NANOMACHINES SON Nanobot diffuser: exclusive to DA machine empires. same than nuclear weapon in real life, to not let. Reply yanhamu. Thanks for the correction. Available to non-Pacifists. The US has a long history with genocide; Nazi Germany got most of its ideas from how the US treated blacks and natives. With world cracker it literally deletes the planet . Colossus (World Cracker)-Hazbuzan Syndicate. Well, now you can! This removes many of the restrictions on what planet killer weapons can target. This weapon destroys material and biological life on the planet, but it does not blow it apart. Wipes out all sentient life, but leaves their structures intact. (I skipped Enforcers and Diffusers for obvious reasons. No problem, thinks I, I'll build one and follow others' advice. Broken Union Reference to the Trill. What is faster? Cleaning a ball with any tools, or breaking a ball with any tools? Neutron sweep: turn planet into lifeless world with universal, but 50% base habitability. I also tried to use the divine enforcer but the game wouldn't allow me to. Kills all hivemind and machine pops. If you have a lot of enemy planets to take over and all of them are heavily fortified with a lot of defense armies, just using the neutron sweep is a good strat if you don’t care about others opinions. Content is available under Attribution-ShareAlike 3. Similar to a neutron sweep, but it sprays radioactive dust into the atmosphere, turning it into a tomb world. If said planet is a fortress world with 10k defense armies, I'll roll up with my 30k Invasion armies. their fleet was destroyed, their entire empire was ruined, they when from equivalent to Pathetic, i even neutron. ago. Neutron sweep: 5/10. They all showed up when I was in the ship designer though. I Had used the neutron sweep to quickly clear big inhabited planets (including defensive forces) for recolonization. The two uses of a colossus weapon are the colossus CB and increase enemy WE faster from planetary destruction. Neutron Sweeper is. Built for 3. With a Neutron Sweep you can conquer the planet without the land. When the One is All and the All is One, there can not be the concept of harm against the Own/Nest/Self. J. If you stop cracking worlds for a while, the sanctions will go away. ago. World cracker takes too long?. Fallen empires are vestigial remnants of millennia old, extremely powerful empires that have become stagnant and decadent over the ages. For example if you play organic empire, then you can't neutron sweep a hive-world, or a machine world. Reply reply Raestloz • I sometimes use World Cracker just for that evil laugh moment, but honestly aside from Neutron Sweeper which saves time, I can't see any use out of the other colossi Shielding is just cracking with no mineral afterwards. Originally posted by Emperor Palpatinate: That's because Merchants give about 15 trade value without bonuses, and provide some amenities, meaning you don't need to spend on entertainers. If you could scoop a spoonful's worth of material from the surface of a neutron. Nanobot diffuset is the best one. Permanently bars the planet from interacting with the galaxy, but nobody has to die. This page was last edited on 7 April 2018, at 14:35. Not enough, world cracker needed. Warning! Blowing up yourself will kill you. Maybe I should reconsider always getting the world cracker *wheeze* there is one Planet-Destroyer that is supreme, and that is the Neutron Sweep. . This bad boy can purge so many xeno scum. The world cracker is fine because even though you kill the whole planet, no one desecrates the corpses by living on them. Neutron Sweep is next for me as it let's me settle the planet myself. 23 Badges. I don't pvp. Neutronium also has the advantage that it heals slightly faster with regenerating hull, and there. Neutron sweeps have an actual use if you are fighting a gesalt. 7; Reactions:. I just don't want them to have a science Nexus to compete with mine. 14. #10. Any empire that established communications with a Galactic Community member is able to join or leave. World. Nanobot diffuset is the best one. So those are some scenarios where the world cracker + global pacifier would work better than the neutron sweep. I mean a world cracker is faster but still. Never really had a use for the Global Pacifier. Neutron sweep kills everyone on the planet and allows you to swoop in and colonize it. Can i change the weapon system installed on Colossus?I am playing a Driven Assimilator empire and when I researched the colossus at about 50% through I was given an inital choice of 4 possible weapons (nanobots, neutron sweep, world