One of the reasons for PBP was to encourage ship combat. PQ is also meant to encourage ship combat. Some prefer low mineral games because of over abundance of resources in default settings on Nu, can lead to every single planet having a maxed out Starbase.
It's less fun going overboard on Starbases, they should be strategic... they are already powerful enough!
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