Weapon of coice for glassing a homeworld?

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by CW:
Damage Points To Kill One Population := 200

Just increase this number to a hugh amount in your settings.txt and do the same for your planetary weapons. That will mostly solve the problem but your "nuclear" capital ship missiles will will hardly kill anyone.

No, that falls onto one horn of precisely the dilemma we are trying to avoid. Planetary weapons will then be able to smash WPs to dust.

We need to be able to damage WPs in a reasonable way with standard weapons without being able to wipe out the population, and able to damage population with planetary weapons without being able to effortlessly annihilate WPs. We cannot 'balance' the system with the available options. Either standard ship weapons are too powerful against planets or 'planetary' weapons are too powerful against planets. The problem is just that.

[ June 27, 2002, 22:54: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Phoenix-D]

"No, that falls onto one horn of precisely the dilemma we are trying to avoid. Planetary weapons will then be able to smash WPs to dust."

Bump the WP's health up then. Fairly simple to add a WP-only mount that adds large amounts of hit points to them (troops too, though that's a bit diceyer). Then only facilities are vulnerable.

Phoenix-D

[Wardad]

Originally posted by Wardad:
MOO2 simply cut beam weapon strength in half for planet attacks. Missles and bombs were not reduced. I just swarmed the planets with missiles.

Anyway, it seems like a nice fix. But I'm not sure if it would be easy to do in SEIV.

It maybe easier to add special WP armor and double planetary weapon power.

You may only want to double the planetary napalm.
WP armor, ie total unit damage resistance, could be easily increased by raising damage resistance of WP computer. Only drawback is that it does not scale with WP size.

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[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Bump the WP's health up then. Fairly simple to add a WP-only mount that adds large amounts of hit points to them (troops too, though that's a bit diceyer). Then only facilities are vulnerable.

Actually facilities would not be vulnerable. They are destroyed according to the ratio of population that is killed off, so they are as strong or as weak as you make the population.

Geoschmo