I remember seeing this originally on kickstarter, you guys are doing some great work. My new alienware 18 is in the mail and once she shows up Planetary Annihilation will be my first purchase. I've been watching youtube videos all morning, scanned a few forums and a few questions i have are probably redundant to those of you who have been onboard since alpha, i apologize. I was reading theres no space battles, just satellites and space stations in orbit....ok Is there a future plan to implement dropships at least? Some sort of invasion button similar to launching a moon? Have a manufacture facility similar to nukes, when its complete you select your force, then destination planet and a scripted animation launches the invasion?? I've only seen the one drop ship for the commander, and it seems like it would be tedious dropping 3 guys at a time off. Also is it possible to defend your planets with some kind of orbiting battery platforms? thanks
from what i hear, almost anything you can imagine about galactic war and autonomous robotic killing machines will be in this game at some point. But really this game is not about space battles, as much as I wish it went that big. The space battles would have been a massive patch, and Uber already said they will not implement that. So far the features that are a little crazy or extreme would be created by modders. This link is a somewhat older list but it might answer some of your questions.
You can use teleports to send a load of units through (think Stargate style) and there's the Anchor to defend small areas of the planet.
@bawler Welcome, fellow TA veteran! >Is there a future plan to implement dropships at least? Some sort of invasion button similar to launching a moon? >I've only seen the one drop ship for the commander, and it seems like it would be tedious dropping 3 guys at a time off. There is only the one dropship, the Astraeus, that carries a single unit at a time. However, you can send them en masse to drop an army. As damnhippie mentioned, if you're able to construct a teleporter on the surface of an enemy world, you can also send your land units through it as well. >Have a manufacture facility similar to nukes, when its complete you select your force, then destination planet and a scripted animation launches the invasion?? There is a planned structure called the unit cannon, which was shown in the KS trailer, but it will probably not be ready in time for PA's 1.0 release. Because it will need to be balanced, what final form it will take is not known. >Also is it possible to defend your planets with some kind of orbiting battery platforms? Yes, there is the Avenger orbital fighter which is mobile and the immobile Anchor defense satellite.
Thanks for the informative reply's and catching me up, I look forward to playing you all in around a week. Stargate style portal is a RAD idea, I didn't even think of that.
