Hyperspace Tech Level / Met / Crys / Deut / Fuel % Reduction
8 / 0 / 512.000 / 256.000 / 1.5%
9 / 0 / 1.024.000 / 512.000 / 3%
10 / 0 / 2.048.000 / 1.024.000 / 4.5%
11 / 0 / 4.096.000 / 2.048.000 / 6%
12 / 0 / 8.192.000 / 4.096.000 / 7.5%
13 / 0 / 16.384.000 / 8.192.000 / 9%
14 / 0 / 32.768.000 / 16.384.000 / 10.5%
15 / 0 / 65.536.000 / 32.768.000 / 12%
16 / 0 / 131.072.000 / 65.536.000 / 13.5%
17 / 0 / 262.144.000 / 131.072.000 / 15%
18 / 0 / 524.288.000 / 262.144.000 / 16.5%
19 / 0 / 1.048.576.000 / 524.288.000 / 18%
20 / 0 / 2.097.152.000 / 1.048.576.000 / 19.5%
21 / 0 / 4.194.304.000 / 2.097.152.000 / 21%
22 / 0 / 8.388.608.000 / 4.194.304.000 / 22.5%
23 / 0 / 16.777.216.000 / 8.388.608.000 / 24%

Requirements: None needed, just unlock like Ion and Plasma.

Big thanks go to Rebel4Life and Coretexx for coming up with this suggestion in principle and/or helping to balance it.
And thanks to Venku for telling me I should post this.

Pros/Cons:
This uses a research which currently dead-ends at level 8.
Scaled at 1.5% per level to make it easily affordable at early stage but progressively harder until an obvious ceiling is achieved according to Uni speed specs.
Balanced in that it uses crys and deut, both used extensively in ship-building. This makes a fleeter think twice about investing in it, especially at higher levels.
Helps offset the massive merchanting issue common in a lot of Unis, where miners find it more profitable to merchant at 3/2/1 rather than sell to fleeters at 2.5/1.5/1 - 2/1/1.
Also, I think this would tie in excellently with Relentless's small rec idea (faster but costs more deut to send).

Gameforge, we need to stop killing fleeters and rebalance this game. Every 'upgrade' is DM-related and kills off this game every time.

Please 5 star this if you think it's worth forwarding to the Ogame devs.
Need 20 votes of 4-5 stars for it to happen.
Cheers.
:Biggriner: