Conquering planets.

[Paul1980au]

Conquering planets in tact is stock of my game (except for moons with 1 mining or resource gathering facility) if its a shipyard or resupply base take it otherwise glass it - bigger planets are where you need to take first. population is everything so maximise their movements.

We have discussed if yu have 2 or 3 different atmosphere races and a domed planet with a urban pacification facility and captured races that can breathe the atmostphere to move all the domed pop off and replace with the atmosphere breathers on the lareger planets it goes from 6 facilties (domed) up to 20 or 30 and you can build much more facilities on non domed planets - and if you are capturing planets - take along a transport with a few WP for larger planets (saves building them and youre outward invasion can go much quicker) instead of having to wait for defenses to be built before moving outwards.

[Abdiel]

How do you tell what facilities a planet has? Will a scanner do? I haven't tried, sorry.

So far the only way I can think of is going into combat, checking out the facs, then deciding. But obviously that's going to be useless for strategeic.

Abd.

[dogscoff]

How do you tell what facilities a planet has? Will a scanner do? I haven't tried, sorry.

Nope.

So far the only way I can think of is going into combat, checking out the facs, then deciding. But obviously that's going to be useless for strategeic.

You can find out from intel, and you can often spot the resupply depot by watching enemy ship movements. ditto for spaceyards, actually. Human players will generally put their spaceport on the first planet they colonise in any given system, which is usually that huge, breathable one over there with the high mineral value and the most population on it- unless there used to be ruins in the system, of course. Not sure how AIs make their choices.

Best just to capture everything and sort it out after=-)

[Paul1980au]

I go after the small planets - search no value destroy - then capture big population centres then mop up the resistance.

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
Again, bLaster bolts and the bots are two different things. Low speed vs high, and mass vs not. Setting the shield to stop bots might mean it stopping too much (eg DUST), overloading, and burning out.

As for the bombs? Well, if the movies used decent tactics they'd be a bit boring How many times has a major ship blown to a single fighter in that series, again?

I thought Stargate SG1 Technobabbled this quite well Bullets and staff bLasts couldn't penetrate shields but you could throw a knife and it would pass through (slower moving objects)

That and they made Sam Carter say it, and no self respecting Stargate SG1 fan is going to get on the wrong side of her

[minipol]

Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
That and they made Sam Carter say it, and no self respecting Stargate SG1 fan is going to get on the wrong side of her

Depends what her "wrong side" looks like

[Raging Deadstar]

Originally posted by minipol:

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Originally posted by Raging Deadstar:
That and they made Sam Carter say it, and no self respecting Stargate SG1 fan is going to get on the wrong side of her

Depends what her "wrong side" looks like

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Lol...are you going to disagree with a women who is trained in unarmed combat, probably knows 6 different ways of killing you with complex science that you will never understand and can use a P-90 expertly...I know sure as hell i'm not

If you mean in another sense then No, i don't think she has a bad side