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Oh, they likely have more than a billion per world. By default, a planet has a population cap of 8 billion (no farms). However, my plan (pending approval of the War Council) is to first take the worlds inside our borders. They'll have less population due to being newer, and they'll solve the problem of our worlds being influenced.

From what I can see, most of their worlds are undefended, and the only combat ships I can see are heavy fighters with 3 missile attack. We've got a large number of Phoenixes (heavy fighters with 1 beam attack), which can be upgraded to NRDLs once we have the proper tech. In the meantime, they can still destroy ships. With more worlds becoming industrialized, the number of warships we can produce rise dramatically.

Yes, we'll need to research planetary invasion before we can do anything about the planets, but that's really the only way to take those planets away from the Krynn. They just have too much influence to take any other way.

Is it really that important?

I use threads and forums like these to find awesome stuff to play...so yes.

This is not the preview. This is me, pausing the turn halfway thru, because I am thoroughly pissed 

Boatmurdered, for instance. The planet has two embassies and an influence starbase (upgraded twice). You'd think that'd be enough to out-influence a class-4 Krynn world in the same system with nothing but factories, right?

WRONG

Boatmurdered, despite my best efforts, is slowly succumbing to Krynn control.
Our territory is completely surrounded.
The idea to let the Krynn colonize low-class worlds in our territory, hoping for a repeat of Mars, has backfired horribly and now several of our worlds are inside the Krynn sphere of influence.
The Krynn have also delcared war on several civilizations, major and minor. The Krynn are winning.
We cannot produce the NRDL, the only ship so far capable of standing up to Krynn vessels, because our miniaturization tech is too low.

Basically, we're pretty much boned. Any suggestions would be wonderful.

First time playing cataclysm.  Have no idea what I'm doing, try to fight off a horde of zombies in a field with a steak knife after I figured out that firing a gun to kill a squirrel is in fact, a bad idea.  Death 1

Find a gas station, decide to blow up a gas station for the lulz (who can resist really) escape the explosion easily and then turn a corner to get vomited on by a boomer.  I stab it and it explodes.  By the time my vision cleared I was surrounded by no less than 20 zombies.  Death 2.

Go to a bar.  There's a fucking bear in the bar.  Why is there a fucking bear in the bar.  Get eaten by bear. Death 3

...goddammit. I'm just gonna HAVE to go play Cataclysm, aren't I? 

((Why a pickaxe?))

Plants are not like factories. They do not provide production, they boost it. Sorta like those tiles that boost a single building, but applied planet-wide.