Drones: Magic Cheat?

[Baron Munchausen]

I can see how this would appear 'wrong' but I think it's not appropriate to call it a cheat. Maybe it would be better to call it a balance problem. Being able to fire a single weapon at a planet and destroy it would seem to be unfair. A colony on a planet represents vast amounts of population and infrastructure spread over a great deal of territory. Blowing all of it up at once when it may not all be on the same continent would seem to require a doomsday sort of weapon that should be more expensive to develop and build, and more difficult to use. This is related to the problems we have discussed before about how easy it is to slag a planet from space with standard weapons.

[ 29 March 2002: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]