Sure thing, you just need to treat the base like a lean machine. Build walls with the minimum thickness that still keeps the stress under the maximum load, use double‑layer walls only where the threat level justifies it, and place turrets on a 3‑by‑3 grid so you get the most firepower per unit of material. Then map your resource pipelines on a simple grid – keep the roads straight, no twists, and make sure every factory is two tiles from a storage hub so the transfer speed stays high. If you do that, the base will hold up and the extra cost stays under budget.