I liked the old way of doing starbases. It was not hard you just put more modules on the constructor. It keeps cost down. Definitely not use the base version which loads up on range
The new consumes money like mad cuts down on our ability to buy mercs and upgrades
500 is a little high
also monastium is rare and at one point it farms require 10 monsatium like level 4 farm
huge class ships are going to hard as hell to build now