No bad at all. If I had to pick something to quibble over, it would be the host's comment "we could get it for free..." I think he should have chose his words more carefully. Maybe he should have said something along the lines of: Something unscrupulous people may chose to take. It is not a big point nor a sharp one but one nonetheless.  

Yeah. He ended the statement well enough however. Funny I always thought those type of interviews were rehearsed prior to broadcast. Silly me...  

Wow, I can't wait for this to come out. I wish that they had shown the other faction's starbases, too, though.

Don't worry, the starbase has plenty more goodies then just lasers.

Well its hard to speculate in any detail, but you can certainly have more than 10 guns on an in game object already whether or not you can fire 10+ simultaneously I can't honestly say.

The hardlimits are I would say helping the games developers keep to their design ethos of making the game accessable to lower-end hardware, so upgrade your bloody hardware u lot

What I was looking for visually was if the gun point on the Starbase showed any signs of pointing towards their target, but the video still shows the crazy 90 degree beam shots. The whole concept of the Starbase is a great idea and shows real improvement but please don't neglect the details IC & SD it adds so much to the overall immersion of a game.

Yep. That is exactly what I understood from his comments. He also said SB at stars to boot!

I didn't think so at first (since there are hangers for that), but in the video you can clearly see some kind of opening at the top of the starbase. It's glowing green, however, so it may just be for decoration (or for something mind-blowingly awesome that hasn't been talked about yet).

so is it just me or did anyone else notice those two different cylinder thnigies. one of them looked like a ship or a gun, and the other looked like something to be used for electronic warfare? and also did anybody notice in the opening scene thingy tht sort of thing tht looked like a reverse flatbed with fuel tanks on it? either im going crazy or thts some new stuff.

" had cap for the amount of visual point things for a weapon and that limit 10?"

The limit no longer exists for Starbases.

The clip from 0:16 is from the teaser trailer released long ago. It was WAY before the betas came out.

I think a lovely touch to the game (And a more realistic view on things) Would be fleet logistical support. Every fleet needs its oil tankers, ammunition ships and repair barges! When you upgrade your fleet cap, it takes a percentage away for 'fleet upkeep'. I think you should take this out alltogether, and make the player manualy do this. HAve him build tankers and ammunition ships and send them out in his fleets, or leave them stationed at planets as temporary 'repair stations'. I dont think making un-supported fleets run out of ammo, or fuel, is what should happen, more along the lines of:

A logistically supported fleet will gain advantages, especially over long distance fights. The logistical fleet will provide a home away from home.

A logistically unsupported fleet will be at a disadvantage, especially over long distance fights. Ammunition and fuel will be short stocked, which will lead to a 'rationing' of whatever the fleet has, which means less firepower output.

And in this, I think there will be a place for that tanker that was spotted in the vid

And the spikey thing at 2:43, what the hell is it? Also, the before mentioned 'cylindar' at 1:24  and another mysterious object at 4:24... Hehe.

Cant wait for the expansion!

the spiky thign is a mine

Ironclad and Stardock know.