Why do missiles always take out my plasma turrents first?

A couple of high players have been pickin on me for a while now. I've managed to keep them from getting much of anything, but their missiles are getting frustrating. Why do they always knock out my plasma turrets?

This was the 3rd missile attack and first to get through ABMs btw.

13 rockets from planet Furya [3:177:10] smashed into your planet Melchior [*:***:*] !
4 attacking missiles were destroyed by your anti-ballistic missiles.
defence hit
Anti-Ballistic Missiles 4( -0 )
Large Shield Dome 1( -0 )
Small Shield Dome 1( -0 )
Plasma Turret 12( -12 )
Ion Cannon 19( -0 )
Gauss Cannon 10( -0 )
Heavy Laser 30( -0 )
Light Laser 1005( -20 )
Rocket Launcher 36( -0 )


9 Rockets took out 12 plasma cannons! not cool.


Edit: I can do arithmetic. =/

Really not cool

I think that in the more recent versions of Ogame you can choose the targets you want to hit when you send missiles.

This is true, you can choose a primary defense type as your target, after those are all destroyed the destruction is indiscriminate. Make sure to build like 20-30 Anti-Ballistic Missiles and they shouldn't send more IPM's. 21-31 ipm's + launch deut are very costly.

ive got about 16 ABMs (homeworld) thats still fairly costly to launch 17 to get rid of a few def.

If your armor tech is about equal to their weapon tech then one IPM can only take out one Plasma Turret. Heresy not tested this myself.

Jerk fired a lot of IPMs at me. I had 26 ABMs at the time.

He happened to probe me right when I was collecting resources on one planet to start Astro 10. So, he saw a good amount of resources.

Now he just keeps attacking me. He sends 100+ Bombers, BCs, and Destroyers and takes no losses. Only gotten 10k Metal, 25k Crystal and 40k Deut from me. Definitely hasn't been profitable for him, but making my life difficult.

Have you tried messaging him after you remove all the resources from your planet? That's my first step, remove all res, and ask them to call off the attack citing your removed resources. In my experience, this usually works, however, if you cannot take enough deuterium off and he still get's back at least what it cost him to send the fleet, he will probably not call it off.