In my first game I had war declared on me by 'the red guy' as his empire color was and this guy was already at war with 'the green guy'. It turns out the green guy was beating him pretty badly, and had a fleet stationed on his home system. But I wanted to get in on the action too so I sent my own fleet and was confused why I couldn't invade some of their planets - I was thinking I might be able to capture one or two of the planets in that system before the green guy takes everything.



I thought something was wrong with the game because the icon that gives you the option to invade the system was greyed out and if I moused over it the tooltip ready something about my fleet needing to be in a suitable system to invade.



after a while I realized the game works by invading entire system at once, I thought I could pick and choose what planets to invade. Upon realizing that I assumed I couldnt invade this system because the system was already being invaded.



So just to prevent confusion to other noob players I would suggest that tooltip be changed so if the system is already being invaded it reads something like 'This system is already being invaded by another empire'

Yes, i agree, and in the same subject, a note should be added saying when a star system is under attack (blockades and invasions).

Actually a good idea. That could really confuse people. ^^