i don't understand why the cycles stop being counted. it should count your trade route as 'one go around the cycle'. i've had trade routes 8-10 long drop down to 2-3 just because i completed the cycle. stupid...
that's weird. because i usually see lots of TEC. in fact, the poll on the sins site indicated that a majority of people play TEC
The point is, if i DO have adequate support to protect it, the starbase becomes irrelevant as the fleet that's 'protecting' it most likely wiped out the enemy anyway. So now the expensive starbase is left to clear repair bays and turrets...waste of money
The vasari have no anti-structure ships and the equalizer is supposed to be the fact that you can depoly their starbase in the other grav well and it will take stuff out. while their starbase rocks in general, i find that it is useless in an assault scenario. even if you max out Assault Deployment it still takes forever to build at which point: the enemy killed it while it was building your fleet killed the enemy and now the starbase has no point anyway
