Planetary extermination

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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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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The option would be nice. Against stronger opponents, sometimes scorched earth is necessary.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Nope
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I want to use espionage to assassinate the other alien leaders at the UP votes. Hee hee hee hee....
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
how bout you can abandon a planet and reduce it to uninhabitiable on your way out.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
>>I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. -- Aliens
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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.
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
#7 by Citizen lascivio
Monday, March 13, 2006 7:13 PM


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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).
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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..
Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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.