Base Advice

[pitttbulll]

Just wondering if anyone who is near finishing or finished the game could give a little base expansion advice.
I'm playing on normal difficulty, and are in the second month with two bases, one of which is the starting base.
How fast should I build bases?
I want to be able to keep up with the increasing ufo activity, but I don't want to overexpand myself into bankruptcy either.
I've read a couple of posts recommending the one base a month strategy.
Any input from my fellow gamers would be appreciated.
Thanks again.

[Walloc]

ORIGINAL: pitttbulll
How fast should I build bases?
I want to be able to keep up with the increasing ufo activity, but I don't want to overexpand myself into bankruptcy either.
I've read a couple of posts recommending the one base a month strategy.

Depence on ur economy. A year into my game i have 8 bases. most being made in first 8 months.
I think u give the best advice ur self. Dont overextend ur economy, build as u can. yes it seems base if keept, helps keeping up the monthly payments from states.
Later in game it seems that the best source of revenue is alien stuff sold but i dont want to spoil to much.

Kind reagrds,

Rasmus

[Hard Sarge]

I think the whole trick will come down to build what you can afford, but also build what you can defend, until it can defend itself
 
remembering that a base with one hanger, is with in reason, worthless other then knocked down scouts, so you are going to want to have at least 2 or 3 hangers per base
 
once the bigger ships start to show up, some close bases that can be set up for cross ambushes can come in handy

[GalacticOrigins]

In my current normal game, I built one per month until I had like 5, then I saved and built one base and added more fighters. Early on I did not have fighters everywhere, since they cost.
 
Now I have all 8 bases, and one has 4 hangars, all the others have 2. Two such smaller bases are currently without fighters since I do not need the fighters at this time. My main base also has 4 hangars. Hope this helped some.
 
(Every time I added a ninth base, the enemy took it over, so I reccommend only 8 bases. Besides, when the enemy shows up and takes over that last region you can go on a ground base mission.)