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Conquering Planet:why only bombardment

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Conquering Planet:why only bombardment

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Hi

My first post just bought the game about a week ago. So far so good but was wondering about planet invasion.

It appears that all you can do once you clear up the off planet stuff is bombard the planet and start again. Ideally what I would like to see is the ability like say in "Imperium Galactic 2" to be able to invade the planet and take over their resources and stuff. It would certainly save some of my resources. Also it would add another dimension to the game.

Is this practicable in this game? Is it desirable?

The game itself is fun but I find the planet aspect a bit disappointing, given that you cannot go planetside or see what your improvements do to the planet. Whilst I think that the tactics and strategy side are very good (I have only tried small games) they seem to be samy. As I said I have only played small stuff so maybe bigger maps might offer a different insight.

Anyway looking forward to future iterations of the game and I do like Stardock’s approach to gaming very refreshing.

 

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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top
I think that by using culture you should be able to lower a planets loyalty and then when it reaches a certain percent say 40% or 30% the defences around the planet should stop working or be less effective. This would make it much easier to conquer a planet and you wouldn't have to go through and destroy every facility.

also there should be a button in the fleet tactics menu that allows you to tell your fleet to focus only on one thing. e.g. capital ship/research labs/factories/etc.
Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top
Oh, golly, no. Distant newly conquered planets already start out with allegiance less than that until you can get a media building spreading culture in the area.

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Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top

 So, do the population numbers represent the administrative personel or war refugees turned citizens.

Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top

Wow, 2.5 year bump.  Is that a local record?

 

To answer your question: there has never been a canonical explanation of what the "population" number in-game actually means.  Really, you can view it however you like, the game leaves much to the imagination.