I'm wondering how exactly Starbases work. I'm going to list what I know, and you can contradict me, agree with me, fill in the gaps in my knowledge, etc. Thanks for any help, all!
Military: Depending on the modules you give your military starbases, you can either up their defense and offense, or increase the abilities of your ships within the starbases range of effect.
Economic: You can up the defenses of these bases. I'm pretty sure any economic modules you put on them only affect planets and trade routes within their area of effect, but I'm not 100% on that. Any advice there, all?
Mining: You can up the defense of these bases. Do all resource nodes that you are mining affect your entire empire? Or is that dependent on the Starbase's are affect ever?
Influence: You can up the defense of these bases. I am really unclear about how the upping influence on these work. Are the benefits empirewide, so it doesn't matter where you put these? OR, do you want to put them close to other civs (within the starbase's range of influence) so you can affect them and take them over?
Again, any way you can fix up my knowledge, expand it, etc. let me know!