I sent some attack ships to attack a basic Scylior planet (0 shields and 0 weapons) which had a Sentry in orbit.Geoff the Medio wrote:The test for planet incapacitation also requires that the construction meter be reduced to zero.
I thought combat would be over in one turn, but my ships only did 14 points of damage on the Sentry, and wasted 27 points taking out the infrastructure of a defenseless planet.
I realize it is easier to code the attack algorithm to bombard until the planet is incapacitated, but this still seems odd.
If this is intended, then I would argue that the game should also require the planet to be incapacitated before troop ships are allowed to land.