cracker and global pacifier). Appropriate, given the series' ringworlds are designed to unleash a Neutron Sweep-esque pulse to wipe out possible hosts for the Flood. and i actually did, and was still at -180. Neutron Sweep: Kills all pops, planet remains intact. PLZDJoe. The other options such as world cracker and global pacifier are unaffected. And more pops = more power in the latest meta game XD. 13. Can i change the weapon system installed on Colossus?Specifically Gigastructural Engineering. The machine world never broke apart and it still gave me a +10 society yield. #6. It will often auto-populate my ships with only red lasers and other severely outdated tech. It does everything you want a colossus to do. Yes that's the point: after a neutron sweep you can't just land troops or resettle or whatever, the planet is marked as coloniseable. Lol UNE was between the successor khanate, three Fallen Empires and a couple dozen star systems away from an LGate. Additional comment actions. ; About Stellaris Wiki; Mobile view Neutron Sweep. Since the Habitat was mine now, I retrofitted the Neutron Sweep into a World Cracker and destroyed the hunk of junk -- putting me in breach of galactic law. i can only use neutron sweep, planet cracker and the troll shield, so my ethic and ascension perk dont. Spiritualists and Caretakers use a Neutron Sweep, and Xenophobes use a Planet Cracker. The Galactic Community is a governing body where each member empire can vote on laws that affect all other member empires. Last and least: Divine Enforcer. 3. Planet cracker: much faster shooting. I think the cracker and the pacifier work and even have special event messages. But javorian pox/neutron sweep would keep it in tact. Planet cracker is always useless or sub-optimal. Keep the planet and buildings intact while removing the vermin. Even a worst-case scenario in a shielded world has a decent chance at the species surviving, which is more than can be said for world crackers or neutron sweeps (even if those might be quicker and less painful). For speed speed we'll go with 99% sublight for thrusters per Stellaris novel (This cuts down significantly in the presence of high gravitational waves such as Black Holes and Neutron stars as stated in the tooltip) and 160ish light year per day for tier III drives. ) are also bound by ethos and not available to anyone only follows the rules we already have established. Showing 1 - 7 of 7 comments. Is there any tactical point to cracking a world, rendering it uninhabitable instead of just clearing all the pops off of it with a neutron sweep besides the minor mineral deposit left behind and potential roleplaying?Neutron Sweep: Opps, vaporized our food. Reply . No Fantasy verses must be Sci-Fi in origin. I tried different options - auto builder on off, tried to find colossus weapon tech id to. It's basically the same as with certain options like Armageddon Bombardment, Purging or - with 2. ago. Content is available under Attribution-ShareAlike 3. Like our existence, they just got extremely lucky. Shielding does 20 negative points I think. 5 growth instead of the 4. Your army implodes, the invading army kicks you in the dick. You should be able to change it like how you can change orbital bombardment stance. Latter creates society research which can be used for research habitat. The basic positions are kind of. I chose nanobots, because assimilator, then after it was completed I was able to immediately select neutron sweep and global pacificer in. There is a coolness aspect to the world cracker, no doubt, but i feel like destroying worlds is self inflicting wounds for hives. Oct 5, 2023; Add bookmark #105 I want to second the idea that if the number of total number of council positions isn't changing then the council needs a rework. Fun if you want a colonisable planet or want to kill them, but all buildings will be destroyed. I think planet crackers are a tough thing to get right, but one idea that popped into my head: ultimatums. It destroy's robots and brainwashes people. Calvax General. 