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Re: Getting really frustrated with some things

Thu, 11 February 2016 11:19

Question

Petty Officer 3rd Class

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Registered: February 2007

Also i dont get how you are supposed to bomb planets. Firstly there appears to be no way to get your bombers in orbit to NOT bomb the planet or stop at a certain level...the main problem i have is trying to bomb the planet to take out colonists without killing the factories (since rebuilding factories tends to take forever).

Normal bombs will generally destroy almost all factories before you can get the pop low enough to take it with troops. It also seems quite easy for a bombing fleet to kill either too much pop (forcing you to use a colony ship which is pretty dumb, since all the buildings and such should still be there) or too little pop (in which case your invading force gets killed).

Anti-building bombs seem pointless, since you generally dont want to kill the factories.

Smart bombs have the problem that defences remain active and will take out 75% of your invasion force...which can get expensive very quickly (e.g. if your assault force is 400k, it will take a 600k planet many turns to regrow that pop unless you are IS and can reproduce in freighters. Oddly enough it seems that IS pop grows VERY quickly in freighters compared to planet side...)

Is there a trick to this?

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		Getting really frustrated with some things By: Question on Wed, 10 February 2016 15:26
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: Altruist on Thu, 11 February 2016 11:18
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: m.a@stars on Thu, 11 February 2016 18:35
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: Question on Thu, 11 February 2016 11:19
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: m.a@stars on Thu, 11 February 2016 19:31
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: Altruist on Fri, 12 February 2016 10:29
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: Question on Thu, 11 February 2016 11:29
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: m.a@stars on Thu, 11 February 2016 19:48
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: Question on Fri, 12 February 2016 11:46
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: m.a@stars on Fri, 12 February 2016 21:19
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: Question on Fri, 12 February 2016 11:54
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: m.a@stars on Fri, 12 February 2016 21:29
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: Question on Sun, 14 February 2016 08:54
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: m.a@stars on Sun, 14 February 2016 19:22
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: Question on Sun, 14 February 2016 22:16
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: m.a@stars on Mon, 15 February 2016 20:01
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: iztok on Wed, 17 February 2016 14:58
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: XAPBob on Fri, 19 February 2016 11:24
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: magic9mushroom on Mon, 30 May 2016 19:16
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: skoormit on Tue, 06 December 2016 11:32
		Re: Getting really frustrated with some things By: magic9mushroom on Tue, 06 December 2016 21:52

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