Cant declare war. is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

[g.schober]

First time posting I hope one of those two links works.
As it shows I got to the diplomacy screen and click declare war but when I submit my decloration nothing happens and we stay in cold war. Happens with all current enemies.


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[freeobi]

Same problem here....

[SenecaAthena]

Not enough diplo points to afford a DoW perhaps?

[mrmike_49]

Isn't war free to declare?

[Döktor Jönes]

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

Isn't war free to declare?

Only if you have a militaristic leading party

[Argon]

Same happened to me

[Varivox]

I have had this issue before. I found slowing down and clicking on submit button after a few seconds helped "fix" it. I'd submit the "war" declaration and exit out of the window early and it wouldn't register, but giving it a few seconds to process it seemed to help.

[JaPhiSo]

Pacifists can force peace. maybe they did that?

[jfloveiv]

I keep being told the other race is "in discussions with" another party and that I cannot declare war. (Or do any other diplomatic action). How can I declare war on another race that is constantly encroaching on my empire, but that I am in a "Cold War" with??

[utilityguy]

Originally posted by jfloveiv:

I keep being told the other race is "in discussions with" another party and that I cannot declare war. (Or do any other diplomatic action). How can I declare war on another race that is constantly encroaching on my empire, but that I am in a "Cold War" with??

Best way, if declaring war isn't possible for some reason, is to research that system influence buyout technology and increase your border system's influence output enough to start the process of buyout out target systems with influence. The AI should get really angry at that and declare war.

[jfloveiv]

I'm having a problem with Endless Space 2 that maybe you can explain to me. I'm trying to declare war on a pain-in-the-a$$-neighbor and the dipolmatic screen keeps telling me the neighbor is "in discussion" with "another party" and grays out the Submit button. I am in a "Cold War" with this neighbor and it will not let me change that status or attack any of his systems or ships. Any help?

[Döktor Jönes]

Do you have a unprocessed message of the imperium?
Never encountered that problem.

[utilityguy]

If, say, the problem is that the game thinks the target empire already has an ongoing deal with you, checking the right hand side of the screen should show up a hand shake symbol you can click to see what's happening with the ongoing deal(and probably cancel it).

If there isn't one, uh... I don't know what's the best way to deal with that as I haven't run into this problem that wasn't fixed by doing the above. Maybe a picture of the diplomacy screen and the default galaxy view screen could help

[Druitt]

utilityguy probably nailed it: you may have another diplomatic screen with them -- perhaps them offering you something -- that's been minimized to the right of the screen.

[jfloveiv]

I ended up quitting the game. If it happens again, I will look for an unresolved "deal" with them. Thank you.

[Jimbodiah]

this game is dead at this point, so many bugs and hangs... not sure why this is being kept on steam