Idea: Let us throw planets into the Sun!

Hello forum!

So my idea is simple: let us throw planets into the sun as a last desperate effort to cause a stalemate!
I would love it!
Discussion on!

Regards,
KopiG

Been discussed before. General community response is that it sounds cool but wouldn't be overly useful.

Some developers seem to enjoy the idea though so for all we know, it might happen!

My personal take on the subject is that it sounds pretty awesome and I even think it could have its uses, although they'd be insanely situational.

It's been discussed a lot.

The consensus is that it would be cool, but not overly practical for normal gameplay.

Hence, it's a low priority.

this is funny.

UBER listening to it's community would be a joke if in 1.0 PA you couldn't do that at all.

it's literally suggested once a week!

Uh-huh. I've still yet to have anyone provide a convincing argument for why this mechanic would be good for gameplay.

Mike

From a gameplay perspective, this is not ideal. Stalemates generally mean a bad game. I think most players want decisive victories, even if they're close. Is that a bad assumption on my part?

I love the idea of slamming a planet into a sun, but personally, wouldn't want to do it until it could have interesting gameplay implications (slam into the sun, trigger a large plasma explosion that in turn damages/incinerates everything in its path). Simply slamming a planet into the sun with no further effect just feels kind of boring to me, and like it doesn't accomplish anything, other than remove an asteroid from play. But of course, the expansion on the idea I think makes it more compelling is also a LOT more work.

I don't really care. I'm not personally advocating this.

My point is simply that if it's demanded by 80% of the community then it should be in the game.

that's a good one.

how about, opponent owns whole planet and is comming to take you out but you've used your time to build Halleys rather than an army.

You flee with Astraeus and wave opponent A and his massive army bye-bye.

FUN

Where are you getting 80% from?

Mike

from it being suggested by a completely new person once a week on average sometimes even more often than that by a completely new person since alpha.

that's a lot of people for the time passed. definitely more than the sum of the PA forum community's regulars.

Perhaps flinging a planet through the sun could be an option, once variable impact damage comes around. You would build extra halleys on a planet, then you could send it through the sun, turning the planet into a fiery deathball, and make it do double the damage on impact or something. IDK. Just a thought.

dude...

sarcasm tag much?? nobody can tell here.

That...
That sounds SO F*CKING RADICAL.

Nope. No sarcasm.

So you mean at least 35,000 different people have suggested it?

Mike

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less actually, but I'm glad you realize now I wasn't too far off.

Uh huh.

Mike

who cares? its cool