System Shields

[geoschmo]

Have the game owner take over his empire and scrap the system shield?

Yep, if he is truely "turttled" in there is nothing you can do short of calling him a weenie and booting him from the game. If he has left a planet outside the protected area and you still have contact massive intel attacks can work, but it takes a long time cause you can't direct them agasinst one planet without haveing a view of that planet.

You are talking about one system? I was playing in a game with a guy once that had system shields in all his systems, spread out over about 25 systems. He had left warp points open in a couple of key border systems, which he had heavily defended. He thought he was safe, however he had overlooked the fact that deep in his territory, two systems away from his homewolrd was a black hole system. He had system shields in all the systems around it, but since there were no planets in that system, he couldn't put a system shield there. I opened a warp point there and two turns later glassed his homeworld. His fleets raced in and nuked my fleet, but the damage had been done. And a well coordinated attack by my allies on his border systems which had now been vacated in an effort to destroy my fleet before it did any more damage to his core systems has now set his once mighty empire on a path to ruin.

My point is sometimes the most careful turtle can leave an opening accidentally. Look for one.

Geoschmo