how long does it take to make a vasari starbase? a couple minutes? considering how long it takes to transport a fleet, i don't think it's that bad. bring in a migrater with a decent sized fleet and most importantly a mine layer ship and you start that puppy up and surround it with mines, then you let your fleet go. i think it would work very well, by the time you get your fleet tyheir it's built, and you have a starbase and the fleet
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does the kosatru cannon's attack also disable starbases? as is i think of the vasari end cannon as a useless waste of money, but if it could be used to disable a starbase for a few minutes, then i might actually build it, that could be a pretty useful ability
[quote who="-OW- Athena" reply="21" id="2043991"]Some good input. Excellent post Peter Ebbesen; you make a few points I hadn't thought of and, I will confess, slightly dampen my enthusiasm for moving starbases. But do not remove it, for reasons I'll go into in a second. -Ue_Carbon, thanks for your repeated emphatic reminders. : ) I realize ICO has heard this debate before and ruled against my position, but we are in a beta and it's our job to talk about percieved weaknesses in the