List Horrible Ways To Eliminate Populations
 

If you happen to ever get to the point where your empire is over populated, here are some easy steps to eliminate populations.

1. Up load population onto a transport and then eject them into space.
2. Up load population onto a transport then scrap it.
3. Up load population onto a transport, and then find a black hole and forget em.
4. Blow up the planet
5. Blow up the star, and reform the planets.
6. Give the planet to an enemy, then attack it.

Ok, its late, and yes, I am tired. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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...gift a crowded planet to AI, accidentally drop a plague bomb, capture the planet, spread the pop.

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Make a *very expensive* transport that also can't move. Load it up with population. Give it to a poor AI and watch the sucker rust away.

Phoenix-D

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Load pop on transport. Change the transport's strategy to kamakazi. Send it to go play with the enemy.

Or just use the transport as a "mine sweeper".

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Assume you have a 1kg squirrel
E=mc^2
E=1kg(3x10^8m/s)^2=9x10^16J
which, if I'm not mistaken, is equivilent to roughly a 50 megaton nuclear bomb.
Fear the squirrel.

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Spacing is the only way to dispose of population.....

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Low-level plague on a planet with a high-level replicant center. The population will never go away entirely; it will exist for all time in an endless cycle of born->suffer->die. Build a shipyard on the planet and force them to continue building warships for you. Station a large garrison of troops on the planet permanently.

Don't _let_ them die.

No, I wouldn't do something like this. though I'm considering the "throw them into a black hole" option in one of my games right now, depending on how the diplomacy swings. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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capture a colony ship or pop transport. fly it into orbit its native planet and let the weapon platforms shoot it down.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Atrocities:
If you happen to ever get to the point where your empire is over populated, here are some easy steps to eliminate populations.

1. Up load population onto a transport and then eject them into space.
2. Up load population onto a transport then scrap it.
3. Up load population onto a transport, and then find a black hole and forget em.
4. Blow up the planet
5. Blow up the star, and reform the planets.
6. Give the planet to an enemy, then attack it.

Ok, its late, and yes, I am tired. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I thought you could not scrap a ship containing cargo? Apparently this restriction is only effective for units? Can you mothball a ship containing population? What happens to the population when you unmothball, I wonder?

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Excuse my ignorance, it's been awhile since I played, but....

Why would you want to reduce the population levels?

Or are we just considering it for pure sadism purposes? http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Make them into Soylent Green...