PBW Idea - Population Victory

[geoschmo]

I think that even without limiting reproduction, glassing should not be penalized. It's a self defeating strategy anyway with this kind of victory condition since it's more efficent to capture populations intact then to glass them and then grow your own. That alone is enough of a penalty.

Plus a valid defensive strategy in this would be to use enough troops to repel invaders and cause the destruction of your planets rather than risk them falling into enemy hands. Heck, you might even want to abandon planets you know you are going to lose anyway, unless you think you can take them back sometime soon. I could see a case where a player might 'accidentally' wipe out the Last of a race that was doing this sort of thing.

Geoschmo