That would make the starbase too powerful in the early game. I think it would be better if starbases can join up with a fleet. Another way is to have a docking moduale. This was meant to allow ships to dock with starbases and defend it like a planet. This was taken out, perhaps because stardock could not get it to work or balance it.

That might work, too. Gives a little incentive to add tons of modules. However, something like that cannot be modded in.

Unfortunately, protecting starbases with ships doesn't work very well. They keep asking you for instructions far to frequently, even when you set them to guard mode.

Maybe they would include more power starbases in the next update?

I'm sure a lot of you have seen the DS9 episode, where DS9 held off 35 klingon ships. Now thats a starbase!

I like the idea of fleeting them with other ships. A starbase fully upgraded would be quite powerful if treated as another ship in the fleet.

If starbases were to be treated like any other unit/base on the battlefield from which we draft conclusions of strength, measures/counter-measures, if starbases were stronger, then the navies of the universe would keep their navy at the starbases, and starbases would have to become mobile and used as large ships to attack other units/bases.

Starwars which is pure fiction, at it's best, had a mobile star base they used to destroy a planet, if not for that available power, the small figher and small capital ship fleet wouldn't have gone near the death star, merely because it couldn't have been defeated by conventional means. "They used the force" lol.

In the real world, on the modern battlefied, you attack weaknesses of your enemy to build an attrition rate and expose weaknesses in the enemy's strengths. If you do the converse, and attack the strength you introduce the possiblity of your own attrition rates and prolong the war as well as give the enemy an option to win. A lot of the attacks done are not necessarily the primary objective but supporting attacks. In aerial warfare at least, but a lot of that occurs in ground warfare.

Space warfare would become the new aerial warfare. You're not fighting for control of the space, your fighting for control of the planets, and the enemies ability to influence, via force, to control your planets.

It makes sense to have starbases limited rather then unlimited in HP because of the way in which they'd change gameplay over time, also because they'd give the human player another advantage over the AI, the uber space station.