And lets face it if the attacker has to fly a sector to reup why should you geet to up repeatedly from target base where is reality in that?
Ummmm.....and exactly where does "reality" come into this? Is that the part where 10 automatons glide into a slit trench to take a whole base, but only after all the buildings in a nearby town are destroyed? There's nothing realistic about the amount of ordnance needed to kill our hangars, or the way blowing up one "barrack" hut can take away a base's ability to launch capture attempts.
Remember that AH
simulates flight and combat, but that it's purely a game beyond that.