AI colonising where I can't

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I tried twice to colonise the planet in the picture before the blue AI player. Each time the planet immediately switched to the purple AI player due to the culture.

On the third time that I'd bombed out the colony the blue colony ship had arrived and they colonised it and the planet didn't switch sides/ What gives?


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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
The blue teams culture must have been stronger.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
ohhhh i was wondering wtf was going on myself because this was happenin to me with the yellow team
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
So how is the blue teams culture stronger?

The purple team owned all but one planet within one jump of this planet and I owned the other planet.

I was expecting for the blue team colony to swap over to the purple team.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Or were the Blue and Purple Allies?
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Did Purple have broadcast centers in orbit that you destroyed in your initial invasion? If so, it may just have taken as long as it did for the culture to decay enough for the planet to be held by someone else.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
I had this happen also, I wiped out all but the homeworld of a AI. Planets 2-3-4 jumps away still had the culture lines for a long long time and if I tryied takeing them over they reverted imedietly to AI.
the AI's enpire was totaled, it has no more brodcasters and even planets far away from the AI's last planet where still impervious to all colonization. even though all 'life' had been wiped out for all of those planets for quite some time.
Then a planet close to the homeworld allowed me to take it over?!? but still not the others farther way . . . then a AI team mate got them right from under me.

kind of strange, possably a decay bug? it should decay quite quickly if everything in a few jumps are sterilized.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Part of the problem is that culture is too transparent. We need to be able to click on a planet and see if we have any chance of colonizing it. Maybe at 90% + culture it cannot be taken.

Whatever the case may be, there is no way to see the culture rating of planets you don't own. I think this needs to change.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
I was under the impression that the colour of the phase lines showed the culture.

@kyro, there were no broadcast centres that were built. One was queued (it was transparent).

Agree with Novalith, the culture rating definitely needs to be more visible.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
Yes, and to address, no life = no culture. you should be allowed to start a colony in a vacant system and then see it decay or revert slowly if a nearby culture is too powerfull . . not instantly pop to some alternate one as soon is it is dropped.