Resource Starbases

The resource starbases add to your racial abilities (morale, economy, research, influence), not colonies themselves.

There is no benefit to anything (planets or ships) within a resource mining starbase area of influence.

As pndrev says resource mining starbases give you a bonus to your global abilities. Pndrev mentions morale, economy, research, influence resources which give a bonus to the appropriate ability. These are listed in your Stats & Graphs area of your civilization manager. Also military resources give a bonus to both weapons and defenses. Each fully populated resource mining SB adds a 39% bonus.

Here's a screenshot of the stats & graphs page from a gigantic game that I'm playing. Note the circled areas are effected by the resources I'm currently mining. In this game I have the following resources fully mined giving the following benefits. Anything above these bonus comes from racial abilities, tech or wonders.

6 economics = 234%
5 military = 195%
4 research = 156%
8 morale = 312%
6 influence = 234%



If I didn't have these resource mining SB's then I would have the following total bonuses.

Economics = 171%
Weapons = 6%
Defense = 14%
Morale = 120%
Research = 42%
Influence = 74%

See what a difference these make.

Thanks, guys.

I thought I had the feeling I missed one resource.

At the beginning are the resources not so important (but it is important to occupy them for later use). But even few percent more to the huge income/research is significant. Yesterday I had quite large empire with only few military resources. The Terran attacked me and I took several theirs planets + two research resources. When I upgraded the mining starbases on them, the research was significantly (25 %) faster.

BTW: Now I know, why Altarians hate Human. Humans are always problem. First of all they always attack me. And yesterday I signed peace with them, because I wanted to see "Research Victory". They surrendered (as the last opposing race) and so I did not make it. It was Allied victory. Rrrrrrr!!!!

Mumblefratz,
The YOR are probably going to buy you out soon, unless you defeat every last and many - in a hurry!

- Zyxpsilon

Somehow I doubt it.   

What you don't know is that the Yor are isolated on a single planet, a PQ3 with the Re-Education Center and the Galactic Guide Book. The first keeps them from flipping due to my overwhelming influence and the second keeps them from building a Starport. Their treasury is high simply because there's nothing that they can buy. I also killed every ship they had before I exiled them to this prison planet.

In the meantime I own the other 456 planets in the galaxy and have converted them to 100% Stock Markets except for about 300 planets that also have a Starport. I'm currently earning about 1.3 million BC per turn that I spend down each turn buying 300 ships for under my military starbase array. Once I build about 17,000 ships then I'll finish the game by putting the Yor out of their misery and collect my 800K+ points for the game.

There's MS_Gates and then, there is...

Which is exactly why i'd plunge my hands into a truly designed (and available by choice) by SD staff -- Giga/scale Economic victory also!
Say, bazillions of BCs in the bank and counting... once the game itself suddendly realizes the tide is (somehow) irreversible.

- Zyxpsilon.