Defending with starships?

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Hi i have following problems:

First i havent found any way how to add ships into starbase defence ( tried guarding, sentry ). I moved my fleet into same spot where is my starbase but when enemy battleship attacks my base i see none of my ships providing defence.

The second problem involves colony defence. I have many ships orbiting my planet but when enemy makes his move against my planet i see that only one of my ships join defence. That gives enemy quite huge advantage ( being able to take out my ships one by one ! ).

I have played the game now only for few hours and i am quite satisfied except those problems.


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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
For planets, you need an Orbital Fleet Manager on the surface, or else your ships get picked off one at a time. I don't know about starbases, but I usually arm mine to the teeth anyway.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
You can easily set up a starbase to be stronger than an entire fleet of similar tech ships, so I can't imagine that's a real problem.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
You can easily set up a starbase to be stronger than an entire fleet of similar tech ships, so I can't imagine that's a real problem.


That may be true, but while you are building a starbase from scratch in hostile territory, it would be nice to position a fleet to defend it. As it stands (AFAIK) the starbase is always attacked first and alone, despite having ships in the same parsec. It would be nice to have an ability or an upgrade module that functioned similarly to the orbital fleet manager for planets. If that already exists, someone let me know how to do it!
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
So you are saying that you park your ship on a starbase and put it on guard and the enemy blows up your starbase without first destroying your ship?

I haven't had that happen but is doesn't seem logical. The ship might be stacked second to the starbase but it seems it would go active when the enemy approached.

Is you ship still there when the sb is destroyed or is it destroyed along with the sb?
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
For the ships guarding your starbases and planets, form them into fleets. Then when the enemy attacks they have to attack fleets instead of single ships. I'm just guessing, but that sounds like it may be your problem.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I do not know if it is possible, but you may need to form a fleet with the starbase.
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Well... My ships are all still there after starbase goes into oblivion

Forming fleet with starbae i tried, system does not allow such thing.

I tried with fleets also

Well citizen eric made nice suggestion but game what has been praised into such hights and some even call it an orion successor should contain at least some common features of already known 4X games such as space empires etc