Yes. A starbase world will need an abundance of all credits and all four minerals, and it's rare to find a planet with more than two or three of these. So you need to identify and develop (as quickly as possible) planets to produce the resources that your starbase worlds will lack. (Hint: All other things being equal, build on the mineral rich worlds rather than the credit-rich worlds. Credits are MUCH easier to move around. Of course, native choice is important for early game starbases, too.) And then get ships with big cargo holds to move those minerals and credits to the base. Repeatedly.
Bear in mind, though, that in a Production Queue game, even starbases that can't build anything will produce PPs, which are valuable for ship building after the ship limit is hit. So you don't necessarily want to consolidate ALL your resources into a handful of starbase worlds - but rather distribute some of those resources to build additional bases, even if those bases aren't going to be able to build ships. |
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