New Super Weapon Idea

Hello ,
I just wanted to say that I've got an Idea for a new super weapon
Idea:
-You can dig a tunnel to the planet's core with tunnel parts wich can only be build by advanced fabrication bots/vehicles etc...
-Number of Tunnel pieces pending on the Planets size
-If the tunnel is deep enough, a advanced fabrication unit can go down there, to place a Anti-Matter Bomb, wich will explode if the player wants to, with a new button on the left side or smth. like that
-The Anti-Matter bomb will blow up the complete planet
I know that the planet smashing tactic is almost as effective as that but I think it would look really nice and it would be a great addition
Also I hope the developers will see this and may my Idea will be added
And sorry for my english I'm from germany .

you know that beyond a couple miles deep there's only lava right?

We've had a few interesting *drill to the core and blow it up* ideas before, and though it sounds cool, it won't work well in PA for a few reasons:

First, the gameplay mechanic of building halleys on someone else's planet is ridiculously hard. Someone could just nuke them three times in the time it takes you to build them. This would be about the same as what you are describing, except you are only destroying the planet. In other words, you would almost never be able to pull it off, unless the other guy is completely afk.

Second, WHY THE HECK would you want to blow up your own planet?? *I don't have the smash moon*
Oh. Well. No. Sorry. Smashing people is what puts the "AWESOME" into the title "PLANETARY ANNIHILATION"

So yeah.....get to the smash moon!

It would also be pretty lame for someone to do this on a single planet system. It would be like a nuke in CoD. If you get one and use it, they definitely deserved that, but it's really no fun anyway.

I believe there should be a way to narrow the playing field by eliminating maps.
I do think we should be given a method to destroy an unmovable planet being that the name of the game is planetary annihilation. Currently we can only destroy moons and asteroids.

I had a similar suggestion last week:
https://forums.uberent.com/threads/suggestion-core-destruction.58287/

Hi Cody, thanks for the contribution- I can see some interesting ideas for tunnels and so on. I'm not keen on them being used to blow the planet up however, as the game feels (to me at least) that it's getting a bit too focused on super weapons. Now tunnels that allow you to launch a 'sneak attack' and pour units into the middle of your opponents base (Command and Conquer Generals style) could be great fun although I'm not expecting anything like that in the core game. As for realism Tatsujb- PA takes quite a bit of artistic licence in that regard so it's no infeasible from that point of view imo.

Players do it all the time when their starting planet is a moon.

That's different. You are killing someone else's planet with your own. This is just a *let's blow it up* mechanic.

Would the destruction of the main planet also destroy all moons orbiting it?
Or would the moons find a new orbit?

If killing the planet kills all orbiting moons, then it would give the player on the main planet as much or more power than those on small moons. It would no longer be a different mechanic.

it is a nice idea, but now as nice as smashing planets

Oh well, it reminded me of this:

http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/messines.htm

"The effect of the mine explosions upon the German defenders was devastating. Some 10,000 men were killed during the explosion alone."

Tunnels and underground mines had been used for ages in war. But I'm afraid it won't work very well in PA.

Tunneling superweapon may not work, but borrowable units may

Reminds me of Star Trek with the red matter device to implode the planet Vulcan.

Think its a neat idea but sounds bit too difficult technically to do.

we need a death star cannon. to annihilate a planet but takes 20 min tobuild.

Already going to happen, metal planets are going to become Death Stars.
It's gonna be awesome.
Maybe.

They are thinking of allowing us to use Halley's to change a planet's orbit.
Imagine having an asteroid base with 20+ nukes ready to launch; move it into orbit of a planet and start launching at it. That would be pretty close to a death star.

I like the idea. Some kind of drilling station that build a very very expensive drill which will digg to the core and explode the planet!!! ^^ (Cuz exploding planets are cool as well)

I only think it will fail for a gameplay perspective because you will need to be defending it for ages unless you have 300 engineers and the economy for that on another planet.

Ah. Good old earth. The only planet to have ever existed

we can already do that

oh yeah, as soon as we take any other planet in the system suddenly this doesn't apply.....

actually you'll find this is a majority case. even our moon has a partially molten interior.

Really?
I didn't think that this was implemented yet. Will try tonight.