Economic War

I don't think it'll happen. If you think of how many ships would be required to blockade an entire PLANET, it's not likely. Besides, planets are self-sufficient, aside from cash. And that could be transfered digitally, planet-planet.

It's a nice idea, but I doubt it'll appear. So I'm afraid you'll have to stick to slowly buying out their trade routes.

By "buying out" I mean blowing them up and paying off the other races not to mind

Cant you put 8 ships around a planet , making it protected from invasion unless they declare war, save my friend minor race from invasion for instance ??? Or do that to some other civilization, so they cant launch ships out of their orbit?? Usefull to prevent an allied getting killed, or the AI launching constructors. Havent tryed that myself, but I remmember doing it on GalCiv1.



Monc34

Probably. They won't be able to launch anything either, so your minor friend will not be doing much.

Birth of the Federation had it, and if I remember correctly, the Master of Orion series also had orbital blockades... There you had the options of attacking the planet, bombarding the planet from the orbit, invading the planet- and to pray on the opponent's trade fleet (aka. blockade).


There was a calculator establishing you chance of suffessful blockade, based on particulary planetary trade (you would thwart a percentage (%) of total planetary trade/turn) and the set up of your blockaders: I.e. if you chose a single ship the chance of controling the orbit was rather slim- more ships meant your chances would increase. Also did the speed come into the calculus: Relatively small and agile vessels would, of course, have a higher level multiplier for successful interdicition, than large, sluggish ones.

ps. Master of Orion 2 even introduced the concept of starving out planets this way: MOO2 had excess food supplies being shuffled between planets- i.e. if Earth had excess in food resources, and if there was enough freighter capacity, it would automaticaly deliver its surpluss to, say, Denneb, where there is a chronic shortage of food (while offering space for, say, 10 billion people, the production of food would merely suffice for 8 billion- so by this clever system, MOO2 had the last 2 billion be fed by supplies from other planets- unless something would happen to your trade of course)

You could build 4 bases around the minor's world, gift them to the minor, and build 4 of your own. Then they'd be protected but not contained. Unfortunately, this would only work if they didn't already have bases in that area, but I suppose you could use your own fleets to block the spaces left open.

I actually had a game once where I needed to protect some minors but had no fleet, so I used all my spare constructors to make a couple of really good military bases by their homeworld and gift them to the minors. This boosted their ships so much that they were able to survive.   

That wouldn't work, because the AI could then attack the bases. Which is exactly what you're trying to stop.

Well I think he sayd it worked, and why wouldnt it, its just to buy some time till you can get ships there and help or just sell them some when possible. AI is just sometimes stupid, Anyways I tried the 8 ships around a planet thingy on the campaign and it works just fine and dandy, didnt let my allies invade the drengin and at the same time they couldnt launch ships cuz if they tryed they would die, so I got all their planets and won. I might try that helping the minor thing, but 1 problem is no minors appear on my games LoL



Monc34

And that could be transfered digitally, planet-planet.

Yeah but... what would they be buying if the planet is blockaded?

This boosted their ships so much that they were able to survive.

One of my favourite tactics. Much better than trying to give them state-of-the-art warships.

They don't know what end is the rear!

Yeah but... what would they be buying if the planet is blockaded?

Who said anything about buying? It's my damn empire, if I say planet X gives money to planet Y, it had better give them the damn money. I control the resources, it's basically just sharing out the excess wealth from one area to even the deficit of another. Other than financially, planets are self-sufficient.

Well I think he sayd it worked, and why wouldnt it,

Because if the AI are already at war with them, then they'll just destroy the starbases and invade. There's nothing stopping them, like surrounding it with your ships would.