AI steals occupation right(?) from me

[Kryndude]

I was attacking enemy capital starbase when another ai that was at a seperate war with my enemy comes in late and steals the occupation from me which is preventing me from getting the ai to surrender. I tried save loading but they still get to occupy for whatever reason. Is it because they gave the order earlier than me? What is this

 

[Dinkelman]

Declare war on them too

 

[AlanC9]

So the starbase was destroyed by two different sides, and the other guys got credit for the kill?

Interesting. When fighting with allies, the credit goes to whichever fleet arrived in-system first. Sounds like the game isn't programmed for this situation, so it's just a question of which fleet happens to fire the final shot.

I'd report this as a bug since it doesn't seem to be the design intent.

 

[Duuk]

If you're in a war together with your ally and they have a claim on the system, they will get the occupation if they declared the war (I believe).

 

[Slynx]

If you're in a war together with your ally and they have a claim on the system, they will get the occupation if they declared the war (I believe).

I think OP has a different situation.
if I understood him correctly his empire A is fighting with enemy B. and other empire C is fighting a separate war with B too. and both A and C came to the same system.
while A and C are not allies.

i'll agree on a variant of declaring war on C too. you'll hit two birds with one... fleet

 

[Duuk]

Sorry, I misread the original post. I missed the "separate war" part. My bad.

 

[Apophenia]

I believe it is possible to have more than one claim on a system. Did they have two claims while you only had one claim? Or maybe you should have had two claims?

 

[anamiac]

As part of the war in heaven, I was at war with one of the AE but not yet at war with the other. The AE I was at peace with had taken the starport of the other AE. When I landed troops on the planet, the system was given to the AE I was at peace with because he had the starport and apparently starports are more important than planets. Which pissed me off, as the AE I was at peace with had closed his borders to me, meaning my transport ships were all auto-warped into the nether for a year.

Claims had nothing to do with my situation, as none of us were fighting wars for claims.

 

[Kryndude]

Thanks for the replies. I haven't checked how many claims the ai had (in fact is it even possible to know that?) but at least I had only one so that may have been the reason. Although I doubt it...

 

[Slynx]

(in fact is it even possible to know that?)

go into claims menu and check a system. also you should get an error\warning if someone has more claims on a system then you