5. ) What are your go-to names? UNE World-Crackers: Famous geologists. One of them being *checks list of sci-fi tropes* um, galactic superweapons, which an upcoming expansion is sorting. ChornoyeSontse Determined Exterminator • 1 yr. I want to use the world cracker,but when I replace it in the ship designer, it just goes back to the. Action based breaches (blowing up planets, terraforming things, etc. Kennison Mar. Settling on a holy world does not awaken the FE. If an empire is going to use a world cracker they would probaby be just as willing to nuke it from orbit. And i do not mean that in the "you can t conquer all their empire", because re-started a game after knowing that. Yea I tested my world cracker out on a barren world, really curious on wether or not I can use it. Obviously you can use planet cracker on uninhabited worlds too, but neutron sweep's only purpose is immediate genocide, like it's the same thing as the old "purify" wargoal. The Global Pacifier is a Colossus weapon that, when activated, transforms a planet into some kind of Shielded World. Eventually there won't be enough votes to prevent you from repealing Reverence for Life. "I am emperor of a galaxy-spanning empire of hundreds of worlds. Colossus World Cracker Research. If you want to bombard a planet into oblivion you need the "armageddon" orbital bombardment option, this is available to fanatical purifiers or the crisis, it wipes out all pops and turns it into a tomb world, alternatively if you want the planet you could get a collosus with a neutron sweep, if you don't want the planet, then get a planet cracker. Toxic god = Dewa Racun. Jump to latest Follow Reply. *sips space rum made on a planet with 123 species and 0% crime with one enforcer's office*. . World Cracker: Destroys the planet, leaving a mineral deposit. However you can't use on planets that are not habitable to you. Pacifier:Makes no sense for a Xenophobic Aquatic FE to use the World Cracker, or for the Spiritualists to use the Neutron Sweep. Neutron Sweep: Kills all pops on the planet and gives -30% Habitability for 10 years. I mostly just wanted to post something to say hello. Feb 9, 2023; Add. I've been doing a lot of that "blowing stars up" thing, too. All of the information about colossus and global pacifiers is stated above. Destroying a perfectly good planet with something like the Planet Cracker is a waste of resources. tech_mine_dark_matter. Since the Habitat was mine now, I retrofitted the Neutron Sweep into a World Cracker and destroyed the hunk of junk -- putting me in breach of galactic law. (There are other Colossus weapons, but they have different outcomes). It would be make having a planet cracker/ neutron sweep colossus absolutely mandatory before getting involved in any ear that's over more than a few inhabited systems. With a Neutron Sweep you can conquer the planet without the land. Global. I know hardcore PVP players probably hate them and find them useless. ChornoyeSontse Determined Exterminator • 1 yr. Other than Machine Empires, where it's basically a Neutron Sweeper (which IIRC does not work on robots) IMO it's more about maintaining empire cohesion: blast a planet with it and they will all become spiritualist, which will move them all into the Spiritualist faction which (hopefully) will be a lot happier than whatever faction they were a part of. I prefer the Neutron Sweep myself, but only if the Planet is a decent size. The planet gets −30% Habitability for 10 years. Neutron sweep kills robot pops, but the contingency worlds are not marked as habitated. Whenever I use the world cracker or shield generator it’s only for RP reasons, other than that I prefer to use the neutron sweep, that way i have a brand new world to recolonise, I used the world cracker on the only enemy who managed to bypass my defences and actually fly his fleet into. ccol168 • Additional comment actions. It goes as thus: This type of machine…Last time I checked, only 8% of PC users were using linux-based platforms, and we don't know if OP is one of them. Reply . That's why you use a neutron sweep. Can I kill two birds with one stone? Or is the shield varient only for Pacifists? Or perhaps shielding a planet prevents the 'kill everything' achievements?. Stellaris, a very good space strategy game, was missing a few things at launch. I haven't noticed the grace period, hence me posting the question. Best collossus weapon in Nanobot Diffuser. If your fleet has no valid path home, pressing the "return to base" button will make it go MIA while it returns to hits homebase. I've. So the use of the World Cracker for pure Mining. Report. So why would you ever use a world cracker? Cracking a habitable planet for a measly 4-16 minerals just isn't worth it when compared to neutron sweeping. Holy hell is it good. The game automatically armed it with a neuron sweep and no matter what I'd I can't use any other component. FogeltheVogel Hive Mind. As such, I had no idea that cracking my second one NOT affected by prethorians would make everyone consider me as the worst war criminal in galactic history lul. I feel awful. After that I declared a total war and moved my colossus (Which is really slow) over