Planetary Bombardment

That would be cool, even just scorch mark decals or maybe some glowing core material (those nukes hit deep man).

Visually I think the nuke explosions are a little big at the moment. Anyway scaring and a color change in the atmosphere would be great additions.

I'd also like the issue of your ships colonizing a new planet while it is still being bombarded looked into....

I also thinks that you shouldnt be able to colonize a planet right after a bombardment. Maybe a planet gets a quarantine-time that ticks down after you finished your bombing.

Yeah. That would add a nice dynamic to the game. You could have nukes which would make the planet unlivable for maybe 10 minutes game time but do vast damage infrastructure and population quickly or you could have some bio weapons that target the population only and limit your max pop level for say one hour but do no harm to the infrastructure and/or high explosives that waste the infrastructure rather quickly but have little effect on the population.

Options, options and more options that is what I want.

yeah, that would be awsome!

maybe also that instead of bombing a planet, you could send down troops to the planet and kill of the people but saves most of the infrastructure.
each planet could have a certain time value/level that it would take to conquer the planet. and each extra troop ship could lower that time.
what do you think?

Well we do know there are different planetary bombardment weapons. Check the pictures. One shows like a vacum cleaner. "She's gone from suck to blow!" I love that line.

Spaceballs ftw!

Oh God, i can just see it now... a giant Mega Maid arriving from Phase space.

spaceballs

man there goes the property values

yEs!