[Alpha Kodiak]

I have one other thought on killing planetary populations. When you kill off an entire planet worth of people, the planetary conditions should not be very good. Last night I started a new game on a small map and encountered an enemy in an adjacent system very early in the game.

I glassed his home world in three turns with two frigates using DUCs and CSMs. The interesting thing was that, since we were both rock-oxygen types, I moved a colony transport over next to his planet so that when I killed the Last of his population, I was immediately able to colonize the planet.

You would think that with 2 billion dead bodies lying around, caused by dozens of nuclear missile strikes, that the conditions would not have been ideal for immediate colonization.

I would propose that the condition of a planet should be degraded as damage was done. Even if the AI had accepted my demands for surrender after the population was reduced to about 5 million (a loss of 1.995 billion population), I would think that the conditions on the planet would be rather harsh. The population would probably need a lot of assistance from the outside, just to survive.