[geoschmo]

You would be suprised how much of a differeance you will see by capturing the planets intact. Even a max pop world can only build facilities one per turn. And space ports, space yards, and resupply depots take even longer. That's a couple years for a huge planet.

Also it can be a bit demoralizing to the other player to have you come along and scoop up his planets and populations. When you glass a planet, you take from your opponent, but when you capture it you take from him and add it to yourself. Much better IMHO.

About the only time I'll move pop around is to get oxy breathers on oxy planets, etc. In fact I've been known to take a planet from an opponent just to drag the population off in chains to my core systems to get rid of those domes.

And I prefer not spending a bunch of effort transporting populations around in the middle of a war. Too much work for me. Instead of spending time moving populations around you can concetrate on keeping your juggernaut rolling.

But again it's probably more of a style differance then an actual game differance.

Geo

[ 28 December 2001: Message edited by: geoschmo ]