[Arkcon]

Originally posted by rdouglass:
I totally agree with your logic Admiral. If a shield can stop a DUC (just high speed uranium pellets) or missiles, why wouldn't it stop a ship?

I suppose, if you feel you needed an explanation, the troops dropped through whatever opening the shield has to let resources generated off the planet.

I often wodered if the game would be more interesting if you could, effectively, blockade your own planets.

That is, if the defences are impenetrable -- if you mined all warp points, bases at warp points, are at war with all neighbors -- then no resources left the planets to enter your empire's economy, no resources entered to support your shipyards, and as a bonus, no intel was possible against the planet.

Meh, that's a different game than SE4, even I probably wouldn't like it

[ September 25, 2002, 19:01: Message edited by: Arkcon ]