Starbases

keltikelti- your remaining power does not affect the result of the battle, just to be clear. They might help you avoid getting slaughtered by a counter I suppose.

collective have one, and its a good idea, because they can`t explore at all... Starbases help in pr jumping.. .Or else it would be too easy to kill them..

UberPansy.. having starbases in your fleet helps you win B/C they don`t go into battle and that means they contribute to your remaining power...

Agreed. Chimera, chiron and the miner bases are very useful in a stack. All other bases are close to useless to everything else but building PR.

Apollo that thinking applies more to RT than turn-based. The Chimaera is decent now for Terrans.

I think the real problem is that building defensive ships is a losing strategy usually, it doesn`t give much flexibility. If there was a way to have starbases not affect your fleet power when attacking they could be interesting. There would have to be a penalty though, like X number of turns to `hibernate` your starbases.

i say otherwise about the coll 1. its amazing when you are pressed for time.... no one expects it spammed at 10 mil pr =P

other then during a UW how many of us really rely on starbases for defense, i think we can all agree starbases are just there so we can climb in PR while in DP

collective do have one, though it`s was a horrible idea. there`s no real reason other than both are consider offensive races not defensive...