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Do mining Starbases flip? This is my first game and i'm eyeing several resource anomalies near AI territory. The last thing i want is to build the mine only to have them flip over to the opposing side. Sorry if this has been asked before, but searches turn up only threads about asteroid mine flipping.
Starbases do not culture flip. Just be careful though, as starbases outside your territory might become difficult to defend or upgrade when you get involved in a war.
Thanks for info. Didn't want to find out for myself the hard way lol.
I'll worry about defending them later. At any rate, grabbing them now means that the AI is denied those bonuses until war eventually comes.
One trick I like to use is to place a constructor next to every mining starbase owned by some other civilization. Eventually they'll go to war and either the starbase will be destroyed or the civilization will be destroyed, and then I can grab the resource.
Wouldn't the constructor maintenance be a nightmare, though?
Hasn't ever been a problem. I tend to grab and max out every economic resource I can find, research the economy boosting techs, trade with everyone, and build up my population as fast as I can so as to have more taxpayers. I do occasionally lose a constructor when someone declares war on me, though.
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