It seems if your commander is on the planet doing the game-ending smash... you lose. If your commander is on the planet being smashed, the planet you are using to smash is yours, and that smash also happens to end the game... you win? I just lost a long match to this, pretty salty right now... In both situations your commander dies, so what determines the outcome? I smashed the planet and wiped everybody else out, but I lose?
When a moon smashes a planet, everything on the planet isn't killed instantly. If you watch closely, the explosion travels outward and around the planet. So if you smash the Commander directly, I believe the results are a draw. At least that's how it used to be. But if the Commander is on the far side of the planet, he's alive for a second or two longer than the commander on the planet. A trick is to put the Commander in an Astraeus and launch it inbetween planets while the moon is in route to being smashed. So then the Commander moving between planets when the moon smashes the planet.
You can't do that now. It won't let you travel to a moving planet. If you make it to orbit you should be fine though.
They have changed it(if it was ever possible). Everything dies in the proximity of that planet being smashed/thrown. Orbital, air, land. No matter what, you have to fully evacuate the planet to take no losses. And never smash a planet into another planet, if on one of them is your commander and you have no possible way, to send him into orbit. Except of course, the enemy is about to destroy your commander.
I've seen bugs like that from time to time. Advanced factories will survive sometimes as well. Currently, they aren't supposed to though.
Yeah. Right now, nothing should survive a planet smash. Not even units in orbit. When proportional planet smashing is added, that'll be different.