to their colony only to find out that I could not shoot the planet for some reason, the. Charge a planet cracker against an enemy planet but hold fire, make demands of enemies, fire the cracker if they refuse. Loaded guns. Nanobot Diffuser = Penyebar Nanobot. It’s useful from a RP perspective, but gameplay and strategy wise it’s very situational. Not only do all of these not help with the consumption of other races, they actually hinder it. In Stellaris, the Colossus is a class of weapon which wipes out all life on a single planet. Ooh, nice. Do you honestly think this one planet means anything to me? All you have accomplished is inconveniencing me, and therefore, I shall simply render your beloved world unto glass. Is there any tactical point to cracking a world, rendering it uninhabitable instead of just clearing all the pops off of it with a neutron sweep besides the minor mineral deposit left behind and potential roleplaying? เข้าสู่ระบบ ร้านค้า. Yes, world crackers and neutron sweepers are scary and kill all life on a planet, but they're used as weapons of last resort, and present an opportunity cost for the empire, in that the resources. I don't agree, Machine worlds can be colonized by Synths/Droids (Maybe Synthethic ascended. What sort of mechanics could be built around that? As Paradox explained in a recent dev blog, there are five World Devestator weapons: a World Cracker that'll smash a planet so the debris can be mined; a Global Pacifier putting a planet in a bubble so you can study it with a research station; a Neutron Sweep wiping out life but leaving infrastructure; a God Ray making everyone spiritualist and. Ok so id try to use my neutron sweep to kill it, but nope you cant do that. I drenched a Prethoryn infested planet with the Aquatic Colossus before attempting to bombard it to 100% devastation. After the start I crank out clone armies as cannon fodder. I cant find it anywhere. cracker, neutron sweep, pacifier etc. Jan 27, 2018. Our scientists decided it was best to create the doomsday weapon of mass destruction, the World Cracker (*clicks* Projector Screen - Shows a short video demonstration of the world cracker. I just find it funny when people complain about orbital bombardment damage. After all, if I remember correctly, the only W-Modules you can use on the Contingency's AI worlds, another version of a Machine World, are the Global Pacifier and World Cracker modules. 11. Global Pacifier has reduced diplo penalties, Neutron Sweep opens the planet up for habitation, Nanobot Diffuser instantly assimilates the inhabitants, Divine Enforcer converts pops to spiritualist. Divine enforcer is. Search this site. So I blew up their home system. Reply. I just tried out both the world cracker and the neutron sweep on some non-synthetically ascended xeno scum, and I noticed something odd. 4. ), I could either just take and keep their worlds, or I could use it in a war of subjugation and leave them only one planet left, meaning I get to leave them as independent. Scyldari Logic: “I’m pacifist until someone turns out to have opposing ethics to mine or to be a clanker-loving atheist, in which case I’ll spread my progressive religion of peace by force- totally in self-defense. I like to build all my megastructures there so they're easily defended from the Crisis. However, for current times, I would point to the treatment of people being held in the concentration camps at the border, where people have been sterilized and children have been stolen from their parents and given away to new. Arcvalons Field Marshal. Now, I have Colossus ready, but it has no weapon. Dark Matter Drawing. Step 5: Crack every world. But the planet cracker makes everything up with its orgastic animation. Content is available under Attribution-ShareAlike 3. World Cracker is terrible for the economy! Global Pacifier: Effectively identical to World Cracker except the snowflakes in the Galactic Community won't cancel you for genocide. “Destroy the xenos, spare the planet for repopulation with alpha species. Every non-xenophile empire can use a Displacement purge, where pops will be resettled to other empires. " I was able to send my world cracker over and obliterate the planet. It can do this either by destroying the planet–the World Cracker–or destroying all biological life – the Neutron Sweep. It's true, just ask Anakin. Average World Cracker fan vs Average Neutron Sweep enjoyer. use the world cracker Reply Gooneybirdable. Neutronium also has the advantage that it heals slightly faster with regenerating hull, and there are some edicts that benefit armor, but not hull. Buy yours