Useful Starbases! ? Modders, please respond.

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Trying to break the design classes like this seems awfully desperate to me.

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Desperate times call for desperate measures.

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Load your starbase with MISSILES. They have enough range to cover any planet. You could make a missile mount for bases that extends the range a bit more, even.

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You'd have to REALLY extend the range, if the enemy fleet is on the other side of your huge planet. And what if the enemy fleet has very good PDCs?

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Or load it with fighter bays...

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That's not an option early in the game. And again, it's a strategy that is defeatable by PDCs. Also, fighters are susceptible to wars of attrition, because ships often escape from a battle badly damaged but fixable, whereas fighters have to be rebuilt. The attacker can bring a lot of repair ships and fix everything in one turn, but fighters can only be built so fast. (Because of the one shipyard/planet limitation. Yet another reason to get rid of it, or better yet, overhaul the construction system entirely.)

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
You could also make weapon mounts for WPs more powerful...

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Yes, but WPs are limited to combat-type stuff, they're not as big as bases, and they take up storage space so they're not as good for defending tiny planets.

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
If you had to close in and use special weapons to kill off a planet's population it would be easier to protect.

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Yes, that would help, but attackers could still go to the far side of the planet and remain mostly untouchable by a base.