Hello. This is my first forum post here, but I cannot find anything like this on google or the forums. This mechanic completely ruined a game for me and my friend. We were playing in a multiplayer game against AI, just trying to learn the game. It was my second game thus far, and it was his first. We had no idea what we were doing most of the time, and so we just messed around with a lot of stuff. Eventually my friend got a war declaration by a species that was fanatic purifier, and they used the war goal of cleansing. They attacked one station of his, and he could not defend because he had a bad defensive army. I declared war on his enemy and I started to move my fleets towards his defending systems. I managed to kill the enemies first fleet, and even managed to take over one of their stations. The enemy then retreated all their units away from my friends borders. My friend tried to make peace with the enemy species, but they had a lower war exhaustions than my friend, because my friend lost his battles. I was quite succesful in dealing with the enemy species, but it had no effect on the war exhaustion my friend had. He could also not attack, since his army production was quite low. He then started to get war exhaustion from attrition. He got around 70% war exhaustion from attrition, and then was forced into a surrender after 24 months after reaching 100%. The only button he was allowed to click was surrender, and so he lost ALL his systems, and was placed as an observer.
We were winning the war, the enemy species had taken over only 1 system, and was not capable of taking over any more. But thanks to the war goal ''Cleansing'', the enemy was able to just remove my friend from the game. Is this supposed to happen? I have never seen anything this ridiculous in any strategy game before. What do I do to prevent this kind of thing happening?
We were winning the war, the enemy species had taken over only 1 system, and was not capable of taking over any more. But thanks to the war goal ''Cleansing'', the enemy was able to just remove my friend from the game. Is this supposed to happen? I have never seen anything this ridiculous in any strategy game before. What do I do to prevent this kind of thing happening?
