[Jeb]

Couldn't they also fix the bug by only allowing emergency propulsion pods on vessels that have at least one engine? After all, they're supposed to replenish movement points, which should be impossible on a base that doesn't have any in the first place.

I definitely agree about the need to do something to tone down the effectiveness of the move/fire/move strategy. In a way, it would be nice if a base's main weapons could opfire like point defence, but of course they you could distract them with heavily armored and shielded decoy ships before moving your main attackers into place. I suppose range bonuses for base weapons is maybe the best bet.

One other point: a couple of people have suggested making bases orbit planets. This wouldn't really help much, because presumably the path would be predictable and so wouldn't make it much harded to duck in and out of range. Seems like a waste of programming time to make them put that in.