Easy way to take over FE planet

[Agamemnic]

Defeating +3000k FE armies is such eye-gouging tedium

But neutron sweep = pop loss and loss of building slots (and hence those sweet FE buildings) - I find this new mechanic entirely nonsensical but w/e

So is there any easier way to takeover an FE planet and access all the buildings?

 

[Bouchart]

Nope. If you want those planets you need to take them the hard way.

 

[kirell]

But neutron sweep = pop loss and loss of building slots (and hence those sweet FE buildings) - I find this new mechanic entirely nonsensical but w/e

Was that changed? I thought the whole point of neutron sweep was to keep the planet intact and only kill its owners...?

 

[Agamemnic]

Was that changed? I thought the whole point of neutron sweep was to keep the planet intact and only kill its owners...?

Becuase building slots are tied to pop count, lower pop count actually locks out building slots and destroys the building.

 

[Khunter]

uh.. resettle pops and rebuild ruined buildings? not that difficult if you can take down a FE.

 

[Piotrzeci]

uh.. resettle pops and rebuild ruined buildings? not that difficult if you can take down a FE.

But maybe the buildings can't be rebuild, if you don't have the technology to build them.

 

[Khunter]

FE buildings aren't tied to researchable techs afaik. Otherwise you could build them on your own planets and they would be overpowered.

 

[The Founder]

Becuase building slots are tied to pop count, lower pop count actually locks out building slots and destroys the building.

It ruins buildings. They can still be repaired from that, once the popuplation supports that slot again.

 

[scaper12123]

Ahahahahaha

no

 

[Masoz]

So I just tested it and it seems that indeed you can repair FE buildings now as long as you hit the pop requirement. I was actually playing several games where I danced around that because I assumed you couldn't.

So yeah... feel free to Neutron Sweep the hell out of them.

 

[Agamemnic]

So I just tested it and it seems that indeed you can repair FE buildings now as long as you hit the pop requirement. I was actually playing several games where I danced around that because I assumed you couldn't.

So yeah... feel free to Neutron Sweep the hell out of them.

Thanks my dude!

 

[gareaap]

so i need to pick a ascension perk soley for ~4 planets

 

[Defiler99]

Personally I just bombard them until the armies are almost gone, and then invade. Tedious, but seems like the best intersection of war-exhaustion and reward.

 

[Bankipriel]

Personally I just bombard them until the armies are almost gone, and then invade. Tedious, but seems like the best intersection of war-exhaustion and reward.

One must pray that the Trade Rats offer to sell their garbage bombing technology, as well. +25% bombardment damage per outfitted "A" slot seems worth the upgrade cost by the time I'm looking to bombard FE worlds. Pretty nice tech, if you can get it.

 

[Browser]

Driven Assimilator: "Nanomachines son"

Basically their Colossus weapon is their perfect hard pull against these Fortress Worlds.

 

[bobucles]

Don't worry. Those FE buildings have been working for thousands of years without a day of maintenance. They'll survive a few months without pops so just rebuild them after the population builds up again.

 

[Sinister2202]

I either do neutron sweep or go in with 88 stacks of gene warriors and resettle FE species to my xeno slave petting zoo.

 

[Bankipriel]

I knew ruined buildings can be repaired. But just to be clear, a depopulated world does *not* have it's ruined buildings totally destroyed? (i.e. after neutron sweeping a planet, and sending a new colony ship to re-colonize it, the ruined buildings are still there?)

 

[fall back]

so i need to pick a ascension perk soley for ~4 planets

And a total war cb on the rest of the galaxy makeing conquest so much easier

 

[bobucles]

I a depopulated world does *not* have it's ruined buildings totally destroyed?

Should it? Abandoned worlds keep their stuff, they don't suddenly stop being worlds. You can't control the order in which buildings get ruined but ruined FE buildings can be rebooted without any issue.