well, i've been looking through some old posts and came across DeepFreeze's comment that no matter how many bases and stations you destroy you are back to square one: and what now? so i turned another one into rubble, who cares? at the end of the shift on station it's not reflected in any other way than extra EPs or Rank. As DeepFreeze said "Sometimes you need to feel good (or bad) about yourself". I'm sure anyone came across a friendly transport jumping into your region with a hostile fighter up his bum, and dispatched a fighter of his own to save the poor bugger from missery. feels nice when your pilots scream "Got him!". I was just thinking about applying something like this on a galactic scale.
The other thing is sudden change of targets in your tacscan from blue or green into red:
-out politcs changed, sorry, buddy, whould you like to taste our IODs?
-not at all, lads, just try my PTAs and QUESTORS first