How does one attack planets with present bugs?

[javaslinger]

Given the present bombardment bugs causing certain planets to be nary invincible and certain weapons to be largely impotent against them...

What strategies are people using to get around this?

As I understand it, DUC's and even some planetary weapons are useless against planets... yet, we can't just let our opponents planets keep churning out fighting vessels and research points and minerals can we???

So are people entirely foregoing certain weapons types? Are DUC's entirely useless at the moment even in the early stages? Are we forced to rely soley on anti-proton beams?

Certainly some of this is covered in other threads, but I'd be interested in a concise discussion about what to do given where the game is presently...

Thanks,

Javaslinger

[AgentZero]

Personally I just take a medium tech start with either low or medium tech costs. This is plenty to start the game with APBs, and I've found that Balance Mod AIs will pretty much always grab APBs if they can get them too. There does seem to be a problem even with APBs and ringworlds though. Basically, a ship won't fire on a planet unless it can hit the centre of the planet. With ringed planets, the ring prevents the ships from getting close enough to fire, thus resulting in invincible planets, until you get some nice long ranged weapons.

[Q]

Sorry AgentZero, but this is not correct.
You can hit ringed planet with rather short range weapons (small anti proton beams), but you can't with DUC even if the DUC has much larger range.

[AgentZero]

That'll learn me to not bother testing things out firsthand. I stand corrected. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[Raapys]

So projectile weapons are the problem with Ringworlds? The projectiles hit the rings instead of the actual planet?

[jfp3]

No it has something to do with targeting the "center" of the planet, not the "surface" which would be much closer. At least that's what I read in a recent post (I forget the name).