Buffalo Ken

Reply to Brad's Starbase Thread... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

A few points for consideration: 1) In my opinion, restrictions on starbases will NOT hinder the cultural victory path. My experience has been that it only takes one maxed out cultural starbase strategically located to eventually cause the first planet to switch over. Once the first planet switches, then the domino effect kicks in for all of the nearby planets. It does not take many cultural starbases (even in a gigantic galaxy) to follow the cultural pathway. 2) Although the

Reply to Brad's Starbase Thread... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Just my two cents: I would like to see both an overall limit in starbases as well as a limit on starbases in a given sector. These limits could either be a hard limit (i.e. number of starbases) and/or diminishing return type limits (i.e. duplicate starbases have reduced benefits or maintenance costs start increasing, etc). I think this would force many stratigic decisions based on the particular situation you find yourself in. As the game is now, I think use of starbases ha