Wars ending without 4 wins/losses more than once?

zantar · Feb 9, 2020

This is now the 3rd time in about 30 days where the player faction has had a war end without winning/losing 4 days. Anyone else seeing this?

As we can all see in the 36 Doradus system, they got a free win from only one day.

Factabulous · Feb 9, 2020

Not sure why you are surprised. Wars end after 7 days now - pretty well documented in the stickies.

zantar · Feb 9, 2020

Factabulous said:
Not sure why you are surprised. Wars end after 7 days now - pretty well documented in the stickies.

Yeah, but it IS won in ONE day, not 4.
Please look at it again.
"As we can all see in the 36 Doradus system, they got a free win from only one day."

Just Paul · Feb 9, 2020

No you got it wrong. They won the war in 7 days with 1 day dominating the conflict. As Factabulous said it's best of 7 now. You can win a war after 4 days if you dominate each day or you can win in 7 if you dominate 1 day and the opposition none.

Jmanis · Feb 9, 2020

Paul Smith the 3rd said:
No you got it wrong. They won the war in 7 days with 1 day dominating the conflict. As Factabulous said it's best of 7 now. You can win a war after 4 days if you dominate each day or you can win in 7 if you dominate 1 day and the opposition none.

This one.

If neither side participates (or they both participate equally), neither side "wins" a day, so a 1 vs 0 victory is entirely valid.

TBH, that's a pretty misleading stat for Inara to include without also including the length the war has gone for.

zantar · Feb 9, 2020

Jmanis said:
This one.

If neither side participates (or they both participate equally), neither side "wins" a day, so a 1 vs 0 victory is entirely valid.

TBH, that's a pretty misleading stat for Inara to include without also including the length the war has gone for.

It sure is a weird way how it works.
Fight one day and somehow win the whole war?
I know it's best of 7, but...……..
It just doesn't feel right.

Thanks for clearing it up for me at least. o7

Ethaidan · Feb 9, 2020

zantar said:
It sure is a weird way how it works.
Fight one day and somehow win the whole war?
I know it's best of 7, but...……..
It just doesn't feel right.

Thanks for clearing it up for me at least. o7

If it didn't work that way, and one side needed four days of dominating, then wars could go on forever. At least this way wars are capped at seven days.

Jmanis · Feb 9, 2020

zantar said:
It sure is a weird way how it works.
Fight one day and somehow win the whole war?
I know it's best of 7, but...……..
It just doesn't feel right.

Thanks for clearing it up for me at least. o7

When no side dominates a particular day, all that means is a commander didn't participate to influence the outcome. The war was still fought between the two (NPC) sides, they just didn't achieve a decisive advantage on the other six days.

Ethaidan said:
If it didn't work that way, and one side needed four days of dominating, then wars could go on forever. At least this way wars are capped at seven days.

Mmmh... we'd be back to the entire galaxy locked in war then.