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Originally posted by charlieverse:
What are you talking about where you build the spaceyards and then build the components?...I thought you had to have the components built when you built the space base
spaceyards are what you use to build the starbases with the components on them. he is saying that since BASES cost half the maintanance that SHIPS cost, that instead of building 11 or 21 construction ships, you could build one construction ship and have it in turn build 11 or 21 construction BASES, which would then build the starbases with the components on them.
personally, i think thats nitpicking and is a silly idea since construction cruisers dont cost that much anyway, and the time you would spend building the bases would make it a moot point anyway. However, the thing about putting your construction queues on hold so all of the starbases with components on them get finished at the same time, is a good idea. that will save you from paying the maintnance on all those expensive components, and you wont have to lower their cost to make them buildable.
of course, RWs and SWs are sort of trophy items anyway, and i have only heard one or two stories from games where they had any benefit.