Posted by: StarBornMichaelh165
« on: December 31, 2016, 03:19:34 PM »I can see what your saying about the Empire needing more too it and I agree but let's not make then unbalance ok but I do like the 2% or more salvage bonuses form every battle.
That's even more powerful than planet destruction in my opinion. You could just go in, fire the laser, take out all the ground structures, which means you can immediately capture the planet whether you'd have been able to win the space battle or not.
We potentially plan to try something similar with the Duskhan League, but not the Empire of the Hand.
so, corey, I know you don't like planet destroying superweapons, but I feel the empire needs something else to help their campaign. if I remember original EaW and FOC correctly, when you had the death star over a planet in battle, there was a lever you could pull(or click) to fire the weapon. would it be possible to add that ability to eclipse, but instead of taking out the planet, take out all structures on the surface? if it can, that would flesh out legends in the mod just a bit more. if not, oh well.
also, you mentioned that certain planets can be locked till a certain era, but can you rig the game to not unlock planets till a certain week? if so, this can keep the Hand(and potentially the Dushkan league) from being taken out right of the bat.