How to destory civ spire buildings

[chemical_art]

A very minor question, but yet important.

According to the tooltip I should be able to destroy civ spire buildings so they don't keep adding more AIP. Yet when I send a fleet to attack they just hang around the building and do not shoot at it. How do I destroy it?

[Red Spot]

Dont know the building myself, but with some other things you just need to target it manually, sometimes capturing a planet will allow you to 'delete' things. I am afraid I am now pointing out the obvious though ... 

[chemical_art]

Manual targeting has been tried, but it is a good first suggestion. The building is immune to scrap, but to first capture the building you must capture the planet which in itself defeats the purpose of destroying it rather then going through the AIP cost of capturing it.

[Red Spot]

Starting to think they are not intended to be destroyed and so forces you to take at least 3 in order to get a bonus out of them. (Otherwise you could take 2, nuke 3, and end up with -1 AIP/sec for the rest of the game.)

[Kemeno]

There's a special key combination (I believe it's X+right click) that's used to target buildings that you really, really shouldn't want to destroy (advanced factories and fabricators for example). (Is that what you meant by manual targeting? If so, just ignore me...)

[chemical_art]

I'll try that, I have not yet before.

[Spikey00]

I think you have to have the planet captured or in neutral state for you to destroy them.

[Vinco]

Note:  If the planet is in neutral, you will still get the AI progress bonus reduction.

[chemical_art]

I attempted to use the ctrl + x method of destroying the object. It did not work.

There are several things however:
The only place I found that mentioned the command was not in the control window in the game but the actual manual itself. It took a very brief description that said to the effect of "on capturable target object" a very vague term...In addition, the civ spire is minor faction object, not an AI object. Could the "capturable" tag somehow get messed up because of this?



So I guess this is a dev question: What must be done to destroy the station?
It cannot be scrapped, so you can't destroy it that way. You can't target it using ctrl + v. The tooltip clearly, explictly says they can be destroyed. I assumed you would only destroy it and not capture it because you could not recoup the AI cost of destroying the planet by defending it so simply wanted to cut the increasing AIP.

[BobTheJanitor]

In beta 4.055 these were changed to a -3 AIP per hour instead of -1, so it doesn't take quite as long to recoup the losses from taking the planet. I don't know if the tooltip got correctly updated though. I'm surprised they're not at all targetable though. That might just be a bug that needs to go up on mantis. I guess you could capture them and then scrap them out of spite. Not exactly helpful though.

[TechSY730]

The old "force attack" command mapping (ctrl+x) was broken when x was repurposed. There has been no replacement since. In fact, there is not even a place in the keybindings for it, IIRC.

They need to bring it back.