Transfer occupation back to war leader

[TheMeInTeam]

If the AI is transferred a province it does not want, it should transfer it back to the war leader.

Too often right now the AI will refuse provinces transferred to it hold occupation on provinces it clearly doesn't want (and can't be given as a result). There is no upside in the AI holding onto provinces it doesn't want, especially since you can't give them those anyway.

Also, subjects should always transfer occupation to their overlord if they don't have claim/core at first. I'm seeing nonsense like Athens refusing to transfer occupation of provinces in Bulgaria it can't even core.

 

[Chaingun]

If you have specific examples, please upload the saves. I've already reworked this a bit, but it's better to be able to check against actual saves.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

If you have specific examples, please upload the saves. I've already reworked this a bit, but it's better to be able to check against actual saves.

I might just, but that's a separate issue that I believe is happening more so with marches than vassals (Marches are the only time I've noticed it from subjects, so far).

At least on 1.14.3 (I can't play 1.14.4 until I get home a good 6-7 hours from now), if you transfer an occupation to any AI ally in a war, they won't transfer it back...even if they don't want it. This can lead to situations where you can neither give them the province nor take it for yourself, and is easily reproducible at least on the previous build.

 

[Chaingun]

Think it will be impractical due to internal code reasons to solve this in every case but it can probably be made less common (that's why I'm especially interested in saves where AI is *very* off).

The hotfix doesn't change anything regarding this, the changes are currently untested and will be in 1.15.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Alright, once I have access to my saves I'll see if I can come up with one. For now, these are the things I can confirm happen:

1. Marches will sometimes occupy provinces and refuse to transfer them, well out of coring range (I suspect this is a separate issue).

2. I have yet to see an AI transfer any province back to war leader if the war leader transfers it to them.

The scope of this suggestion is to make the AI transfer to WL in any instance where it is set (correctly or not) to be unwilling to take the province. I wasn't thumbing for a bug report here, but if I can find something useful in one of the saves I have or encounter it I will post it.