A cheese dipped evil idea..

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Fill a useless, empty, out of the way sector with starbases. Give them away to Major AI rivals and watch their economy grind to a screaming halt.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
quite an expensive approach though as those starbases cost you money to build. I assume the intelligent AI's will just disband useless starbases like they disband useless colonies. I suppose if you have nothing else to do with them or really need to trade starbases.

Paul.

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
'AI's will just disband useless starbases like they disband useless colonies'

Are you sure the AI would do this with Starbases? I haven't atually put this in to practice, the idea just came to me when I was gardening.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
No I'm not sure.
It was discussed a while back but I'm not sure if the AI was implemeneted.

I am sure that they will destroy a useless planet though. That was added.

Paul.

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Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I know the AI will disband useless ships you give them... In my last game I found a corvette, and I gave it to the Torians, to try and get on they're goodside (they always seem to hate me for some reason), and at the end of the turn the corvette just disappeared.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
But here's where it gets muddy. Maybe you build up all these starbases with manufacturing bonuses so that any planets in the sector gets huge bonuses. Will the AI view them as valuable even though there are no planets around to enhance? Will they turn them into death stars and move them to a useful place? Hmmm...

Bill

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Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Has anyone ever tried buying the military of some empire like the Dregin? Just offer to pay a bit of money (depending on the map size and your reserves) for 50 months plus give them all your tech and trading goods. Then you could take over their empire with their own ships. After they're dead, disband the stuff you don't need. I tried this before and it worked perfectly. I took over their entire empire for only about 10k (large map, normal level). I did have to position a few of my own transports around their planets to help take them over, since they didn't have enough themselves. Someone should probably make a mod to stop this because it makes taking over an empire cake. All you need is a little bit of cash. The other nice catch about the dead empire is that you don't have to pay back that nice 50 month loan.
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
I tried something similar on a smaler scale. A UN bill had passed that made a starbase cost 10bc a turn if it wasnt in a sector you controled. I gave some starbases to enemy civs. Iv also wondered if you could use a startegy like this to create an artificial choke point and get civs to fight each other
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
What if you built two starbases with Culture modules in the same sector and then gave one to each of your worst rivals?

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