseRange changes the starbases range of influence, not the range that ships may fly from the starbase.

okay, how about this: a new type of wormhole that is stable and will last for several trips and is two-wayed. by sending a constructor through to the far end you can build a structure on both sides that let you stabilize the wormhole to act permanently. this would allow for instant travel between both ends.... of course... maybe you could create your own wormholes... then of course you would be able to collapse them... make your own gates... very confusing.....

You JUST killed the horse. Now watch it be beaten.

https://forums.galciv2.com/?forumid=348&aid=128229

^^

So the conclusion is that none of the cinematic tells us the actual speed of either the stargates or the hyperdrive.

No, but Brad has, and he wrote the story

According to him, the stargates were about half as fast as the first hyperdrive.