mid/late 1939 ethiopian war still going

[Ptolomy]

so as the title says weirdly the war is still going on even though there are no others in the war and ethiopia is FULLY conquered? i'm bout to reload my save so if I can grab some screenshots I will

[Aluvard]

Not a bug.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/394360/discussions/0/4406291873009886035/

[Ptolomy]

everything I read from your post said something about taking to long.....my current game is literally july 13th 1936....got the notification of ethiopia capitulating but the war still wont end....that is most definetly a bug I'm sorry but a war forced to continue after winning for zero reason...HAS got to be a bug.

[Immortalis]

Originally posted by Ptolomy:

everything I read from your post said something about taking to long.....my current game is literally july 13th 1936....got the notification of ethiopia capitulating but the war still wont end....that is most definetly a bug I'm sorry but a war forced to continue after winning for zero reason...HAS got to be a bug.

No, it's not a bug.
It's a precise and deliberate design meant to replicate the historical results of the Italo Ethiopian War, with Selassie fleeing the country and forming the equivalent of a government in exile (exactly as Poland, Belgium, Holland, France, Norway etc did during WW2) and local partisans fighting the Italian forces on the ground.

If you want to prevent that from happening, you'll need to prevent Selassie leaving the country thus preventing any formal resistance to your conquest. In game terms that means within roughly the first 70-80 days (aka before Ethiopia completes her focuses and Selassie leaves the country)

[Ptolomy]

so even though playing as ANOTHER FACTION you support italy and they win the war fully and massively it means NOTHING.....because well their now forced into a constant non existent war? I just checked my current game is june 13th.....your telling me ethiopia as an ai can force italy into a stalemate....WHEN THERE ISN'T ONE the land has been FULLY conquered.....where is this magical stalemate forcing the italian war to continue just allowing random other ai to get involved down the road? that sounds more like a bug to me than actual game design but maybe i'm the crazy one in thinking that if your ally has completely conquered a country within months of the GAME STARTING...(less the 6 total months).....that country with ZERO ways to actually do any of the things that are claimed(in the short amount of time the war went on for....at that point its a bug in the fact that there is completely zero reason to buff your allied italians because and I'M LITERALLY USING CHEATS....the real war took italy from october of 1935 to february of 1937.......your telling me an ethiopia that got wiped in half the time....has a fully stable support system forcing said italian ai into a war that still hasn't ended in 1939....with ZERO OTHER WARS YET.....there is zero logic behind that process and forcing wars that CANT end on the ai...makes zero sense....and doesn't feel like it was designed to be that way....and considering the changes done to the game over the years...i'm sorry but if its ♥♥♥♥ design even its not a bug...it should be fixed.....also gotta love it...yeah I just straight let the game play at max speed while I typed....its now 1942......the italian ethiopian war....still going....rest of the world at war...italy is DOING NOTHING BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN IN A CONSTANT WAR FOR 7 years(game starts after the actual war does) A WAR I remind you they've won....since june of 1936....as in I got the notification as Argentina that ethiopia had capitulated then...but the war and all the debuffs...NEVER ENDED....please explain to me how that would make sense as not being a bug? the design your describing might be the cause but its definitely not working as intended.

[Immortalis]

Originally posted by Ptolomy:

so even though playing as ANOTHER FACTION you support italy and they win the war fully and massively it means NOTHING.....because well their now forced into a constant non existent war? I just checked my current game is june 13th.....your telling me ethiopia as an ai can force italy into a stalemate....WHEN THERE ISN'T ONE the land has been FULLY conquered.....where is this magical stalemate forcing the italian war to continue just allowing random other ai to get involved down the road? that sounds more like a bug to me than actual game design but maybe i'm the crazy one in thinking that if your ally has completely conquered a country within months of the GAME STARTING...(less the 6 total months).....that country with ZERO ways to actually do any of the things that are claimed(in the short amount of time the war went on for....at that point its a bug in the fact that there is completely zero reason to buff your allied italians because and I'M LITERALLY USING CHEATS....the real war took italy from october of 1935 to february of 1937.......your telling me an ethiopia that got wiped in half the time....has a fully stable support system forcing said italian ai into a war that still hasn't ended in 1939....with ZERO OTHER WARS YET.....there is zero logic behind that process and forcing wars that CANT end on the ai...makes zero sense....and doesn't feel like it was designed to be that way....and considering the changes done to the game over the years...i'm sorry but if its ♥♥♥♥ design even its not a bug...it should be fixed.....also gotta love it...yeah I just straight let the game play at max speed while I typed....its now 1942......the italian ethiopian war....still going....rest of the world at war...italy is DOING NOTHING BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN IN A CONSTANT WAR FOR 7 years(game starts after the actual war does) A WAR I remind you they've won....since june of 1936....as in I got the notification as Argentina that ethiopia had capitulated then...but the war and all the debuffs...NEVER ENDED....please explain to me how that would make sense as not being a bug? the design your describing might be the cause but its definitely not working as intended.

First of all, holy wall of text, geez

Once again, it is working as intended.
The war with Ethiopia going on after their capitulation is intended and is meant to represent the historical behaviour (Italy and Ethiopia singed the peace treaty in February 1947, not a day before).
You have one way to avoid the war going on, which is to conquer Ethiopia within the first 70-80 days (something that AI Italy will never do); and exactly one way to end the war after that timeframe: capitulate the nation hosting the government in exile (which typically means England).

It was designed this way precisely because the already existing government in exile mechanic could not be applied since Ethiopia isn't a member of any faction and making it a member of said faction would mean the entire faction going to war with Italy on day 1; which again is definitely not intended behaviour.

You may dislike the mechanic but it's working precisely as the devs intended it to work