Hello! The team is aware of this issue but also out on holiday, we expect them to get a fix out once they return early Jan

Just be patient everyone, it's the Christmas break. The developers and team deserve a well earned break. Have a very merry christmas to you all

I wanted to add some info from my game yesterday where I ran into this. I had a starbase that was under attack. I had been using abilities up to this time. When my starbase went into crippled mode, after that, the unity abilities were no longer available. At least that is what seemed to have happened as I think that was the first instance of any of my capital/starbases being crippled.

Hope this helps.

Not at that location that I can remember as I was bringing in my fleet to try and support the starbase. It got there but not in time to save the starbase from being crippled.

I just finished a long multiplayer game, about eight hours and never had an issue as I did not let any of my ships or bases go into crippled status. I would move them out of combat before they got crippled and none of my starbases were threatened enough to have been crippled.

Hope this helps.