ya, other than the suggestion that the phaze destabilization is 'useless', I would agree that I would like to see this upgrades... perhaps not as 'hardpoints' (which i will admit I don't fully understand the concept of) but why not just as one more weapons upgrade, and two more active ability upgrades? This would only make sense with a reworking (that I also think is necessary) of the upgrade slots on SB, to allow for a greater number (with these upgrades, I would think somewhere near 12 would be in order) of total slots for each SB.

Great ideas though.. here is to hoping they aren't too late!

The Only Normal

A harpoint is a point on a ship that a gun can be fitted on. This term is used mostly for games with custimizable ships and vehicles such as EVE. Each hardpoint  is just a POSSIBLE point at which a gun can be placed on. Similar to the way ships have guns that only fire sideways. Good example of this is the Space Egg. It has laser's that fire to the sides yet don't ahve the axis to fire straight forward. That is a hardpoint. But Hardpoint as said before is an empty slot that has the potential for a weapon to be fitted

+ 10 to the Flak idea, but I'd say buff it even more, to 6-7 turrents. Combined with a general Flak buff hopefully we can combat Strike Craft spam. 

It would be ridiculous if a fleet of Carriers jump in, stay at the edge of the gravity well then release their Strike Craft outside the range of the starbases guns and just chill for 4 minutes. Then the starbase dies.

Wow that's flipping fantastic.

Of course, even with flak protection the carrier spammer can just click a few times and his strike craft will be replaced immediately.  

Cuz that's what happens to ALL planetary defenses right now because Guass Guns don't have flak protection and you will never have enough Hangers to shoot his carrier's bomber's down. 

with regards to advent defensive structures, there is essentially no anti-strikecraft capability except the manufacture of more of your own strike craft.

Does no one care about the tractor beams that was kind of the large point of this post since flak guns have been posted

It would be cool. Imagine a Vasari SB tractoring strike craft and ships into its maw

Vasari fleet commander says " SB we need you over here "

Vasari SB says " be right there, soon as I've finished lunch! om nyom nyom! "

Tee Hee hee!

But seriously, whilst it would be cool to see, I think its getting a bit late in the beta to start implementing stuff like that. IMO the game is pretty well balanced right now. As mentioned above there are things at your dissposal to help your SB's survive, maybee not against every configuration of attacking fleets, but nor should they have IMO. They are still pretty tough with good support.

Well I surpose you never know we might get a nice surprise. If not I won't be dissapointed though, and there's allways the chance that someone will do a mod with this.

I think people aren't realizing that a carrier takes 12 resources, and a flak takes 4. 

So unless when the enemy has 20 carrier cruisers, you have 60 or more flaks, I don't think you should be complaining.

why karma, the idea is bad and wrong.

i love the fact it removes all anti matter and 30% health thats a huge advantage but since it is a star base i would like to see targeting uplink in there also

Also about the idea for carriers to stay out of range and let there strike craft take it is odd since the star base has the ablity to make 14+ squads of strike craft of its own and a frig yard yu could ripe there carriers apart with your planes or build the frigs you need at the time of arival

Right.... , which explains why in the beta 3 change log they did just that.

The developers obviously see that Carriers are a big issue, Carrier are not useless if they can't rebuild their SC, but finally balanced. 

I cannot understand why People don't want Flak on Starbases, it very common sense, same goes for Capital Ships.