If they were to add warp gates, I want gates to be:
- Expensive to build
- Expensive to run
- Take a long time to build
- Have a very large minimum size (if warp gates are able to have variable size)
You're removing an entire aspect of gameplay, and having cheap teleportation doesn't seem right.
By having these three attributes you would guarantee that:
- Gates would only be created by wealthy and well defended organizations/players.
- There would be a limited number of gates in the game.
- Gates would have value. You're not just looking at something that was haphazardly whipped up, you're looking at something that took a multitude of players and took them many days or weeks to build.