from your nearest Branch Office today!” -Vanoan Pacification Services advert. In that case, a fantastic and straightforward alternative is the Neutron Sweep, which eliminates all pops on the planet in one fell swoop. I was asking it to myself. I am playing a Driven Assimilator empire and when I researched the colossus at about 50% through I was given an inital choice of 4 possible weapons (nanobots, neutron sweep, world cracker and global pacifier). You could even put the planet destroyers to some use. If used on a Holy World, the Holy Guardians will awaken and declare a war on the perpetrator; If Earth is shattered, there is a 50% chance of creating a wormhole with another system; Can be test fired on uninhabited planets; Neutron Sweep All Pops on the planet are killed. Yeh it's just a way of avoiding becoming a genocidal pariah to the rest of the empires. I love the game, play it heavily modded. I am playing a Driven Assimilator empire and when I researched the colossus at about 50% through I was given an inital choice of 4 possible weapons (nanobots, neutron sweep, world cracker and global pacifier). I deleted my World Cracker and am now replacing it with a Global Pacifier, depending on how much research it gives you I'll probably replace that with a Neutron Sweep which just kills all the pops on the planet but leaves the planet intact. I've always used world crackers because they're more fun. World Cracker: Shatters a planet, leaving behind a broken debris field that can be mined for resources. Buy yours from your nearest Branch Office today!” -Vanoan Pacification Services advert. I always use the neutron sweep unless I really need the world cracker for dealing with the Contingency or some, but I usually send out a massive extermination party into the galaxy in late game just to deal with some lag. Once I was able to build one, there was nothing. 1. Of the remaining 4 Neutron Sweep is the most useful, but the other 3 are roughly on par IMO. So those are some scenarios where the world cracker + global pacifier would work better than the neutron sweep. Skip to main content. But javorian pox would be way faster. Diplomatically, similar story with Neutron Sweepers, but ALL spiritualists really hate that stuff. I prefer using divine enforcer or neutron sweep… though I’m not sure if DE is effective on organic hive-minds let alone prethoryn scourge. It might sound strange to actually want to live on a radioactive hellhole, but. Impending doom swept are empire as we knew The Atha would surely attack. You get all the xenos stuff but you know, without the xeno in the way. I thought i'd just say a few brief things about the planet destroyers since I find them fun to use. Fine ill make a special machine army to capture the machine wrold BUT I CANT DO THAT EITHER THEN HOW THE FUCK DO I TAKE IT ReplyCan i change the weapon system installed on Colossus?2. A world cracker totally destroys a planet, leaving behind a cracked world you can build a mineral station around for I believe 6-8 minerals a month. ccol168 • Additional comment actions. Neutron Sweep is tech_pk_neutron, in "00_apocalypse_tech. Different W weapons for different jobs. If it's too early for. I'd rather see a system like in CKII where your general's traits influence what combat tactics they pick. Reply Auctoritate • Additional comment actions. It may be due to your. This rendered the planets unkillable and unable to be invaded. . 7 the Hyperlane Registrar helps you to build a well protected sector trade hub sooner without advanced base tech. World cracker: everyone except pacifists. Neutron sweeper en route. I chose nanobots, because assimilator, then after it was completed I was able to immediately select neutron sweep and global pacificer in. I know hardcore PVP players probably hate them and find them useless. Sometimes, 'being the good guy' means reminding another empire of the folly of going to war. but lag is the bigger issue, so I wanted to use neutron sweep to clear up some some pops. I've opened Colossus project tradiotion, but colossus technology didn't show up (only repeatables again and again). It's a shame that Neutron Sweep can't be used on your own worlds in Authoritarian empires. *Slaps the side of the world cracker. I would love to co op vs AI but i doubt it can be done with all my mods. Neutron Sweep: Destroys most higher forms of life on the planet but leaves the infrastructure intact for colonization. Once the Neutron Sweep is finished all that remains of the planet is a barren rock with no life at all left on it. 6 Gun batteries and the modules that slow down enemy fleets, increase the star bases weapons range, reduce enemy shields. Pretty sure I had to do that for the other weapon options after the first one I picked anyway (world cracker). 