A poll about bases. *DELETED*
 

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Remote Mining

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Remote Mining would fall under "Something Else," and yeah, me too; Shipyard/Repair at a planet or "waysystem" and remote mining at asteroid fields.

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I dont understand the second poll question. windows huh ?

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Yes, remote mining is a good use of starbases. Defense is a horrible use of bases because they are often horribly positioned. I wonder if adding combat movement to a base as an ability might help?

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Bases are a very good way to boost the defenses of small planets where relatively few weapons platforms can be placed. If you are worried about positioning, try fighter bases. Just a huge cargo base with launch bays and a few minimal defenses, which is cheap, and the fighters can go where they need to be.

What bothers me about mining is that remote mining of asteroids is actually a very different technology from remote mining of planets but SE tech doesn't take note of the difference. For this reason I tend to completely ignore remote mining in SE.

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Should space stations have little windows for people to use to view space or whatnot?

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Something Else; Building of Sphereworlds and Ringworlds

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Remote Mining - Good
Planetary Defense - Bad
Warp Point Defense - Good (Those first-shot Massive Mount weapons from big bases do wonders to slow down the enemy.)

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Mainly for shipyards, defense, and sphere world construction. Occasionally for storing units and population.

I voted for the first part of the poll and accidentally clicked OK before I voted for the question about windows, and now I can't go back and vote for the windows question.