Bombard or Colonize......

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I'm sure it's been discussed before,

You should have the option when attacking a planet to either bombard a planet and make it turn dark grey and be useless for the entire game.( Or puufffff and gone , even better!) This would be when you have plenty of income and the planet is of no srtategic use...just deny it to your enemy.

OR assault a planet with drop ships and then colonize it with basiclly the same mechanic as the current game. Minus the bombarding of course.......

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

You can always do the scorched-earth thing as an ability :P There is a way to permanently render a planet uncolonizeable. Won't be "official", but hey :P

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

 

Kind of like scuttling neutral extractors...  Being able to permanently kill planets would have a huge effect on game play.  I don't see why a mod couldn't be released so that it can be tested, but I certainly don't want that feature as part of the standard game.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Supposedly you are not really nuking the whole world, just the enemy bunkers and control points on the ground.  I guess Heavy Fallout and Novaliths are the exception, where it is hard to live afterwards.  I think it is one of those things where gritty realism is glossed over a bit for multiplayer game mechanics.