The best way to have this work if you really want to go all out, would be if the attacker designated a number of solar system at the time of declaring war. Then have the designated solar systems be locked in a un-surrenderable state, instead giving the defender an option to surrender the war which then automatically surrender the designated solar systems to the attacker.
While the war is going on the defender could then declare war against the attacker, designating solar systems they want if they even believe they can fight back. Simply have any aggressive wars by the defender towards the attacker immediately end if the empire surrender to a defensive war against the attacker.
The major issues with this is that it requires a lot of intel about your enemy. An attacker needs to know about all the solar systems they want to attack/capture beforehand, and possibly also need to be able to designate more solar systems during the war.
You can't have this simply automatically designate all the worlds belonging to the defender, because the defender might have far off hidden bases that the attacker shouldn't just randomly be allowed to take over because they won a tiny local war in the main cluster.
Some players here might recognize this idea as having a lot in common with games like Stellaris and other strategic war games. So I would love to hear you guys' ideas on this subject. My main issue is in believing a system like this could be implemented perfectly on the first try.
While the war is going on the defender could then declare war against the attacker, designating solar systems they want if they even believe they can fight back. Simply have any aggressive wars by the defender towards the attacker immediately end if the empire surrender to a defensive war against the attacker.
The major issues with this is that it requires a lot of intel about your enemy. An attacker needs to know about all the solar systems they want to attack/capture beforehand, and possibly also need to be able to designate more solar systems during the war.
You can't have this simply automatically designate all the worlds belonging to the defender, because the defender might have far off hidden bases that the attacker shouldn't just randomly be allowed to take over because they won a tiny local war in the main cluster.
Some players here might recognize this idea as having a lot in common with games like Stellaris and other strategic war games. So I would love to hear you guys' ideas on this subject. My main issue is in believing a system like this could be implemented perfectly on the first try.