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Originally posted by Snap Spelljammer:
Yeah, I think the lowly scout taking out a planet with a laser is kinda pathetic. You would have to figure that with a planet of 6 billion population, they would be able to breed faster than that scout could pick them off 
I think they should make all weapons but bombs and troops useless for attacking planets. This will also force us to build bomber ships instead of just attack dreadnoughts.
That would make Weapon Platforms invulnerable to normal ships. If you could make normal weapons have a far higher damage per population ration than ground attack weapons it would make more sense. Ordinary beams ought to have 100:1 or so damage to kill population. So, you could harass a planet with beam ships but it would be almost impossible to destroy it. Then if "Planetary Napalm" and other ground attack weapons did closer to 10:1 population damage you'd really want to have some ships with those weapons to attack planets once your warships had taken out the WPs.
[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 02 January 2001).]