Aurora 4x
New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: ExChairman on March 07, 2017, 01:48:24 AM
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I recently invaded a planet with a combined ground combat force of 4500, my 16 divisions needed some fire support and my navy responded with all its mighty laser cannons, pressure around .7 so they did kill a lot of enemy formations during the half hour bombardment. My liberation force now conquered them easy. BUT now I have a "small" problem...
The Atmospheric Dust Level is up to 8747... and it killing the population... strange... ::)
How loooong will it take for the dust to settle? Comparing to studies on Earth on nuclear wars it might take years if not decades. Is there a way to speed it up?
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If I recall correctly, within 360 days 100 points of that score is reduced - so 87.4 years for you to go. I don't know about any process to speed that up other than change the value in SpaceMaster-Mode.
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Then I need to increase my colony fleet to save as many as possible.
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Dust is reduced by 250 points per year.
One of the downsides of glassing the planet :)
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Aha, only some 35 years then... ;D
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Why should laser or meson or other precision weapon bombardment cause a huge dust problem? Other than to make conquest difficult and less profitable?
I get you want the main factor to be how many troops the attacker can transport in as to whether they can get a clean conquest, but there should be some factor for having control of the orbitals in ground combat that doesn't mess up the planet for decades.
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I assure you, there is a middle ground between saturation bombardment and skywriting 'surrender please :('
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I assure you, there is a middle ground between saturation bombardment and skywriting 'surrender please :('
In other words, only when skywriting 'surrender please' doesn't do the job, start earthwriting it. :D
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I assure you, there is a middle ground between saturation bombardment and skywriting 'surrender please :('
I would sat that it would be very spectacular when 20 inch laserbeam heats something up very fast, might even resemble a small nuke I presume. Not to mention the 100s of laser beans stabbing down and superheating air, probably disturbing wind patterns, at least in small areas.
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In other words, only when skywriting 'surrender please' doesn't do the job, start earthwriting it. :D
That wouldn't work, you already shot down anything that could see it from above you silly goose :D.
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Basically this, the amount of power unleashed by these lasers is basically the same as an atomic bomb. Just without the radioactive fallout.