It'd be nice to populate your planets with NPCs and watch as penguins thrive upon your well-loved planets; but what if you'd rather be a complete asshat, like Galactus, who sucked the planets dry/blew it up and moved onto the next one without a second thought? Boom, instant awesomeness... Of course, since you're smaller than the planets, it can't be done that way. But Starbound seems to be a game of technology; so what if there was some sort of technology that let you ravage a planet of every resource/energy, then sent it spiraling into oblivion? I know, right? Cool. Of course, Haunt lacks imagination. He's going to need to enlist your help of designing such a device or giving your opinion upon this idea. Now go and make it happen.
Yeah, become a destroyer of the stars! A ravager of galaxies! The doom of all life! Now, what would this device be?
This device will be composed of three items: a stick, a rope, and a ship filled with dynamite. The dynamite will be enough to blast through to the center of the planet, and break it to pieces. Now you might be wondering why I tied a stick to your ship.... Bye!
it would be an awesome way to get your revenge on a pesky planet that you kept dying in, but it would be nice if you got some sort of benefit from it. like harvesting energy for you space station. but for now ill be happy with the orbital cannon to get my revenge
Exactly. I was going to include something about harvesting energy, but...er... I wrote this at 2am, don't blame me
While I agree that harvesting energy is a must for destroying planets, I would say that you get significantly less energy from blowing up a planet as opposed to mining it; also, you would instantly loose any and all falmmable materials on that planet. That way, you can't hoard a bunch of hard-to-get resources from just blowign stuff up.
If blowing up a planet is to yield any rewards, this device has to be veeery expensive, or else it would be kind of OP. How about some kind of gravity beacon that summons a meteor that crashes into the planet? Or some sort of giant tank-drill think that drills to the planet's core and blows it up?
What you are wanting is a miniature deathstar superlaser. something like that would cost the resources of a planet. but it would be worth the cost just to see your ship rocket backwards from firing the thing. Also another approach is a nanite bomb. set it and get offworld before it goes off. after a minute the ore of the world s yours for the taking.
Why not use a special bomb that creates a temporary white hole. It would cause the planet to blow apart, but without destroying anything rare. The white hole the bomb creates would push away everything by the anti-gravity fields it creates and destroy the planet in just seconds. The white hole bomb however would be extremly expensive and rare to find so as to prevent it from being OP.
In Terraria my favorite way to suck worlds dry of resources is to make one small world, and then promptly take over it. And I mean complete take over. I spend everything in that world to make the frame of a giant storage facility. I make sure it is highly organized. Rooms for copper, iron, etc. I begin to fill it with chests. I reserve one layer at the very top as a tree farm, for construction purposes. When I finish the frame and have every room filled with barrels/chests... it begins. I create a large world and invade it. I begin digging with my best gear. I just start digging, gathering everything- Dirt, Stone, all of it. When my inventory fills, I leave any left-overs in a container near the spawn of this world, and then leave back to my storage facility... and I drop off my load. I continue to do this... and every time I completely annihilate a world, leaving a dried out husk, void of water, lava, or land except for the very bottom of the world. In honor of my victory over this world, I replace one piece of my storage facility with a brick of gold. I quickly move my storage facility to this map, and expand it to fit. Then I move on to the next map... am I the only one to do this? It's pretty fun.
What about the poor randomly-generated alien families. And their poor-randomly generated alien babies. And the randomly-generated alien restaurants. I love randomly-generated alien food. Who will I give my randomly-generated tip to? An invisible, nonexistent, randomly-generated waiter? I say there also be a feature that lets the aliens protest their inevitable demise. All the randomly-generated higher up aliens would gather and vote on whether they want their planet to be destroyed. And when they vote no they chop off Haun-I mean -Insert Player Name-'s head and mount it on a wall like a deer.
