[geoschmo]

As Fyron said though blockading is easily accomplished by setting the do not fire on planets option on for whichever strategy is controlling them. This will prevent your ships from glassing the planet, but will still allow them to defend themselves if attacked by ships or fighters. The one draw back is that if attacked, your ships will persue the attackers. This can bring them in range of the planets defenses. If your priority is not to damage the planet and you don't care about losing a few to weapons platform fire this won't be a problem though.

Unfortunatly another problem is that you can't make your ships attempt to capture the planet with troops, and if the invasion fails have them restrain themselves from glassing it. If you set the do not fire on planets, they will not fire, and the transport will not approach the planet because of teh waepons platforms. If you turn off the do not fire, the ships will eliminate the weapons plats and then stop firing. But if the invasion is repulsed they will begin firing again even though the planet is unarmed. What we need is an option to not fire on planets with no weapons platforms, like we have one to not fire on unarmed ships.

Geoschmo