FIXED!

as the thread's topic approaches my idea, the thread goes noplace!
was that all that hard...

Ofcourse you would know what it means, Oh Wise One Who Took Courses at MIT.

In the end you proved my point.

And by the way, this pretty much means your ideas dont exist, or our so bazzar they are sucked out of this dimmension for the sake of the survival of the universe

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dammit! what happened to my GENIUS IDEA!!!
let me post it again.
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DAMMIT!!!

*carefully walks away from Schem*

Yes, Schem. Whatever did happen to your genius idea.

I mean those stars are pretty genius, I would have never arranged them in such a wise, intelligent, and potential enlightening way.

(tries a little harder to make this obvious)
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its almost as if somebody is *COUGH* deleting *COUGH* my words, replacing them with stars. or as if they mysteriously *COUGH* DISSAPEARED *COUGH*...

Man I dont get it, is it some capatalist trick?

No wait, its your pathetic attempt at humor.

you dont do much better.

Yes, but at least I get an occasional LOL or LMAO.

Why yes indeed, I agree that colony ships should have some big armor and engines. It makes sense to run for it.

And for the empteenth time, I WAS HERE BEFORE MOO!
It's Quenya for "The glorius one"

emp. stop with the power trip.

the question here is power of guns(from nothing to decent power)

additionally how does colonizing a colonized planet work? do you have to destroy a good % of their civ first?

I think that you only colonize uninhabited planets. If someone already occupies it then you need to "persuade" the citizens to give their allegiance to you instead. "Persuade" could mean any number of things: intimidate, invade (maybe?), mind control, etc. ...Either that or blow them all off of the face of the planet and then establish your own colony.

We arent sure how we will take control of enemy planets. In the game play example it states that one of the world is being 'culture bombed' with Advent mindcontrol transmitions. The Vasari just need to gain orbital advantage and then just drain the planet of resources using their skills. While the TEC might actually have to invade, though it was stated that no ground battles are going to be in the game.

I would prefer the invasion/blow them to hell tactic. I see how mind control could come in handy though. Like on a planet that has a good industry already established. You just mind control to your will and start producing ships right off the bat.

Yep, and we already know that TEC have ships that launch thermo nuclear missles at population centers on the planets surface.

Thats all I need to read. Good ol' humans and their crude nuclear weapons.

why not acusto-nuclear? or electro-nuclear?
how can you forget nuclear-baric bombs!

Hmm neutron bombs would be better (if my info on them is correct). Bake the enemy and keep all their stuff.

What part of "TEC ships use crude kinetic weapons" dont you understand?

if you want to be so specific, a thermonuclear bomb is a crude energy weapon.

i would assume that its a mix of blockcade and bombardment,

blockcade would work because of the size of the universe involved rather that having a planet that does everything planets become specialised and are dependant on other planets for resources to survive so a blockade would help them surrender

bombardment does exactly what it says on the tin blowing the crap out of infrastructure etc,

on a side note id say that fleets have complements of marines etc to to bring order to new planets,

I know im kinda going into story mode but they a couple of ways of capturing planets in game i think will be part of the game ,

Well, I would think that if they're maneuvering around solar systems in SPACE SHIPS they would have neutron bombs which we have had since 1962.

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After reading this I see that they aren't going to leave the infrastructure intact, but they would still be useful in space or in bombardments.

I think thermo-nuclear just sounds better.



And what is kinetic supposed to mean?

kinetic is when the Ke energy is used to create damage (bullets, artillery rounds) whereas such things as missles and crude bombs use chemicals (the breaking of electron bonds), and H and A-bombs use energy (conversion of mass->energy)

of course, when inside an atmosphere chemical and energy bombs usually become baric utilizing rounds (explosives) to, using energy very close to their epicenter, and pressure from products creating pressure waves farther out.

neutron bombs in small explosives are also known as
EMPs
electromagnetic pulse devices (I'm sure you know) as of yet its extremely difficult to create a large EMP pulse without a constant supply of energy or a nuclear detonation.