colonial war, bad coding

[Giiberish]

Hi

In my current game as Portugal I am at war with France who is claiming one of my colonial possessions. The war has lasted 20 years with me being utterly crushed on the mainland with revolts popping up everywhere.

The problem im having is the war will not end since France is not sending any troops to the colony to capture it and I cannot give it up or get a white peace for another 50 years of pointless warfare.

Are there any other diplomatic options I can have or is this something I have to wait out?

 

[JimboOmega]

Hi

In my current game as Portugal I am at war with France who is claiming one of my colonial possessions. The war has lasted 20 years with me being utterly crushed on the mainland with revolts popping up everywhere.

The problem im having is the war will not end since France is not sending any troops to the colony to capture it and I cannot give it up or get a white peace for another 50 years of pointless warfare.

Are there any other diplomatic options I can have or is this something I have to wait out?

Theoretically...

If you control the province in question, you should get the "ticking" warscore. This will tick up to 40%.

Also, the "length of war" value will gradually increase, bringing France to the peace table eventually. It should not take 50 years.

At some point, and I don't understand the mechanics, but "Call For Peace" will start pushing up THEIR WE. Which would also encourage them to make peace. In the meantime, forget about the mainland, use your MP to reduce WE, and just chill.

 

[Xara]

I don't think call for peace applies unless you have fulfilled the war goal. And he is likely far in the negatives with war score due to all his homeland being occupied. And he cannot get out of it due to continual revolts and ticking war exhaustion. And the opponent will not accept any terms due to having so high of a war score.

 

[Reezy]

This probably won't get fixed until the next expansion, which will hopefully take care of stuff like this. It's frustrating but hang in there!

 

[Noctus]

I think its time for Console-Man and his sidekick Tag-Change to get rid of this AI-glitch.

Pause, Shift+2, then "tag FRA", try to get a sensible, realistic peace solution, send it to yourself, "tag POR", accept it. AI glitch worked around.

Or if you still cant give the colony to france, unpause when france and send an occupational army yourself to the province so they finally get it and you can give it to them.

needs just a little bit selfcontrol to not turn this into a clear cheat for your gain, but keep it into a workaround for the AI-glitch.

 

[El Jojo]

It's part of a bigger problem, which is the AI does not seem to "understand" wargoals and does not seek to achieve them. If it does it's out of luck (it asks for a border province and just happens to occupy it as it attacks). That's why many wars end with strange peace.

 

[StatikShocker]

you're going to want to use ~ on a PC, not shift+2.