My wars keep ending prematurely

[SamsonJerusalem]

In my game so far, I haven't been able to invade any worlds as wars keep ending without any choice on my part. I just get a diplomatic message that I've won the war without any choice to keep fighting. Bugged or feature?

 

[Salvaticus]

They may be surrendering. Did you set war goals at the beginning?

 

[SamsonJerusalem]

I did, to conquest.

 

[Krajzen]

This is is working as designed, enemies may just surrender to your demands if they are losing the war clearly. I am however not sure about the details of this mechanic though.

 

[Fonz]

That's weird, I thought even with 100 war score you'd need to accept their surrender terms. Are you the war leader or somebody else? (I.e you are the one that declared vs allies or federation president)

 

[aitaituo]

Does the Victory alert say something like "We have won with the following demands: Cede planet"? Are you receiving all of the war goals you asked for?

If either side completely surrenders granting all war goals, the war immediately ends.

 

[SamsonJerusalem]

Nope, I just get an alert with "no demands were enforced" with no choice on my part in the surrender.

 

[Meneliki]

Nope, I just get an alert with "no demands were enforced" with no choice on my part in the surrender.

I just got this for the first time. I had wargoals set. The war was going nicely. Suddenly it ended, with no goals being enforced. Hell, if I could do that, I'd never lose any territory. lol.

I would assume it's a bug. My guess is, the "No demands were enforced" text is in the game as a contingency in case you manage to conclude a war without setting any wargoals. Unfortunately, it seems to be forgetting about your wargoals occasionally.

This strikes me as a priority fix, tbh. Hopefully PDX sees this thread. *crosses fingers*

 

[smjjames]

I just got this for the first time. I had wargoals set. The war was going nicely. Suddenly it ended, with no goals being enforced. Hell, if I could do that, I'd never lose any territory. lol.

I would assume it's a bug. My guess is, the "No demands were enforced" text is in the game as a contingency in case you manage to conclude a war without setting any wargoals. Unfortunately, it seems to be forgetting about your wargoals occasionally.

This strikes me as a priority fix, tbh. Hopefully PDX sees this thread. *crosses fingers*

Not sure if you realize you're necroing a thread from more than 6 months ago....

 

[Lothmar]

War ED eh? *snickeR*

 

[Meneliki]

Not sure if you realize you're necroing a thread from more than 6 months ago....

So? Evidently, it's still a perfectly relevant thread as the issue hasn't been resolved.

 

[Meneliki]

War ED eh? *snickeR*

..?

 

[The Founder]

So? Evidently, it's still a perfectly relevant thread as the issue hasn't been resolved.

Given the rare amount this was reported, I find it more likely you just forgot to confirm the wargoals. Can happen, the War Interface has a slight learning curve.

If the enemy surrenders, he automatically gives you every confirmed war demand. Even if that means they stop existing.
Surrender seems to only happen if they are at -100% and have no production ability left. But I had the AI surrender as early as my Troop transport getting into orbit to storm the planet that was already blockaded.

 

[foxboy73]

Not sure if you realize you're necroing a thread from more than 6 months ago....

Strangely enough I've been seeing a lot of necroing on this forum lately.

But as to Meneliki's post you should be bringing this to the bug section not necroing.

 

[Meneliki]

I find it more likely you just forgot to confirm the wargoals.

The game doesn't allow you to declare war without setting goals. They were set. Infact a couple times during the war I checked on the warscore progress.