0 unless otherwise noted. Borging a planet with the DA colossus not only bypasses huge and powerful Militant or Spiritual FE armies like the Neutron Sweep, it instantly pacifies the planet, making everyone unaffected by happiness, uncaring of being assimilated, and fully productive immediately. ago. It significantly limits how much the planet will grow when near cap. 4-16 minirals and no worry about the world. And it can always be swapped out for the World Cracker if the need arises. Several flavors of planet killers are present: World Crackers, Neutron Sweep, Divine Enforcer, and Nanobot diffuser. Imagine an espionage mission that allowed you to crash orbital rings or habitats into planets. Originally posted by Emperor Palpatinate: That's because Merchants give about 15 trade value without bonuses, and provide some amenities, meaning you don't need to spend on entertainers. -7/10 against spiritualists - are you on their side or something?. Reply . [deleted] • 9 mo. Planet Cracker - War type. Right so I'm playing as an empire that will become giant space dicks during war time and I always try to do something to the home planet,someone declared on my federation, so off I went and managed to push through to their home system, while they. Convert the pop, preserve the infrastructure, get the planet, and make coffee. This makes it the perfect symbol of fear for an authoritarian-spiritualist empire. However, I'm using a neutron sweep this time and was wondering if buildings on a swept planets remain after recolonization of the world. Fallen empire pops usually are very good anyway. While I do think it should retain its. If it's too early for. A neutron sweep kills the population but leaves the world itself standing, so you can colonize it after you sweep all the bones off the porch. World Cracker. txt" under Stellariscommon echnologies. Might be faster than trying to bomb through a fortress world, especially if you have not many lanes to go. Also instant terraforming to your ocean preference. I guess for the same reason god ray and nanobot might not work either. The nanite swarm requires you to be assimilators. 3] [9d15] The Neutron Sweep Colossus weapon is very temperamental Game Version Cepheus [3. A look at the total number of 147 breaks ever scored in snooker history, who made them and videos of the. Is the Colossus useless? Galaxy yellow explorer. I just finished researching World Cracker, so I can give it that, but where is my sweeper?Pacifier: everyone. Planet cracker is meant to be a brute force destroy. The Neutron Sweep can not be researched or used by Pacifist and Spiritualist empires. I mean a world cracker is faster but still. . Neutron sweep simply gives you a habitable world and world cracker just removes a world and pops, same with pacifier. Global Pacifier puts a permanent shield around a planet, functionally the same as cracking it but people hate you less. Reply. Mar 4, 2021 2. inconformista: In 2. Leaving the Galactic Community costs between 100 and 500 influence, depending on. With a sizable section of your empire living on a neighboring world, your research alternatives and choices for leaders are reduced. As per dev diary, at least. World Cracker is nice for good vibes, Neutron Sweep helps you snowball eco. Since both the Neutron Sweeper and World Cracker weapons eliminate all life forms on a planet, and the law is "Reverence for Life", does the Neutron Sweeper count as banned? The author of this topic has marked. 0 - Raiding. Previous Post. Hive minds arent psionic or robotic. You may not have them all unlocked yet, but by default there's the devolving beam, neutron sweep, and world cracker available to research. Redirect page. However you can't use on planets that are not habitable to you. For speed speed we'll go with 99% sublight for thrusters per Stellaris novel (This cuts down significantly in the presence of high gravitational waves such as Black Holes and Neutron stars as stated in the tooltip) and 160ish light year per day for tier III drives. An entire world, and all of its billions of souls gone, reduced to atoms. Then again, they probably qualify for FPs too, so maybe there's a special. Neutron Sweeper. He would then have to get a science officer lvl 5 and a special project to unshield it, which requires a lot of time. 6. kwheeler First Lieutenant. That certain weapons with differing effects (Neutron Sweep etc. It'd odd that you separate world cracker from global pacifier; I