Originally Posted by Figment
...Okay, you're not getting it.
You can't be in 20 places at once. So what you do is leave alarms in places you can't be due to being required elsewhere, in order to return or at least prepare the next place once something happens. You do this, SINCE YOU DON'T KNOW IF SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE THERE AND AT THE TIME OF LEAVING CE, THERE ARE NO ENEMIES THERE. Menial task would be guard duty of something that may not see action at all. That is not the point of the game and as long as there are no enemies there, you're not aiding your empire at all by simply guarding and staring in the distance.
Did you ever play resec team much, or at all? Resec teams are vital to the empire, but they can't be everywhere at once, they need information on where they need to be and when and they can't do their job by spreading out over every empty base everywhere because then they are too dispersed to be of any use.
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And you don't seem to get that a sensor can not only fulfill the role of an alarm but it can do it better than a turret. This mean a player doesn't need to stick around in the event of an empty base.