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Is there ground combat?

April 25, 2007 11:42:14 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
I know SOASE doesn't include RTS ground combat, but is there at least troop movement included to conquer/occupy planets?
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Reply #1 April 25, 2007 11:44:29 AM
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Not currently, no. You basically just nuke it and plant a new flag.
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Reply #2 April 25, 2007 11:49:21 AM
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The nuke the planet thing is still funny, because you can launch colony pods at a planet while it is still being nuked!

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Reply #3 April 25, 2007 12:08:07 PM
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No raid, no pillage, no conquest, no enslaving?

You took the whole fun out of warfare!



So... This game..

It's "Starship Trooper"'s Navy dream..

"The Navy thinks it can run the whole war alone. It thinks we could simply nuke every planet from orbit, and it would be the end of it, and that the Army is unnecessary."

(ever read the novel?)
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Reply #4 April 25, 2007 12:33:21 PM
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I saw the movie.... Co-ed Showers!

Also I found a pic of possible IN GAME ground combat!



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Reply #5 April 25, 2007 12:42:55 PM
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I have read the Starship Trooper's novel, the movies adapt was meh. THERE is raiding (destruction of trade ship benefit the guy destroying it) not currently in the beta yet, and there is marauding pirate elemental that we current have no idea about so they may involve bit of pillage or whatever. As for ground combat, of course, you can take over a planet WITH population on it from the previous empire(conquest).
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Reply #6 April 25, 2007 4:13:31 PM
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There's no ground combat in the game and none is planned.
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Reply #7 April 25, 2007 5:41:30 PM
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I was speaking of taking over planet with population when you sent colony ship. Just to clear it up.
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Reply #8 April 25, 2007 11:38:24 PM
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Hmmmm, if you destroy a planet's infrastructure without killing it's population totally off, do you get to keep that pop number when you colonize it?
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Reply #9 April 26, 2007 9:27:31 AM
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As far as I know, you can't wipe out one without the other...   

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Reply #10 April 26, 2007 9:36:41 AM
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Hmmmm, if you destroy a planet's infrastructure without killing it's population totally off, do you get to keep that pop number when you colonize it?

As far as I know, you can't wipe out one without the other...


Actually I've had it happen once, but I wasn't able to reproduce it.
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Reply #11 April 26, 2007 2:12:34 PM
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I can reproduce it so far Kryo even entire galaxy worth of population. Yarlen How you get it to happen is that you set the battle to be "Flagship suicide", then you build 50 frigates to rush the enemy flagships and you GET both infrastructure and population INTACT. Here some proofs.



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Reply #12 April 26, 2007 2:32:14 PM
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7000/1500 infrastructure? I'm betting Ironclad will want to see that...
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Reply #13 April 26, 2007 4:14:52 PM
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Yep whenever I colony bugged infrastructure or planet with more pop than possible they alway go down the the level 1 level. Which meant I colony the one with 7k it will go down to 1.5k and have more than an empty planet. Same for population.
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Reply #14 April 26, 2007 5:43:18 PM
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I was thinking in "raiding" like attacking the ennemy planets with small forces to destroy infrastructures, lower morale and stealing money out of it.


But that will be for a possible expension, of SoaSE 2, maybe.. Sins of a Lunar Empire
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Reply #15 April 26, 2007 5:47:03 PM
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or SoaIGDCE. Sins of an Intergalactic Dust Cluster Empire!
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Reply #16 April 26, 2007 6:27:58 PM
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7000/1500 infrastructure? I'm betting Ironclad will want to see that...


Hey ... doesn't it sound a little similar to one of the old bug in Dread Lord?

(After an invasion the population on a planet just suddenly sky rocket).

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Reply #17 April 26, 2007 9:21:42 PM
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After an invasion the population on a planet just suddenly sky rocket

not only are my troops better, they are more fertile.   
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Reply #18 April 27, 2007 9:55:53 AM
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How you get it to happen is that you set the battle to be "Flagship suicide", then you build 50 frigates to rush the enemy flagships and you GET both infrastructure and population INTACT. Here some proofs.


Can you be a bit more specific about what exactly you're doing?
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Reply #19 April 27, 2007 1:27:43 PM
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He means set the game mode to "last flagship standing." When you kill an enemy flagship, their empire is defeated so all of their ships/structures blow up and their planets become neutral. Thus, their colony has been "wiped out" without you actually bombarding it. So the population and infrastructure remain undamaged. But, the problem comes when the planet's level goes back to 1 but the infrastructure and population remain at their max from the level it was at before.
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Reply #20 April 27, 2007 1:39:40 PM
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Ah, ok. When I ended up with a planet that had people left on it after bombardment though, I wasn't playing in that mode. So there must be a couple of ways to get the issue to occur.
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Reply #21 April 27, 2007 1:43:14 PM
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I have no idea how to reproduce your problem kryo.
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