Feature Request: Incidental Annihilasering

Just watched this video (timestamped link to highlight what I mean)

Any planets that get in the way of that massive laser beam? They should totally die.

if they get in the way they should block the shot ... while being destroyed ...

Agreed, same as incidental planet smashing, incidental annihilasing should occour (annihilasing, anihhilaserd...ect....Uber just loves adding odd words to the dictionary)

Thread title amended

i have a better one... annihilaseration ... BAMMM!!!

Annihilaserization?

Wow. 8 syllables.

this could lead to rage inducing misfortune, as you would have to estimate the travel time of any orbiting planets in relation to the laser charging. Nice idea though, seeing as incidental smashes are in!

We discussed this in the office quite a bit. I believe we actually had it implemented at one time (I could be wrong), but we decided that this had the potential to be a huge annoyance for players. What if you didn't see your other planet getting in the way while your annihilaser was charging up? How do we show that another planet will get hit in the process? People already get confused enough with the incidental planet collisions and that one has a clear line showing potential collisions in its path. Some people already feel that annihilaser ends the game too quickly and making it take down multiple planets would make it so much more powerful. If they were blocked instead that would probably the most preferable IMO, but it would still need to be very clearly illustrated that it might be blocked.

lol ninja'd

7 actualy ... an-ni-hi-la-se-ra-tion ... why rization?
nevermind ... + 1 for hitting the wrong planet accidently with the actual target being missed ...

Planets accidentally smashing an allied planet needs a similar UI so I don't accidentally kill myself because the planet I send to smash hits my main planet.

Maybe wait till the planet is out of the way then? You could add a notification with annihilaser waiting for planet or something.

I agree.

additionaly it would need a rechargefunction either in the form of a cool down or consuming enregy till ready ...
i understand it`s an endgameweapon and even a/the gameender ... but players should still have a bit more chance to stop it after the first shot has been made ...

I <3 you.

would it be possible to let the game detect that there is an object in the way so it would wait for the right moment to fire the laser?? I think it looks pretty ugly if you shoot through the sund or planets...

What if you target a planet that is always on the other side of the sun or another planet than you? Should it fail? Should that planet effectively be safe? That seems bad to me, but others may disagree. I still think that blocking would be preferable to this and that lasers can shoot through the sun without affecting it.

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Teeheehee, *hides*

I'm agree with that.
we are legion, we are ponys

If this realyl is a laser and we are very literral, then no: It cannot fire through the sun.
Photons have a really hard time getting out of that hot plasma ball in the first place. The ones you see being emitted now? They were produced first around 10k-170k years ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Core, 2nd last paragraph) and have been bouncing between atoms trying to get some interstellar medium.
It is really, really dense and really, really big/resistant to extra energy. Actually you are more likely to expand the sun by shooting it with that laser (because when it get's hotter it get's bigger, wich in turn lowers the fusion reaction so it grows colder...).

Similar things would happen with gas giants. You are more likely to ignite the thing into a temporary sun then blow it up.

I see one primary reason not to (and why perhaps accidental halyeing should also not happen:
Solar orbits are not nearly as neat and tidy as that abstracted 2D view of the solar system wants to make you beleive.
We think it works like this:


When it is actually like this:


Notice how every single planet says "no" about conforming to a nice, flat disk of orbits around the sun? And that is our boring old Sol we talk about, not one of the fancier systems that can't even produce life.

I still think we should keep the System Map 2d. Currently it is the closest we get to a conventional minimap. Adding a 3rd dimension will only consufes players, increase processing cost and add nothing.

I think you should go back to halleyed plaents passing other planets along the way.
Just make it look like they pass over or under it (rather then clipping through).