New to game-Overwhelmed 2 (updated from '02)

[scJazz]

SilverRat said:
lol, well you folks are very helpful! thanks again.

Isn't it more 'profitable' ie cost effective to invade and not have to rebuild the colony? leaving facilities intact allows for changes if needed/ desired but provides income / bases to expand your empire with little additional effort.

I know that no 'solution' is perfect in every situation but using troops to squash the locals works well, then the population transports can drop our people, gather up all of the enemy population and take them for a ride... err space th' hmmm how to say it politically correctly... genocide? or do you suggest concentration--err relocation camps?

Glass a planet when you have no chance of holding it. Either when you lack enough defensive force to hold it against the enemy fleet coming through the warp point or when defending a secondary planet prevents the defense of a primary. Generally, I allow my somewhat over-armed recon ships to glass planets especially when I can identify the Space Port planet!