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Will starbases with a military focus ever have a zone of control where enemy ships within said zone will be drawn into combat with the starbase? This would make military starbases tactically viable and add another level of strategic depth to the game. Also will they ever be durable enough for them to be worth having?
I like this idea because it allows you to essentially create terrain on the map, something that is very tricky in a space game.
Military starbases should defend planets in it's sphere of influence. Currently you have to put a bunch of ships in orbit and I think that it would make much more sense of a military starbase to do that job. That would possibly make them an alternative to economic starbases, near planets, because now they are just borderline useless.
It already does if you research the tech to do so
Already exists, unless you were thinking of a flat -X speed. Gravity Field Generators and Tractor Beams increase the cost of passing through a tile by 25% and 50%, and reduce tactical speed by 10% and 20%, respectively.
The problem is that a percentage reduction is not enough. Player-built transports have movement rates of 20+ so even with the -50% reduction you can still fly through the defenses. I'd rather have the rule that you can't invade a planet until you have killed the starbases protecting it. Or, if you want to do it with speed reductions then make it cap the speed to a flat max 2 hexes/turn. That would make the transports vulnerable to counterattacks and force me to take out the starbases first.
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