noob questoin. how do you use phase stabilizer to move between them?

Hayas. I just found this out myself. What you need to do is be in a planet that has a phase stabilizer then click on the move fleet button and click on the phase stabilizer that is located at the planet you want to goto and your fleet will move directly to that area.

Its a bit confusing, because you actually don't have to do anything. If you have two systems linked by a stabalizer and you tell your ships to move from one to the other, what you'll actually see them do is move directly, as if a phase lane existed between the two systems.

You don't need to tell your ships to move to the stabalizer or anything like that, the ships will use it automatically if you tell them to move between planets and the stabalizer is the fastest way to get there.

Ah thanks. I think it should display lines, maybe a different color for potential links between phase stabilizers.

Actually probably not a bad idea.

Though as a substitute, the infocard of a planet will show if it has a phase stabilizer (in bright green text near the bottom) when you mouse over it.

I think the reason why they didn't do that is with a lot of phase stabalizers, it'd get really confusing:
2 stabalizers = 1 lane
3 = 3 lanes
4 = 6 lanes
5 = 10 lanes
6 = 15 lanes

etc

Once you have a lot of them, the map would turn into a giant web of phase stabalizer lanes, and would be hard to read.

I've noticed they don't seem to work when there is a planet without a phase stab in between the two with it. For example you have planet A with phase stab, planet B without and planet C With. If planet B is directly on the line in between A and C your fleet will just jump to C instead. Maybe it assumes this is the fastest route but this isn't always true (in my case planet B then linked to a Star which then linked to A so going this way took a lot longer than jumping straight from C to A :() Did any of that make any sense?

Were you actually trying to go to B? It should be finding the least number of jumps, not exactly calculating the length of time it would take to cross each grav well and plotting course based on that.

Since phase gates are direct connections, and you want to go from A to C where both have phase gates, even if B is "on the way" there's no reason for them to go through it, since phase gates create their own phase lanes.

A small diagram or something would help though

Hmm, I've had a case where I built a Phase Stab so I could get my fleet behind a Pirate base (I captured around it, with my fleet forming a front ahead, in the direction of the enemy), but when I sent my fleet across to intercept a raiding fleet, those I sent went across, except my highest level cap ship!!! Since the artificial phase lane was crossing the pirate base, my fleet moved, but my cap ship stopped at the base, which had in excess of 900 ships. My cap ship was vaporized in seconds. I reloaded and did it again, but this time, it didn't happen. Wierd... :NOTSURE: 

So theres a bug where gate lanes cross gravity wells? Interesting...