Weapon of coice for glassing a homeworld?

[Baron Munchausen]

Yes, it has always been unrealistically easy to destroy a planet with standard weapons. While I don't like the 'kludge' used by many games of requiring special ground-attack weapons to do any damage to a planet, I think we need something changed. I've been requesting MM to create a special power to cancel the planetary damage ratio for certain weapons. Then we could crank that ratio up very high and make it very difficult to completely destroy anything but a very new/small colony with standard weapons. Planetary weapons would then really be worth something because they'd be 100+ times more efficient than standard ship-to-ship weapons for ground attack.