Suggestion on how to increase Military Starbase importance

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Since a Military Starbase does not provide active defence of a Planet or Shipyard in it's AOE (other than providing some stat buffs to ships) it isn't a complete priority to take out when attacking a Star System.

 

One way to enhance it's value and require Players/AI to commit ships & effort in attacking a Military Starbase before really invading a planet, would be to add Planetary Defence/Invasion Resistance modules.

 

Cheers,

Zoo

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

1. Give them the ability to move, with upgradeable engines

2. Give them some ability to conduct long range "artillery" strikes, on enemy fleets (and an ability to set on overwatch and automatically fire on incoming enemies)

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting NanakoAC, reply 1

1. Give them the ability to move, with upgradeable engines

2. Give them some ability to conduct long range "artillery" strikes, on enemy fleets (and an ability to set on overwatch and automatically fire on incoming enemies)
End of NanakoAC's quote

Yikes, both of those seem WAY too powerful!

  1. Moving starbase = slow moving assault ship you can move into enemy ZOC.
  2. Artillery strikes + the upgrade that slows enemy ships in range would make a military starbase very difficult/expensive to take out. And all it costs is a few constructors? That's rough.

Personally, I'd like to see active defense of planets in the starbase AOC. That would make them enough of a target: the enemy would have to attack the SB first and possibly lose a few ships. If you station several ships at the SB, that'd be one tough nut to crack.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Another option would be to allow ships stationed at a starbase to transfer to a planet if its being invaded this could be seen as a reaction move and would consume remaining moves from the previous turn