YEEHAA! I did it! I did it!

[CW]

The date is August 2413, a really special month for the people of CW's Dictatorship! For their new Sphereworld has just been completed, after almost 5 years of hard and sometimes boring work. The Sit of Power of the CW's Dictatorship will shortly be transfered to the new, giant and monumental capital. A competition is currently being held to select a name for the new capital planet, and the best entry will win... well... can you expect anything at all from a dictator? Anyway, the best entry will be selected as the offical name for our great capital!

[CW]

That reminds me of a question: Say your enemy has a fully populated sphereworld with no troops on it, how many troops to you need to capture it??

[Taqwus]

Well, there's one militia per 20M, and they're supposedly 10 large planets in size, so that's what, 40B people? That would translate to 2000 militia.

My experience suggests that even with decent large troops, it's best to drop more troops than militia if you want to take the planet in one turn. Keep in mind that the first (several) wave(s) might get completely annihilated by sheer numbers...

It might take you less time (6 years) to build your own sphereworld than to train and gather those troops.

So, basically, it'd be easier to use PPP, if you're not willing to bring out the planetary napalm.

Or, bLast it to Deadly using contamination ops, sabotage the facilities, and use anarchy Groups so it riots.


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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[CW]

On to riots, I'm running a pretty good sized empire with more than 200 planets and 180 ships. It seems that as the empire gets larger more nasty things happen. I'm seeing a lot more riots than I used to, and I have to put aside a whole invasion fleet just to keep the peace. But 20 Big-Gun DNs overhead and a ship load of shock troops calms the people down REALLY quickly though!


[This message has been edited by CW (edited 08 August 2001).]

[DirectorTsaarx]

Build an Urban Pacification Center in every system; that'll help quiet the rioting.

Of course, if you have temporal tech, the Temporal Vacation Service facility provides twice the happiness bonus of a UPC. Keeps those populations Jubilant...

[rdouglass]

Also Religious Tech has the Fate Shrines. Those increase happiness as well...