Resource Starbases or Advanced Asteroid Mining

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Constructing and improving starbases on Resources, and Advanced Asteroid Mining both require some tech research and shipbuilding time. Both contribute to the strength of your civilztion in different ways. Can someone discuss the relative merits of these two to guide us newbies in choosing which one to give priority to? Also, it seems that once acquired, war opponents can't take away an asteroid mining operation by force, only by influence, but they can blow out a Resource Starbase...is this true? If so, that should be a point in favor of Advanced Space Mining. Am I on the right track?

As always, thanks for your replies.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Resources change all parts of your empire while Asteroids only give some production to your planets. This makes resources much more valuable.

You can 'blow out' an enemy asteroid mine and then build your own.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Also, 1 mining ship can take care of an infinite number of asteroids (albeit slowly), while you'll expend a constructor for each resource starbase and also for each upgrade for the starbase.

There is some cost vs reward for you.

Also, the TA Korx get some techs to make refining of resources even better than the other races, while I haven't yet seen someone rake in improvement in space mining beyond Space Mining III. I'm figuring that the Thalans will have something since they are so production-oriented. We'll see in a day or two though :)
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