Suggestion: Require Starport for colony to extend ship ranges

It is unfair that the currently retarded AI can colonize planets with a garbage PQ (like PQ 2 and 3 planets!) and have those planets extend their ship ranges. I am proposing the following:

1) A colony does NOT extend the effective range of your ships if it does not have a Starport constructed on the colony
2) The construction cost for a Starport should be MUCH MUCH higher than it is currently. This would mean that a colony will have to possess a reasonable industrial capacity to build a Starport, otherwise it will take a long time to construct (as it should).

- Proud Canadian

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Heh I always assumed that was the case so I didnt even notice if its implemented or not.

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Good suggestion ProudCanadian. However I think that would only work if the starting ship range was larger, so you could still colonize the planets in your starting vicinity.

However I dont think this would solve anything, instead just slow things down. Everyone would still put most points into social so the starbases would be built asap.

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However I think that would only work if the starting ship range was larger

Remember that you can just create a new colony ship design on the cargo hull that has more support modules, thus increasing the range.

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