Recapturing planets fortifaction can't be bombed

[Eldrish]

So in mu MP game with a friend I captured planets from him, and let my assault troops stay there.
He couldn't bomb the planet and get the fortification down so my troops easily defeated all attempts to recapture it by landing forces.
So this must be a bug. Why isn't he capable of bombarding the fortification to zero?

 

[Obidobi]

Hello!

This is indeed a bug and it is known and reported in our internal database. But thanks for bringing it to our attention

 

[itsuart]

Hello!

This is indeed a bug and it is known and reported in our internal database. But thanks for bringing it to our attention

I don't want to be that guy, but did you just admit that you released game about stellar warfare knowing that half of that warfare is broken?

 

[Nobody987]

I don't want to be that guy, but did you just admit that you released game about stellar warfare knowing that half of that warfare is broken?

It came with most recent patch, previously it worked fine. But generally it is surprising that this bug slipped into patch release...

 

[Dragonmalte]

Did that work in 1.3? Never tried it cause before 1.3 it did not work aswell

 

[Eldrish]

Perhaps there will be a hotfix.
Anyways if one know about the bug one can use it quite hard. But against humans they tend to give u the same treatment

 

[Dragonmalte]

Well you can allways retake the planet by brute force with a lot of armies, you just need alot more or better armies then the defender has to retake it but since only 12 armies can defend it (+some auto spawned really weak armies) that should not be that much of a problem.

 

[terrycloth]

Well you can allways retake the planet by brute force with a lot of armies, you just need alot more or better armies then the defender has to retake it but since only 12 armies can defend it (+some auto spawned really weak armies) that should not be that much of a problem.

Since your armies are doing 1/10th damage, you need about 38 equivalent armies to invade successfully.

 

[SYahoo]

You also can't bombard pre-FTL planets.

 

[Foefaller]

Well you can allways retake the planet by brute force with a lot of armies, you just need alot more or better armies then the defender has to retake it but since only 12 armies can defend it (+some auto spawned really weak armies) that should not be that much of a problem.

Actually, if you're retaking a planet, IIRC there are no-auto spawned garrison troops.

...Which is why it isn't as huge of a deal in SP, since the AI usually never leaves troops on planets they have taken. On the other hand, they also never land troops unless the planet is fulling bombed, so any gains you make are pretty much permanent.

 

[Eldrish]

Actually, if you're retaking a planet, IIRC there are no-auto spawned garrison troops.

...Which is why it isn't as huge of a deal in SP, since the AI usually never leaves troops on planets they have taken. On the other hand, they also never land troops unless the planet is fulling bombed, so any gains you make are pretty much permanent.

It is a huge deal since this game is best played in MP. It is so much more fun, since humans tend not to be as predicable as AI.
but sure in SP it is not so totally agree on that. But Paradox games are always more fun in MP.

 

[Ilanin]

In post-hotfix 1.4.1 (1759) I am still unable to bombard an occupied planet, possibly because it is occupied by unknown aliens spawned by an event (the abandoned terraforming equipment one) or possibly because it's still a pre-hotfix save (though I've been able to bombard planets occupied by other empires in this save).

Savegame attached.

 

[bluelotus]

In post-hotfix 1.4.1 (1759) I am still unable to bombard an occupied planet, possibly because it is occupied by unknown aliens spawned by an event (the abandoned terraforming equipment one) or possibly because it's still a pre-hotfix save (though I've been able to bombard planets occupied by other empires in this save)

Same thing happened to me with the terraforming event. Mine was an 1.4.1 ironman game, no mods. Sadly, my game is past that point so no saves available.

 

[Eldrish]

maybe post as a new bug thread? If it is still buggy in a very narrow event

 

[kfoelsch]

I'm still seeing this bug. Titantic enaged life just p0wned my latest colony!

 

[Boldwyn]

Bumping up,

Got the same bug - cannot bombard a planet occupied by event troops (Tomb World vault), can upload save if necessary.

Version 1.4.1

 

[Risa]

Quoting myself from another report of the same bug:

Cause to no bombardment allowed: The controller of the planet is "Deformed Creatures", a "faction" type country. This type of country is technically not at war with anyone, despite hostile to everyone. So bombardment's condition ROOT.OWNER = { is_at_war_with = FROM.CONTROLLER } is not true.
This bug would also affect other always-hostile types of country, such as pirate, adversary, amoeba, crystal, drone, cloud, if they somehow became controller of a planet. (None in vanilla, though.)

Suggested solution: Change that condition (in file 00_rules.txt) to ROOT.OWNER = { is_hostile = FROM.CONTROLLER } .