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Old January 9th, 2001, 12:36 AM

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Default Re: Starbase tactics

SE4 is a currently a game about ships and planets. Planets provide materials for ships and ships do the rest. Bases (at least currently) are good for very few things. Check out an old post for more details. We did manage to get MM to allow bases longer ranges but that's about all. So far
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Default Re: Starbase tactics

If you really want to give Bases some combat movement then I would suggest you alter the AFTERBURNERS componet, rename it... make it big... and allow it to be put onto bases.

This should work AFAIK
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SE4 is a currently a game about ships and planets

Well, that's one way of looking at it. Maybe I want bases to be something that MM never intended them to be.

However, you've given me an idea. Is it possible, via modding, to make a new Category of ship, a "base ship", that would be available early on but would be limited to one engine? It doesn't really make sense that, early on, you can make transports that are plenty big enough to fit a spaceyard, but you MUST fill them up with cargo bays. Huh? Hello? These civilizations can make ships capable of interstellar travel, but no one is smart enough to suggest replacing cargo bays with a spaceyard?

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Has anyone ever tried Trachmyr's suggestion?
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Trachmyr's idea works... i already have those in one of my games... works with the
satellites too...
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Default Re: Starbase tactics

I never believed in building bases except to build my sphere worlds. But since you got so much space on the base why not fill them up with fighter bays and have a huge fighter force? that would stop anyone from attacking your bases, with about 20 PD cannons it should also fend off most missile attacks...
why put a starbase with tons of limited range weapons? Build one with plasma missiles or capital ship missiles that has the ability to hit you from where it sits... I think about 20 plasma missiles per turn should damage alot of ships before they ever get into range.
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Default Re: Starbase tactics

Defensive bases are only useful early in the game, and only then when you are just struggling to hold what you've got.

Early game advantages: Relatively long-ranged (due to their base mount bonus) and powerful considering their cost. Also big and hard to kill (with respectable shielding and point defense).

DUC-armed Space Stations supported by satellites make an excellent warp point defense. Missile-armed bases probably aren't as good as missile WPs for planetary defense.

Late game advantages: Um, none. If you put on enough shields to stop an enemy battle-line, you probably won't have enough room for weapons. Also, mid and late-game bases are EXPENSIVE, largely because of their weapons and defenses. By the time you can build big-@$$ battlestations and starbases, the enemy that has forced you onto the defensive probably has dreadnoughts, and even a few (say 6 or so) of them can smash the base that you've spent 2 years building.
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