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Originally posted by KiloOhm:
Do you get free tech from conquering planets? I always glass em because it's a lot easier than building troops (I haven't even seen a ground battle yet! 
No, you don't get any technology for conquering a planet, and that's why it's easier to just vaporize your enemies. We've been asking MM to allow this somehow, perhaps by allowing facilities to be "analyzed" like ships. You'd then have an incentive to capture planets rather than 'glass' them.
