Sick of weak weapons being able to glass a planet.

Set DUC unable to target planets.

While your at it, change ALL weapons unable to target planets, except for Bombardment weapons. This way everyone has to research them to glass a planet.

The AI will be unable to compensate for this change, and will be less a challenge then usual.

The Stats I use,

Combat Fighter Group Amount := 20
Combat Mine Group Amount := 20
Combat Satellite Group Amount := 20
Defending Units Per Population := 0.2
Population Defender Attack Strength := 10
Population Defender Hit Points := 30
Automatic Colonization Population := 0
Planet Value Percent Loss After Owner Death := 10
Retrofit Cost Percent For Comps := 120
Retrofit Cost Percent For Comp Removal := 30
Retrofit Max Percent Difference in Cost := 75
Empire Base Planet Mineral Usage Rate := 3000
Empire Base Planet Organic Usage Rate := 3000
Empire Base Planet Radioactive Usage Rate := 3000
Maximum Emergency Build Turns := 5
Construction Queue Emergency Build Rate Percent := 250
Construction Queue Slow Build Rate Percent := 25
Damage Points To Kill One Population := 250000
Population Required to Operate One Facility := 50
Remote Mining Decreases Asteroid Value := True

as well as (more importantly)
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Population Structure Per One := 5000.0
Population Cargo Space Per One := 40.0
Supplies Structure Per One := 0.40
Ordnance Structure Per One := 0.40
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Though I think I'm gonna increase the strength of the Ord/Supplies structure as its still too easy for a few ships to deplete a planet of all its supplies and ord in a combat.

This way it will take a fleet with bombard weapons and large/heavy mounts to glass a planet. Not a scout with a Duc.

All values are found in the settings.txt and much easier than altering all the differing weapons for planet target settings.

In the Components.txt

The Ship/base weapons section, find the weapon type, and change this line:

"Weapon Target Type List := Ship, Base, Planet, Fighter, Satellite, Drone"

to NOT include planet, like this :

Weapon Target Type List := Ship, Base, Fighter, Satellite, Drone

... repeat as necessary for all weapons you do not want targeting planets.

There should be some differentation between domed and non-domed planets when it comes to ship to planet combat. It should be easy to wipe out a domed colony and a lot of work to wipe out a non-domed colony.

As damage sits now, I think a colony is just rated by it population and the dome is just a population limiter instead of being a major liability in combat.