Not sure that this is a bug...

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Playing a small game against the Iridium Corporation and I conquer all their planets but Iridia. It has a huge population (over 37 billion). I have tried everything I can think of, filling the transport to 10 billion, and well what else can you try? They have no ships showing in orbit, I have researched all military tech related to invasion. The invasions are not failing, they are not initiating. I click on the planet and my transport just stops as if there were defending ships in orbit.

Unless there is a feature that somehow protects a planet from any invasion, it has to be a bug. If it is just a beta hangup that's fine but this is what I mean about the end of 4X games being tedious. They should have surrendered many, many move ago. It was never meant to be a very challenging game and The IC never had a prayer, yet they require me to conquer every last planet. Even if the invasion had proceeded on the first try, it would have been too much. 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Its a bug and quite common.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Okay, I finally figured it out. For some reason stationed ships are not showing up. After quite a few turns a colony ship and a constructor tried to make a run for it and left the planet open for invasion...Game Over!

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Thank you for reporting this, it is a known issue at this time.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Franco, reply 2

Okay, I finally figured it out. For some reason stationed ships are not showing up. After quite a few turns a colony ship and a constructor tried to make a run for it and left the planet open for invasion...Game Over!
End of Franco's quote

So if you dont want to lose a planet put a constructor in orbit and then they cant invade! :rofl:   (until they fix it in a patch) >_>   lol

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Echelion, reply 4


Quoting Franco fx,
reply 2

Okay, I finally figured it out. For some reason stationed ships are not showing up. After quite a few turns a colony ship and a constructor tried to make a run for it and left the planet open for invasion...Game Over!



So if you dont want to lose a planet put a constructor in orbit and then they cant invade! :rofl:   (until they fix it in a patch) >_>   lol

End of Echelion's quote

LOL, it doesn't always work that way. I had no problem destroying orbiting ships until it came down to the last planet. This is the only time I have seen the bug so I don't know how often it happens. Very rare it seems.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Aliens shouldn't be surrendering planets anyways. This also reminfs me of another problem of aliens trading away their good planets.