well that makes sense - sb's aren't orbital fleet managers too. My only remaining question that when there are ships in sentry mode, they don't seem to go out and engage the enemy. If i'm not careful, the enemy can sneak up on me without me even knowing. Doesn't sentry mode mean my ships are supposed to seek them out when they appear?
i think what i'm hearing is that for a military sb - the only way your fleet gets a benefit from the sb is to be out and about within range of the sb. But when I had ships out there, and the enemy came close, the ships on sentry never engaged. Could there be a reason why? Also if they don't engage the enemy, and the enemy attacks a planet w/in the sb's protection - and there's a fleet nearby - the planet gets no help. I have to send the fleet to attack the enemy manually right? Ther
1. so if you have 3 ships protecting a mining sb (even though ship assist isn't available) - do those ships need to be right on top of the sb itself. I'm guessing yes - if they are somewhere else in the blue ring - even right next to the sb on 'sentry' - they won't be able to help? 2. I'm thinking a good strategy could be to put a military sb in a location where its ring encompasses the mining sb, and perhaps a planet or two if possible. Then build the ship assist modules. When
1) so the mining sb won't assist ships in the blue ring at all? 2) And the military sb only helps if the modules i put on there 'assist ships'? So if they are only attack / defending modules for the sb itself, it can't do anything for the ships i guess. That was probably my problem. Its hard to tell from the modules if they are for defense of the sb alone, or they help the surrounding ships defend. And same goes for attack. It seems its almost useless to try to pi
had 2 starbases, with planets within the blue 'sphere' of each base. And a fleet within each sphere as well. One was a military base, the other a mining base with a military resource. My question: when the enemy attacked my ships - in both situations (military starbase as well as mining starbase) the base never helped out. In the animated show, I didn't even see the base helping. My fleet was crushed... and I had spent so much time building constructors to beef up these bases mil
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