great idea!! Stardock, any comments?

Perhaps once/if tactical combat is introduced, it will be a more viable option.

not likly your the emperor of a giant empire your not gonna care about small combats

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Starbases are a very central and fascinating aspect of GC2. The ability to sieze control of them would be a lot of fun. Particularly in light of shows like Deep Space 9 and Babylon 5, where the stations had to contend with boarding actions from time to time.

I don't know that you'd need a tactical engine to add this to combat. Seems to me there should be combat components that would make it possible. Or barring that, a flat percentage based on the number of attackers and rounds of combat.

I just buy them

I like the idea of troop pods and the ability to take ships, starbases etc. It would be interesting tech tree progreshion, perhaps needing marines and medium to large vessels as these pods would take up space on ships and having to place these on stations in order to repel bording troops would add a new aspect to game stratigy.

So in short, like the idea and would love to see it in the game.

I get really annoyed by starbases, sometimes. It would be nice to be able to invade them directly or subvert them in some manner. Realistically, though, most starbases would have some kind of auto-destruct sequence to prevent them being used by opposing races (if only by overloading the local fusion reactor).

Yep buying stuff is great... you can buy peace or you can pay a race to go to war for you (korx) great stuff, you can buy just about anything if you have the cash.

speaking of DS9, that show was just sooo good. It gave the best look at the startrek universe better than any of the other shows and it had great long reaching story arcs. To bad Berman got rid of the guy in charge of ds9 and ruined voyager and enterprise. Loved the hard reality of choices in the last few seasons of ds9. Babylon5 was fantastic (I still watch it over and over on dvd) and Farscape was alot of fun too. By far those three shows are the best thing to ever happen to sci-fi.

I always wonder why you couldn't upgrade Star bases into something similar to a mediocre planet. Following that you could improve the whole star base tech line to include poplation modules and construction modules for ships and docks.

Granted a base isnt a planet so supply lines would be in place, allowing point of blockading with a consequence if blockaded. something like weaking base def/weps and pop till they either give, or if too loyal at that point destroy the base. Would also be nice for some of the larger maps, espeacially the more realistically planet sparse ones.

Also if Stardock makes some truly epic sized maps (20x20 etc) but capped out system numbers it would make starbase tech a viable and neccesary component.

hotcoffeedude, I don't remember exactly when it comes on. It's sometime around eleven or noon on weekdays. I think there are two episodes of DS9 and three episodes of TNG every weekday.

Ironically, in the episode something failed on DS9 and they had to salvage the item that wasn't working from an abandoned Cardassian space station. I hope that helps as to telling you where they are in the series (I didn't follow it very closely).

Glad to see a lot of people think this is a good idea. Maybe it would be a possible addition.

I don't know if I was clear though, I never suggested that combat needed to be tactical. For instance, your ships could attack a starbase. Afterwords you would have the option to destroy or disable the starbase. If you destroyed it, end of story. If you disabled it, then you could safely move a troop transport to the starbase (without the instillation attacking it) and attempt to take the base. Of course, then starbases, like planets, would have to be capable of holding a small number of troops. Thus, attacking a starbase would be the same as attacking a planet. Maybe less troops involved and a change in scenery.

Maybe a couple of added techs for invasion and defense of starbases. Or those could be included with the already present starbase defense and planetary invasion tree.

I love the idea of tactical combat too but like Cikomyr pointed out and as Frogboy stated some time ago it would be a weak-spot for the AI.

Oh, by the way, I would love to see a larger map too.

somewhat viable

Now how would you what is viable in this game world. How is it not possible that it would be impossible to board another craft because it, by some means, is extremely easy to avoid any form of forced docking?


Damn you George Lucas....damn you.

brigiton, neither I nor anyone else stated that we should add this feature for realism or because it was in sci-fi shows. I simply thought of the idea in part because of the show Deep Space 9. I might add that I think it's perfectly acceptable for a game to borrow from other elements, be it another game or television (and, by the way, GalCiv certainly does this). However, I never said anything about realism.

I said that I thought it would be a good feature and add a new level of strategy. Other people said it would be a "neat feature" and "a lot of fun" but no one said "we should do this because it would be more realistic" or ".. because they do it on TV (which, by the way is fantasy too)."

If you don't like the idea, that's fine. If you don't watch TV that's fine too. But don't claim that I "saw it on TV and it is realistic that this would happen because I saw it on TV, so it should be in the game because it is real." No one made any claims remotely close to that. In this forum you see people talking about the idea, expanding to other things it relates to, and, yes, talking about sci-fi shows that have come and gone. No one, though, said what you claimed.