Starbase upgrade question

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One thing that I did not understand from reading the manual involved upgrading starbases with modules. Do you have to send a constructor ship to a starbase every time you want to upgrade the starbase? Or can the starbase construct upgrades itself?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
You send a constructor each time. Just like in the original. Think about it as a ship carrying a premade module and the ship is salvaged as well to add to the base.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Thanks! Seems cumbersome but no biggie.
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Read up on Rally points, that may help with the management.

W/R
Suralle
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes its really not cumbersome. Can set some colonies to be building a constructor and have them send to a rally point thats a starbase. When that base is all built up, can go onto another. The rally points are so cool, even if the ships are in mid-flight, you can order them all to a different rally point instead.

Once I started including starbases into my games I found whatever win strategy I use, the bases are very helpful not to mention, owning the resources are key too.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Once I started including starbases into my games I found whatever win strategy I use, the bases are very helpful not to mention, owning the resources are key too.


Oh yeah! The resources are critical for a player of my low skills and don't forget the anomalies. If you don't think they are important, watch the AI snap them up. I sometimes ignore them until too late in small map games and it often comes back to bite me in the form of a stronger than neccessary AI.