What is the point of Ragnarok?

Other superweapons I can understand, I mean it's pretty simple stuff.
But Ragnarok just makes no sense to me, I mean if you're capable of building a 60k metal structure on a planet it's safe to assume that you already have a significant hold on the planet, so what's the point?

Nuke --> Destroy enemy base
Planet smash --> Destroy enemy planet
Annihilazer --> Destroy enemy planets
Ragnarok --> Destroy a planet you already have some control over???

Is there some underlining strategy to it I'm just not seeing? Am I just crazy, or is Ragnarok really useless?

Consider a large teamgame with people having tons of resources. 60k suddenly is pretty cheap: Get a small secured place on a large enemy planet, make ragnarock, laught at them

I think.

Or troll large single planet FFAs.

I'm so using it to troll competitive 1v1's. "Oh hey, I'm slowly loosing? Nope. Draw game."

This. Had so much fun doing this in a 5v5 yesterday.

I wish it had a "detonate now" button. That would lead to some interesting messages in ALL chat.

Build Ragnarok.

Press Button.

"Warning. One Minute to Planetary Annihilation"

Boom!

....

Profit?

Played six games yesterday with some team burning members. Four of them ended with a ragnarok

Totally fits the pa atmosphere. If I can't have it no one can if I can't win no one can kinda thing. Luv it

A lot of things sound useless or unnecessary on paper (like why have Gil-Es and Bluehawks together when all Bluehawks have better is the ability to attack orbitals) but in game situations where they are useful happen pretty frequently. If I have the advantage but also a foothold on a planet my opponents escaped to, I see no reason not to smash their little rock, giving them even less room and giving myself an even greater advantage. It is mostly for team games, but I'm sure people will get creative with it on FFAs as well. In 1v1 you can force a draw if you are losing, why not do that?

But I see some merit in the argument that 60k metal equals to other Titans and assuming the game is going equal, two Titans will probably trump a Ragnarok.

I dunno 60k metal is 2 atlas titans. That's ... you can win games with them. A lot.

Read the very end of my post. Overall it's very context dependant.

Yeah I am just pushing that argument.

Ragnarok 2 planets
Send commander into space before detonation
be known as that guy
profit

I was playing in a 3 planet match, was building halleys on my moon, the enemy used a ragnarok to destroy one of his planets, so I ended up with 2 halleys unused because I had nowhere to move my commander to in order to not draw the game. That game never finished, I had a ragnarok completed on the enemy's last remaining planet and it was in the process of counting down, but the game crashed.

To be awesome.

I just played a 10 players FFA yesterday.
The system contains only one large planet and an asteroid.
Someone built the Ragnarok, and only 3 players escaped to the asteroid in time.

I also get another idea: why not add an orbital layer to the sun?
Thus, the player can hide his commander with Astraeus on the sun.
And the Ragnarok can be a practical weapon even in the system with only one planet.

Ragnarök is a series of future events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water. Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors. Ragnarök is an important event in the Norse canon, and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory.

How about when two commanders both escape to the sun with no planet left?

It's a good way to suicide when you don't want to keep playing.

I use it all the time lmao

If one side still has some orbital fighters, he wins.

Or just allow the commander below the Astraeus to fire as a gunship.
But the problem is that the enemy may keep moving to avoid fire.
It is very high chance to make it a draw.

The real question is how the original PA was released without a ragnorok.

The Ragnarok definitely has it use. There's times in team matches where it's been used to destroy resource rich planets just to stop the enemy claiming them, or take out a metal planet that's about to fire. There's no issue getting a foothold if you have 20+ unit cannons it turns out .

There was even one time when an enemy evacuated a main planet that was about hit by an asteroid and landed their forces on the moon I was controlling. Rather than fight off 10+ Helios' and however many Omegas, I evacuated my commander to a second base and Ragnarok'ed the moon to win the match. Both the planet and moon explosion occurred with seconds of each other