Thanks for replying. I see the point, but think it is quite unlogical story wise.... also this could be misused to destroy planets and "remove them from the game", for example during extended wars.

The sun keeps reporting a colonized planet by the way.

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Tokla

That's not the type of exploit Kryo was talking about. Yes, that is technically cheating, but overall not that big of a deal. The scenario this is intended to defeat goes something like this:

Ooh, I found a class 10 with a 700% manufacturing bonus on it. Save/reload until I get a + production bonus when colonizing. Destroy colony, repeat until I get another + production. Repeat until I have 300% or more production bonus on one planet, simply from colonizing events. Or do the same with research bonuses. Add in +PQ events for a seriously large planet to boot.

The same could be done with soldiering, planetary defense, or influence - all of those colonization bonuses are empire wide to cause even more cheese-related chaos.

Each iteration of this exploit would only cost IIRC 68bc and 1 million people, plus travel time for the ships. Not a bad price to pay to get one planet with more manufacturing or research capability than most empires.

Agreed, but it just does not make any sense. Why should a planet suddenly be unihabitable? The Korath have a spore ship, i.e. a unique technology, to do so, but basically any player can get the same effect after conquering without having control over some special technology. Destroying planets should only be possible using some kind of tech.

I also think that the destroy-recolonize strategy could be avoided by simple programming, i.e. save plant settings once first colonized and not re-randomizing each time. Its as simple as that.