ship building and planet combat

Hi there,

I've got a question concerning host horder:

Assume you have a starbase that is going to be attacked next host run.
You also have sufficient PBP in order to have a starbase do a PBP-build
next host run.
Can you still do the build at this base even if it's going to be
destroyed in combat? Will your ship then be there fuelless, sharing the
orbit with enemy ships? Or will such build just not happen?
The order of action is IMO not very clear. It sais the build queue is
prepared before combat - and such build obviously would happen after
combat. Is there a revision of the host's internal build queue in between?

If it matters: I'm playing phost 4.

Best regards,
Ingo
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Ingo von Borstel wrote:
> Assume you have a starbase that is going to be attacked next host run.
> You also have sufficient PBP in order to have a starbase do a PBP-build
> next host run.
> Can you still do the build at this base even if it's going to be
> destroyed in combat?

No. Only if you manage to build before combat. Or if you manage to
survive

> The order of action is IMO not very clear. It sais the build queue is
> prepared before combat - and such build obviously would happen after
> combat. Is there a revision of the host's internal build queue in between?

PHost runs through the build queue and builds everything that can be
built. If there is no base, it cannot build.

The simple logic behind that is that the host needs to access the Base
object in the data files to build the ship (to remove parts from
storage), and this is obviously not possible if there is no Base object.


Stefan