Taking a planet...bug?

[boomer]

I attempted to take a planet from a user with a much lower rank (9000's vs my 5000's). I hit him with 2100 Gliders. He had such defenses in place that he destroyed all my Gliders in one hit. How is it we can attack a lower power MS and destroy no shields or weapons. But one planets defenses can wipe out all gliders in one hit? WTH??? Here's the details


As with all battles, this one has been recorded for the official history of your realm. You, of course, are the first to know the results as they are reported directly to you first. This is the official report of the battle:


The fleets of ***** invaded the planet **** in the realm of *****

****** sent:
2,100 Enhanced Networked Glider Squadron

**** planet *****resisted the aggressors with:
MASSIVE AMOUNTS of planet ground based defence facilities.

In a fury, the two opposing forces clash!


The forces of ***** rush in full force, and inflict 931,392,000 damage on ****** forces!

The artillery of ***** fought back with all they could, and managed to inflict devastating damage on **** forces! So much damage, in fact, that while fleeing ***** fleets could not accurately judge the extent of the beating...
It was confirmed that The defences of the planet held up under attack!
31 defence facilities were destroyed, though, in the course of the battle.

Your Fleet strength went from 57,600 to 0. In short, they were completely annihilated! This amount is directly related to the fire power on the planet.

The forces of **** repelled those of ****

[Zeratul]

the reason for that all were lost is probably that the planet defense strength is at least 10 times your fleet strength...

[ThunderCat]

People can put huge defenses on planets and not upgrade their motherships if they want... he probably doesn't want that planet to be stolen, so he put a huge defense on it and you lost your fleet. The reason that when you attck a lower MS and not destroy anything is that it doesn't have anything to begin with.