m.a@stars wrote on Sat, 18 August 2012 07:53

The MT is just another fleet when it comes to intercepting it. It's better to have it rushing towards your ships than away, so you should always try to catch him from a point ahead of its route.

Unless, of course, it gets startled.

By the way, I'd like to check my understanding of how the MT speed works. Here's how I understand it; it appears at somewhere between Warp 8 and Warp 12, on a random course into known space. It may randomly change direction any turn that it would normally stay in known space, which puts it on a new, random heading and increases warp by 1 (which may take it out of known space). On the turn that it would normally exit known space and disappear, it may instead turn around and head back into known space (on a random vector), and decrease warp by 1.

That about right?