(01-17-2022, 12:51 AM)Yurk Embassy Wrote: - It takes away the players' tactical and political freedom. If boradcasting propaganda becomes necessary to take a system, it reduces the tactical approach to only one thing, while realistically, without any physical barrier, a strong fleet in SoH can plain an simple wipe the whole city right away if they want. Plus, this approach would only make sense if you're planning to take the system; as I mentionned, destroying an enemy strategic position without claming it is a perfectly valid tactic, and I honestly wouldn't see myself use propaganda if I were planning on leaving no survivors.
Well, I have nowhere in this thread mentioned that the solar systems just suddenly change ownership to your empire when the siege is done. It is just meant as requirement before being able to them capture or bombard the cities in the solar system.
I mean your "Planetary Shield" could be used as a lore wise reason if you want. All claimed worlds in a solar system is automatically protected by a world wide shield that makes everything on it invulnerable to attack, so the attacker has to station a warship in the system for x number of days until the shield systems run out of fuel or they hack it or whatever. Mechanical how it works is what matters, how it looks or quacks doesn't matter too much.