Why can't I offer to transfer systems to my ally?

[pendantry]

Hi

II was just embroiled in a civil war with a machine intelligence that had erupted in a neighbouring empire, one that's in my federation.

When the war was over, I found I had three of my ally's systems. I want to give them back to him (because they're playing havoc with my economy!), but I can't find any way to offer them to him. I thought you did that with a trade deal, but when I open a trade deal with my ally, I don't see any option to offer him systems.

What am I missing?

[EleventhStar]

you can only give away systems that your ally is bordering.

the AI will always reject trading their systems to you though.

if the systems don't have inhabited planets in them, you can also just delete the starbase/outpost if you don't want them an ymore.

[pendantry]

EleventhStar a écrit :

you can only give away systems that your ally is bordering.

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OK, but the systems are bordering his empire. I can't find the right combination of buttons to press to offer them to him :(

[EleventhStar]

pendantry a écrit :

OK, but the systems are bordering his empire. I can't find the right combination of buttons to press to offer them to him :(

like this https://imgur.com/9KDHu1Y
you get to that screen by offering trade deal in the diplomacy/communication window.

i could even do that with non-allies.

however, i was at war in the first game i loaded to test it, and i couldn't do it in that. so make sure you and your ally aren't at war and that should be it i think.

[Random]

yeah needs peace and the systems in question must be bordered. but in MP it can lead to some pretty awesome stuff.

Like having 1 of you go genetic engineering and the other go psyonic, then you have the psyonic guy transfer you a border planet with his guys on it and you genetically modify them with erudite etc. then you transfer it back and he uses his new god teir population to colonise the rest of his empire.

works good if the genetic engineer is a hivemind or xenophobe as that also gives you the option to make the other non enhanced population of his empire have themselves some accidents by stuffing them all on some other freshly colonised rock planet and then you purge them :>

[pendantry]

EleventhStar a écrit :

pendantry a écrit :

OK, but the systems are bordering his empire. I can't find the right combination of buttons to press to offer them to him :(

like this https://imgur.com/9KDHu1Y
you get to that screen by offering trade deal in the diplomacy/communication window.

i could even do that with non-allies.

however, i was at war in the first game i loaded to test it, and i couldn't do it in that. so make sure you and your ally aren't at war and that should be it i think.

Ahhhh.... that must be it, we're at war with another empire at the moment. Thanks for putting me wise!