Planetary extermination

Is there any way to just nuke planets from orbit and forget the whole invasion part? i would rather exterminate my foes instead of dominate their planets.
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No nuking from orbit, either take a planet with transports or through influence. I guess its a balance issue, but on the bright side in a planetary invasion your exterminating every former inhabitant.
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This was in the last GalCiv! I want this feature back! No more schlumping around in the mud for my elite troopers! I wish to sterilize planets from orbit with my fusion missles or death ray beams!
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The option would be nice. Against stronger opponents, sometimes scorched earth is necessary.
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Nope
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I want to use espionage to assassinate the other alien leaders at the UP votes. Hee hee hee hee....
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It wasn't put in as games that have it tend to degenerate into killer fleets running about wiping out colonies as it's the simplest way to win.
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how bout you can abandon a planet and reduce it to uninhabitiable on your way out.
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>>I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. -- Aliens
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You could invade with a few soldiers but keep using mass drivers and make the planet uninhabitable.

Nothing like having a moon sticking out of a planet to make it hard to colonize.
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Diplomat Ugleb - It wasn't put in as games that have it tend to degenerate into killer fleets running about wiping out colonies as it's the simplest way to win.


2 possible ways to game-balance that: Each time you destroy a planet, your approval rating (your own colonies) goes down. And/or your relations with other empires takes a hit.

I'd add 'limit it to evil' empires - but that wouldn't be an unbiased opinion...



Jon
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#7 by Citizen lascivio
Monday, March 13, 2006 7:13 PM


Trolling
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how bout you can abandon a planet and reduce it to uninhabitiable on your way out.



You already can, you go to the planet screen, then details, then "destroy colony". It lower teh PQ aobut 2 ranks, but it's definitly an option (I used it heavily agains teh Dread Lords).
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or you could try modding one of the invasion tactics you never use so that it would lower PQ by 100%

I believe someone modded it to work like that..
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I think it'd be cool if you could build a Celine Dion on the orbit and it'd make people flee the planet. That'd be more efficient than a hydrogen bomb.