Military Starbase Issue Under 2.31.576822

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Either I do not understand how military starbases defend themselves or combat involving a military starbase is not working as expected.

The first screen snapshot below shows the battle report for when an Intueri Aggregate fleet attacked my military starbase.  As you can see, my starbase was destroyed with beam weapons and my starbase did not evade, absorb, or mitigate any of the attacks.

The second screen snapshot shows the Combat Rating report for my starbase.  As you can see, it has missile attack of 49, beam attack of 30, and kinetic attack of 23. It also has shield strength of 510 and armor rating of 25.

My questions are:

  1. Why didn't my starbase use its missile attack BEFORE the attacking fleet used their beam weapons?
  2. Why didn't my starbase use its beam attack when the attacking fleet used theirs?
  3. Why didn't my starbase's shield strength absorb all of the attacking fleets beam attacks?
  4. Why didn't my starbase's armor rating get used at all?

The third screen snapshot shows that, when my starbase was destroyed, it's shield integrity was still 100%.

The fourth screen snapshot shows that, when my starbase was destroyed, it's armor integrity was still 100%.

What am I missing about how military starbases defend themselves?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

hey PaulLach thanks for catching this. I was wondering if you had a link for the save game that i could pass on to our team?

Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Yes, I do.  The following save file was made as soon as I noticed that my military starbase had been destroyed:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tm6ze4pjavdulabo667wz/MilitaryStarbaseDefenseIssue.GC4Sav?rlkey=7rdwfwwtzkejs6n76krrc1amr&dl=0

The destroyed starbase was named "Deep Space Starbase 19" and was located down and to the left of my core world named "Drendor 2".

You can also see what I would expect to have happen by going to my core world named "Thielbar V", then using my fleet of 12 ships named "Campos Fleet XXXIV" to attack the Corporate Sector's military starbase named "Asgard Starbase 3" (to the left of my fleet).  The battle report for that battle should show that military starbase did defend itself.

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I also went back to a previous save and played the game forward until the end of my turn, after which the military starbase gets destroyed.

Here is the save file (note that the name of the save file is the same as above except a "2" has been added to the end):

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/a09xtbn15c81ea72yugud/MilitaryStarbaseDefenseIssue2.GC4Sav?rlkey=cfwp6q8cxbxhy5k5sj4zc7kbw&dl=0

All you have to do is:

  1. Load the save file (you should be at the end of a turn)
  2. Click on the icon to go to the next turn
  3. You will need to do something with  the fleet that still has moves left (I merged it into the fleet nearby)
  4. At this point, all of the AI civs will take their turn.  When they are done, my military starbase will have been destroyed.

Hopefully, this will help you figure-out what is going on.  I hate to have wasted all of the resources I did to beef-up that starbase only to have it destroyed without putting up any fight.

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