Obliteration

You can't do that directly but I've seen a class 26 reduced to a class 2 when the torians and the dreadlords kept attacking each other with mass drivers. You could fill a few transports with troops, conquer the planet using mass drivers, gift it back and attack again until the planet is basically useless.

I think terror stars in DA will allow you to do a similar thing but I'm not 100% sure of that.

It would be cool to research a super weapon aka Death Star 1 or 2 like, or the 3rd version which could blow up a star (cant remember the name). That would be cool, if balanced out and implemented well. Or it could be even more fun to have a scorched earth option for colonies you take over, so you can make it uninhabitable for however long.

Terror stars sound cool though, whatever they are

I think terror stars in DA will allow you to do a similar thing but I'm not 100% sure of that.

Terror Stars will not be in DA.

You can't do that directly but I've seen a class 26 reduced to a class 2 when the torians and the dreadlords kept attacking each other with mass drivers. You could fill a few transports with troops, conquer the planet using mass drivers, gift it back and attack again until the planet is basically useless.

That's brilliant, in a hideously terrifying sort of way....

[InvTactic InternalName="MassDrivers"]
[DisplayName]Mass Drivers[/DisplayName]
[Description]By attaching drive-thrusters to nearby asteroids, we'll be able to use the space boulders as large-scale projectile weapons. While the attack will be almost unstoppable, destruction on a planet-wide level is inevitable.[/Description]
[Tech_Requirement]Planetary Bombardment[/Tech_Requirement]
[Image]Tactics_Meteor[/Image]
[Cost]200[/Cost]
[LuckFactor]0[/LuckFactor]
[PreRequirement]0[/PreRequirement]
[PreReqValue]0[/PreReqValue]
[BonusType]1[/BonusType]
[BonusValueMin]100[/BonusValueMin]
[BonusValueMax]200[/BonusValueMax]
[PlanetQualityPenaltyMin]10[/PlanetQualityPenaltyMin]
[PlanetQualityPenaltyMax]50[/PlanetQualityPenaltyMax]
[InfluencePenaltyMin]0[/InfluencePenaltyMin]
[InfluencePenaltyMax]0[/InfluencePenaltyMax]
[ImprovementPenaltyMin]50[/ImprovementPenaltyMin]
[ImprovementPenaltyMax]100[/ImprovementPenaltyMax]
[/InvTactic]

Here is the data for Mass Drivers in InvTactics.xml.

It seems it should be easy to create an upgraded version that sets:
[PlanetQualityPenaltyMin]100[/PlanetQualityPenaltyMin]
[PlanetQualityPenaltyMax]100[/PlanetQualityPenaltyMax]

[ImprovementPenaltyMin]100[/ImprovementPenaltyMin]
[ImprovementPenaltyMax]100[/ImprovementPenaltyMax]

which should render the planet barren and unusable.

Sun Crusher...the Star Wars thing that could blow up star systems was called a Sun Crusher. It used a resonance torpedo to cause a star to immediatly explode into a supernova, thus obliterating the entire solar system...I too would love to harness a power such as this...we need more permanent devastation weapons in GalCiv...Mwahahahaha....

lol, while I'd love to have one, I'd be afraid in some my tougher games where I get behind, the AI would get it before me, and then run around and cause all my stars to go nova...

Terror Stars will not be in DA.

In 1.3 you can destroy a colony once you own it and it becomes class 0.

In 1.3 you can destroy a colony once you own it and it becomes class 0.

cool, no more wasting multiple colonizers on a class 4 or 5 world that is in your home system but you don't want, or some other crappy planet.

It will not be fun as destroy an enemy planet but it will be usefull... Thanks Frogboy!