magic9mushroom wrote on Thu, 15 October 2020 22:48

Oh, there is one thing that you save by popdropping the same turn you bombed/packeted a planet clean, which is the coloniser. You can popdrop at WP1 on the same turn, avoiding a need to recolonise.

(You still don't get to steal tech, though.)

Have you tested this enough times? I'm pretty sure you can get tech if you popdrop the same turn even if the planet goes down to 0 colonists before dropping. Same mechanic as popdrop after colonists have been lifted up.