So I was playing an FFA game earlier today and all was well. I managed to be orbital in 20 and I got off to the unknown reaches of the system to expand and defend as I saw fit. Well, it got to a point where there was just myself and another player, and we were on the two main planets. the planet I was on had a movable moon(The indicators told me I only needed 3 Halies) So I built 5 to be on the save side, and the big red "Annihilate" button appeared. Great, I can just smash this into his planet and be done with it, I knew his commander was there. so I hit the button, told it to smash and hit the "Engage" button..... and nothing happened. I sat there for over half an hour, waiting for this moon to fly out of orbit with my planet, slingshot around the sun a couple times, and smash head long into his tropical beach-y paradise, but it simply never happened. Is there something I'm missing, or was it just a fluke? P.S. I used the in-game gridding system to measure the distance and it never moved at all
No, if the annihilate button appeared and you engaged it then it should of worked. There's no chance the enemy could have destroyed one of your engines or built one of their own on the moon?
Nope. I had advanced satalite imaging on the moon that was to be smashed, only thing he sent were satellites to see what was going on.
My understanding is that you can only smash a moon/asteroid into a planet if the moon/asteroid is orbiting said target planet, or that both bodies are orbiting the sun. I could be wrong here, but I did try to smash a moon into another moon and it wouldn't let me (they were both moons of the same planet).
That seems to me like a bug,or maybe it could be that the radius of the target planet was ether less or equal to the radius of the moon!
You can definitely smash moons of one planet into a completely different planet. Sometimes the engage button doesn't work and you need to try it a few times. I think the main reason you just orbited the sun over and over is because you put two extra. I've noticed that the more you put on the less likely it is to function properly.
