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    Destroying colony pods

    I don't know if this has been discussed before.

    Why isn't destroying colony pods an atrocity? Of course, I have only used it against the aliens, whose bases will drop to pop 1 with colony pods running off in random directions.

    Still, this is pretty bad.
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    Because only the aliens drop to size 1 and spam pods on capture. Human bases just lose 1 pop.
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    • #3
      I love the alien colony pods. They look like extravagant ottomans or Rococo footrests.
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      • #4
        I've often wondered why attacking bases with mind worms isn't an atrocity. And also why the bases don't suffer population loss as the worms EET DAH BRAINZ of the inhabitants.

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        • #5
          Whuh? The colonists on the colony pod are armed with basic handweapons, therefore it shouldn't be an atrocity. I blow up pods as soon as I detect them. Doesn't matter if its alien or human, better to destroy the pod as soon as possible lest they establish a base that could become a bigger nuisance later.
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          • #6
            Heh, not an atrocity. Its only 1000 people.

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            • #7
              1 death is a tragedy, 1000 is a stat
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              • #8
                Shush, Hiveling

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                • #9
                  I'm the one to deny people rights not you !
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Lazerus
                    1 death is a tragedy, 1000 is a stat
                    A zero more ore less, who cares, but aren't it 10.000 ?
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                    • #11
                      What the original quote ? no it's 1million. As for the colony pods, your guess is as good as anybodies really.

                      Although if i remember right when you obliterate a base it says doesn't it ?
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                      • #12
                        It starts as a Civ2 mission to Alpha Centauri, which would have 10k-40k people. The pods that make it to the surface are survivors of the sabotaged mission, 1000 each.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Lazerus
                          What the original quote ? no it's 1million. As for the colony pods, your guess is as good as anybodies really.

                          Although if i remember right when you obliterate a base it says doesn't it ?
                          Yep. Obliterating a base of size 1 says killing 10.000 and since a CP reduces pop by one, then it would be a prudent guess that those 10.000 are in the CP - I'm not sure that I want to know what happened to the other 9000 if a CP only caries 1.000
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                          • #14
                            War is hell as they say
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                            • #15
                              What's even more fun is Planet Bustering a colony pod that's in the middle of transit between two or more enemy bases.

                              But then THAT is an atrocity....unless you repeal the charter like I like to do.
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