When is an opponent Defeated?

if a player wont quit, how do you run them out of the game?

from Sins Forums
Hey all,

I've played a few games in the last couple of days where an opponent was thoroughly defeated but didn't quit.  In one particular game, even after destroying all their worlds they didn't quit.  In watching that replay, they retained two capital ships and about 25 kodiaks but no colony frigates or colony capitals. 

What are the precise circumstances whereby a player is force-defeated?
strategy
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Losing all colonies is the ultimate defeat. To my knowledge, there's no bug that makes it not the case, so chances are your opponent managed to re-colonize a planet?
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
a lot of the time its until u blow all ther stuff up including ther fleet.
Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
You need to destroy every colony they have AND every ship capable of making a new colony. This includes colony capitals.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Oops just noticed you said they didn't have either type of ship (I need to lrn2read the whole post it seems)... I don't know then, that should kill them. are you 100% sure they didn't have a colony ship tucked away somewhere?

I've never seen anyone not be defeated by killing colony ships and colonies.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Are you sure you didn't get the Victory screen already? If you get a Victory screen but select "Keep Playing", you won't be able to get a Victory screen again.


Mad Cat
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
As far as I know, locked teams will have team players defeated all at once when the last colony/coloniser dies.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
The Irony in multiplayer is that if a losing player doesnt quit the game , the game can essentially take hours to mop up. Ive rarely won a game that involved killing everything , especially after the siege nerf.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
Often times people will quit/surrender when one side has obviously won though.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
Yea , but sometimes you get a remaining player who decides do some zoomed in sight-seeing until they are dead.

Ive sometimes begged players on the losing team to just quit and end the game. Even tell them its okay if they quit instead of surrender , just so the game will end.
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

I know the feeling.
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
I'll have to watch the replay again -- there MIGHT have been an AI colony ship out there...
Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top
Just watched a replay. 2 players quit/surrendered, only 1 opponent left.

Changed to their point of view, they had 1 ship, a scout, 0 capital ships, 0 planets, 0 colonizers, game kept going until they quit.

I triple checked.

Seems kind of queer that they can stay in the game with 1 ship. They parked it on the sun.
Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top
Aaah, guerilla tactics. I love 'em.
I'd use them every now and then on Starcraft when someone annoyed me.
Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top
I had the opposite problem once, I took over everything but an asteroid, but the game gave me victory having not taken it (it was upgraded, so it wasn't a problem with insufficient credits, and the AI NEVER use all their resources!)
Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top
If teams are locked and he has an ally that lives, he will not die. You can kill all his ships and planets and he is still technically not dead, till his ally dies. Otherwise a player dies when all his colonies die. A team dies when all of the team colonies die. It may so happen that someone will die, and his ships left on autocast will recolonize a planet, but he will not be able to move his ships or build anything new if dead.
Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top
There should be an option for win = kill homeworld.