Yeah, I think the lowly scout taking out a planet with a laser is kinda pathetic. You would have to figure that with a planet of 6 billion population, they would be able to breed faster than that scout could pick them off
I think they should make all weapons but bombs and troops useless for attacking planets. This will also force us to build bomber ships instead of just attack dreadnoughts.
I've not played multi, but with the AI I normally just build attack dreadnoughts and use them to take out planets. I don't even bother with ground combat. If I need to take over any of thier population I'll just use my subverter to take a colony ship.
This also lets me set my Strength to -50% to get more racial points =)