would say that they're effectively the same thing, just changing what resource the destroyed world. Several flavors of planet killers are present: World Crackers, Neutron Sweep, Divine Enforcer, and Nanobot diffuser. It seems that even when the universe is united against a Fanatical Purifier, you get about 2 shots with the Colossus (World Cracker) before friendly relationships start to really deteriorate. Yes, the neutron sweep. I detest orbital bombardments. Reply petecalfrone Fanatic Xenophobe •. Global Pacifier: Makes the world not useable + The world will gain a deposit of 10 Society Research. Only spiritualists get the god ray, but also don't get the sweep. divine enforcer- never seen it nor used it but seems highly specialized for a spiritual playstyle. Report. . Citadel with L (Neutron Launchers)/L (Kinetic Artillery)platforms. Steam overlay does present occasional problems for some games, too, mind you, but those are. Also, complaining about the neutron sweep not being scientifically accurate is silly. It’s just more “humane” in in-game terms. Neutron sweep is using intense radiation to kill all life off. Jump to latest Follow Reply. (rule #5 post, i think. I think mostly because the process of flooding a planet in water is simple enough that most players can call out the problems with it, while with something like a neutron sweep. Easily enough there should be a super weapon that does exactly this. 0 game however i cannot attack the my enemy. I'm planning to start an achievement game, tiny map, spawning only a fanatic purifier to get the achievement for shielding their world. This instantly kills all organic life (and mechanical "life") on the planet. ReplySo, theres a few things I'm curious about. The celestial body is irreversibly destroyed. 4. purification, I try to pawn it off on a vassal or something. A world cracker is a horrific display of violence that is a crime against all life in the galaxy. I don't invade planets anymore, I just sweep them. There are 5 colossi types of which one is exclusive to Drive Assimilators and stupidly overpowered. I thought i'd just say a few brief things about the planet destroyers since I find them fun to use. 5k defense army. “Destroy the xenos, spare the planet for repopulation with alpha species. World Cracker: Why use it over the pacifier if the pacifier gives you the same outcome + society + less rep penalty - minerals? That late I rarely have a mineral issue. You turned your federation against me for 200 years. Jan 23, 2017 2. And neutron sweep is even discripted as enviromental friendly at some point. The world cracker is fine because even though you kill the whole planet, no one desecrates the corpses by living on them. Remove any Armor and put as many Shields on your ships as you can - the Contingency only uses energy weapons, so Shields are your best defense. 28 Badges. Use Neutron Sweep. Mar 25, 2020 2. Drink up, bish Deluge: anyone with Hydrocentric. Basically a reverse Neutron Sweep but less than a World Cracker. Available to non-Spiritualist, non-Pacifist empires. Average World Cracker fan vs Average Neutron Sweep enjoyer. Actually came here to say I wasn’t able to use neuron sweep or global pacifier on a machine world because it wasn’t a “habitable planet or megastructure”. Toggle signature. Phew, one less planet to deal with the scourge festering. The Prethoryn Scourge is an end-game crisis enemy whose technology is 100% biological. I am playing a Driven Assimilator empire and when I researched the colossus at about 50% through I was given an inital choice of 4 possible weapons (nanobots, neutron sweep, world cracker and global pacifier). By Chris Hammer. I haven't noticed the grace period, hence me posting the question. Step 4: Declare war on the former vassal. Now I can build colossus, but it doesn't have a weapon. Trying to impose democracy or communism upon authoritarian heathens wouldn't be any fun anymore no untill late game when the game crashes anyway. You watch in horror as your bonuses kick in, your garrison's strength starts rising, higher and higher, and then just as quickly overflows the integer, becoming unimaginably negative. Global Pacifier and World Cracker both make the target lose a planet instantly, but then you don't get the planet. If an empire is going to use a world cracker they would probaby be just as willing to nuke it from orbit. I also need the 'kill all organics' one for Exterminators. Played this game quite a bit, and I keep coming back to the conclusion that planet killers are mechanically only useful for total war cb; it’s always better to conquer, because Pops.