Military Starbases do not defend your territory like turrets. But they can help you defend by providing attack and defense bonuses to nearby ships. Just add attack and defense modules like Protection Fields and Missile Launchpads and watch your weakest ships become mighty strong!

does anyone know if there are plans on making military space stations more defensive because they seem very useless unless u have a fleet of secondary fighters or battle ships which if I spend the resources on a bigger fleet instead of constructors I could  end up with a better chance of deffening my space.  Rather I mean that, is there plans on making defending a system or sector easier than just sending fleets out to defend ur space. Because I had stations by my planets but they did nothing to hinder or slow the taking of the planet so I spent over fourty constructors to build a military apace station that does nothing but hinder or support flight or the status of other ships which are mostly offered by the other stations :'(

Am I the only one that thinks that they are worthless as is or am I missing something

Military starbases can be tricky in GalCiv 2.

1. The first problem is how they work. Military starbase modules affect individual ships. The bonuses to attack and defense apply once per ship, not once per fleet. So if you have a fleet of 5 attack ships, and have a military starbase that applies +3 to laser attack and +1 to missile defense, then the whole fleet would get +15 to laser attack and +5 to missile defense. It should be noted that ships need to have some attack rating to get attack bonuses, and some defense rating to get defense bonuses. Constructors and transports without guns are not affected (unless you redesign them so they have guns).

2. The second problem is the techs needed to provide military starbase modules can be difficult to get. Either they are scattered amongst many different techs, or they are lumped together behind a bunch of unrelated techs that get expensive before you can research a tree of military starbase modules. If you were to look at the Terran tech tree (Twilight expansion), you would be able to see that there are 3 notable techs before military starbase modules: Starbase Fortification 1 (400 rp), Starbase Fortification 2 (1000 rp), and Starbase Fortification 3 (4000 rp). Once you have those, you can start researching techs like Starbase Militarization (500 rp) to research new military starbase modules to add to you military starbases.

3. The third problem is that military starbase modules work best with large fleets composed of smaller cheap ships. If you are used to using fleets by themselves, you are probably used to using powerful, larger, expensive ships to make your fleets powerful. The reason why you want to use smaller cheap ships is, the bonuses apply to each ships (like a bonus of +5 attack would apply once to each ship) and cheap ships with primitive weapons can benefit from extremely advanced military starbase modules. A fleet of 20 ships with 1 attack each getting a +5 bonus to lasers from a military starbase is going to have ( (1+5) * 20) 120 attack. So it pays to use overwhelming numbers. Cheap ships are quicker to produce so its easier to get overwhelming numbers.

4. The fourth problem is a numbers game. Smaller cheaper ships are usually easily killed so you need many extra to serve as replacements, and you need to build a lot of constructors to build up your military starbases. If you intend to use military starbases well, you would do well to focus your strategies on the production of a large number of ships for combat, researching logistics, and building up a large number of constructors so you can quickly build and develop new military starbases in hostile territory.

There are no plans... period. GalCiv 2 no longer gets any updates. The devs made it clear that they were moving on to new projects a few years back. If anyone does anything, it most likely would be the modders. However, I don't think any code exists to allow military starbases to directly attack enemy fleets so they probably can't modify the game to get military starbases to do what you want.



I usually don't use military starbases. I don't think they are worth while so I haven't mastered their use. I might be tempted to play a few games using military starbases as my main strategy to see if its possible to win using them. Though I think there is a point where the dominant strategy is to switch to large fleets composed of larger ships using advanced weapons.

Maiden, only one issue with that strategy...it requires a strong economy to support the increase in maintenance costs for star-bases and massive fighter fleets.

 

that is not easy to get without being the TA because they start with market centers in ToTA and no one else does.

We already did. In my mod, for example, the second problem you mentioned no longer exists, because I combined the Starbase Fortification and Starbase Militarization techs.

I also fixed another problem with the military modules. In the vanilla game, the military modules that get unlocked by weapons techs all have the previous module as prerequisite (e.g., you need Laser Equalizer in order to use Hyper-Phasors). However, not all of the races have access to all of the necessary technologies. This means, that they can't use those modules, unless they trade for the necessary tech. I fixed this by simply removing those modules and making the ones from the Starbase Militarization techs a little stronger. A reduction of starbase modules was necessary anyhow due to the 100 modules limitation of the AI.


Depends on what game you are playing. In TotA, for example, the Dread Lords (or any other race, for that matter) can destroy as many ships as they have weapons on board, as long as they have shots left after destroying one ship.