invade a planet with no pop?
 

i am in a game right now where a hated enemy has a planet in an adjacent system with no pop. i went to invade it and it won't do it. the ships just mill about.

the entire fleet is on "capture planet" strat, plenty of troops and invader transports.

anyone seen this before? thanks.

Re: invade a planet with no pop?
 

The computer will not land troops on a planet without any population on it, at least in my experience. You can manually take over planets with no population.

Re: invade a planet with no pop?
 

thanks kerensky. i did not know this.
do you know how i can "manually" take it over? i don't know that that means.

EDIT: DOH! i know what you mean, manually drop troops.
dang, i need some more coffee. i never thought of that. sheehs. thanks.

Re: invade a planet with no pop?
 

Manually dropping troops requires tactical combat. If this is a PBW, PBEM or TCP/IP game, or hotseat turn game with tactical combat disabled , you aren't going to be able to capture the planet. You'll have to slag it. Or give him time to send some people ther eand then capture it.

Re: invade a planet with no pop?
 

i thought that was fixed in the Last patch?

Re: invade a planet with no pop?
 

Yeah, it seemed to work fine when Dinesku took my planet with no population, then my satellites wiped it out, in the Junkyard 24XX game http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Re: invade a planet with no pop?
 

it's against the CPU and i can do tactical. thanks.

i just never once thought of it.

"slag it"? what does that mean?

i might not have the latest patch, i've not played SE for about 6 monthts until this game. i think i have 1.84 or something.

Re: invade a planet with no pop?
 

slag = the leftover junk from smelting ore

I.E. destroy it, reduce it to rubble.

Re: invade a planet with no pop?
 

i tried and i couldn't. it said 100% destroyed... but it was still in posession of my evil enemy. wierd.

Re: invade a planet with no pop?
 

Someone is a bit too happy with a flukey victory over a Crazy Romanian, I'm sure your empires news reports were more forgiving Ed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Bone: I've had that error a few times where the planet wouldn't be destroyed or damaged... I found if you just attacked again it would work again.