Pirates invasion & hunting grounds - NEED HELP

[Tschoob]

Hi there! First of all I would like to say this is really neat hame and I'm having a blast with it. Nonethless I've came to a point where it started to frustrate me. My problem is that the pirates invaded 1 of my key systems and I would really like to retake it, however the game tells me I can't colonize it becuase the system is now hunting grounds - WTF?!? Soo the question is - can I retake it somehow while not loosing dozens of improvements built there? PLEASE HELP!

[Tschoob]

I tried different things and nothing works, it seems I just can't retake the system and I'm forced to wait 25 turns in which pop and imp are all destroyed. Only after that I can make an outpost from scratch. Is this a bug? If not this is the most retarded mechanic ever... I'M PISSED!!!

[Lack of Stuff]

Originally posted by Tschoob:

Hi there! First of all I would like to say this is really neat hame and I'm having a blast with it. Nonethless I've came to a point where it started to frustrate me. My problem is that the pirates invaded 1 of my key systems and I would really like to retake it, however the game tells me I can't colonize it becuase the system is now hunting grounds - WTF?!? Soo the question is - can I retake it somehow while not loosing dozens of improvements built there? PLEASE HELP!

Are you using mods? I've never heard of pirates doing ground invasions or creating hunting grounds.

[Groo the one]

Originally posted by Lack of Stuff:

Are you using mods? I've never heard of pirates doing ground invasions or creating hunting grounds.

Not sure about these hunting grounds, but pretty sure pirates do ground invasions - so far. I'll have to find out about. Sorry for beeing no help at the moment. Someone else ?

[Tschoob]

Thanks for the replies guys!
AFAIK pirates do ground invasions in vanilla when their lair reach level 4 or 5. Wish I knew that before it actually happened to me lol.
Aren't the hunting grounds supposedly be reserved only for Vodyani faction?

[Brannigan's Law]

In my vaulters game you can disguise your fleets as pirates and start ground invasions. If the attack is successful the system turns into hunting grounds.

[Tschoob]

Thanks for your insight that explains it a bit, however I do not own the vaulters expansion, so I suppose other faction eg. Vodyani can do it too. Could you also let me know how I can counter the hunting grounds as there should be something for balance sake, am I right? Already tried googling for answer but with no success...

[xkuripuri]

Originally posted by Tschoob:

Thanks for your insight that explains it a bit, however I do not own the vaulters expansion, so I suppose other faction eg. Vodyani can do it too. Could you also let me know how I can counter the hunting grounds as there should be something for balance sake, am I right? Already tried googling for answer but with no success...

You might be one of the fortunante ones who got the Vaulters expansion content to unlock early. So you probably won't find a lot in Google yet, because that expansion wasn't meant to come out until tomorrow, meaning not a lot of people have tried it out yet.

[Tschoob]

Uhmm it's paid expansion so I doubt it, I did not have any option to play as vaulters or make it as AI. At the moment it doesn't matter really I just want to know how I can counter hunting grounds as it's driving me insane...

[󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡]

Any faction can do that, and could before the expansion. If you capture a system using privateers, you get the same message: "it's the pirates' hunting grounds" because for all intents and purposes privateers ARE pirates.

AFAIR, you should be able to retake the system. Not sure why you can't.

[Tschoob]

Now we're getting somewhere!
You mean retake it by a fleet, invasion or to recolonize it or is there something else I could try?
FYI I play as Sophons

[queenelise9830]

Recolonization is the way I seem to remember. Either they changed something or it's a bug...

[Tschoob]

I thought this too as the tooltip hinted:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1280266181
WHile trying to do so the lower left corner RED text abolishes that somehow?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1280266226

[󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡]

The "empire" that won't let you recolonize it is the pirates? Looks like a bug, possibly related to the not-yet-quite implemented feature of pirate diplomacy. I'm pretty sure they also have changed the hunting grounds tooltip. I would suggest you take it to G2G and see if a dev can take a look.

Good luck.

[Your Mother's A Good Woman]

Hmmm.. interesting. I guess it has to be a bug. Maybe try reporting it to the devs. It's odd that it says "you can recolonize to get it back", then says "you can't recolonize to get it back".

[AdrianDeWinter]

I just had the same problem, only way i found to "fix" it was reloading an earlier autosave :(