Game will not allow me to make claims .... HELP PLEASE

[Irish_Ghost956]

I'm on my second game now and about midway though technology, i can activate the mega gates now. Other Empires keep laying claims to my systems but when i try to do it, the button never highlights. Am i doing something wrong?

[Captain Conundrum]

What kind of empire are you playing as? Some of them don't need claims.

[kbmodigity]

If you are playing as a pacefist empire you cant make claims.

[Jagothegamer]

If you're playing as Fanatic Purifier, Driven Assimilator, or Devouring Swarm, you don't need to claim systems, you can just attack your neighbors without reason, or like everyone else said, Pacifists can't make claims unless in a defensive war where the attacker has a total war wargoal.

[SteelTalons]

Just to add a few things. Fanatic purifiers require an outpost/starbase to be built on the border of a another nation to engage there caus belli and then declare war. claims by non extremist nations also require a certain amount of influence to make.

[UR|wRÅR]

The button has a tooltip, read it.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Originally posted by Jagothegamer:

If you're playing as Fanatic Purifier, Driven Assimilator, or Devouring Swarm, you don't need to claim systems, you can just attack your neighbors without reason, or like everyone else said, Pacifists can't make claims unless in a defensive war where the attacker has a total war wargoal.

THey wouldn't be able to make claims on him either if that was the case.

[admiral awesome]

Colossus?

[Irish_Ghost956]

Originally posted by UR|wRÅR:

The button has a tooltip, read it.

Ive done 3 different empires and it always just says (there are no systems to make claims) and it jsut stays dark.

[Captain Conundrum]

Which empires have you played as?

[kbmodigity]

Are the people your trying to make the clame on a dirrect neibor? I believe you can only make a claim on someone if you have border friction.

[Jagothegamer]

Originally posted by kbmodigity:

Are the people your trying to make the clame on a dirrect neibor? I believe you can only make a claim on someone if you have border friction.

Actually, surprisingly enough, you can claim basicly any system of any empire you know, even if they're on the opposite side of the galaxy. Right now, I have claimed and declared war upon a nation that has zero border friction with me, mostly so I could claim the other side of the wormhole in my territory, so now I have territory some lightyears north of my actuall empire.

[kbmodigity]

Originally posted by Jagothegamer:

Originally posted by kbmodigity:

Are the people your trying to make the clame on a dirrect neibor? I believe you can only make a claim on someone if you have border friction.

Actually, surprisingly enough, you can claim basicly any system of any empire you know, even if they're on the opposite side of the galaxy. Right now, I have claimed and declared war upon a nation that has zero border friction with me, mostly so I could claim the other side of the wormhole in my territory, so now I have territory some lightyears north of my actuall empire.

Yes but doesnt that wormhole make you "neibors", ones that are touching borders?

[Jagothegamer]

Originally posted by kbmodigity:

Originally posted by Jagothegamer:

Actually, surprisingly enough, you can claim basicly any system of any empire you know, even if they're on the opposite side of the galaxy. Right now, I have claimed and declared war upon a nation that has zero border friction with me, mostly so I could claim the other side of the wormhole in my territory, so now I have territory some lightyears north of my actuall empire.

Yes but doesnt that wormhole make you "neibors", ones that are touching borders?

Nope, I can still make claims on litterally anyone else. I haven't actually done that as there is no strategic value in doing so whatsoever, but it's still an option. The only thing that actually requires border friction is declaring rivals.

[kbmodigity]

Ahhhh,, it was probably rivals I was thinking of,, thanks for the clarification.

[Jagothegamer]

Originally posted by kbmodigity:

Ahhhh,, it was probably rivals I was thinking of,, thanks for the clarification.

np :)