I am playing as the Chinese in a Standard-sized Continental Noble Game. In the Industrial Era.

I started off on one, big continent with only the Incans, who I destroyed in order to consolidate the continent as my own. The continent was mine by 1580AD.

However, there is a lot of useless tundra land on the southern tip of the continent. Not so much as to be a potential threat should others settle there--this tundra-land is only like 10% of the whole continent--but enough to annoy me on my quest to really OWN my own continent. My cities were too far for their culture to spread down to them, and I, of course, didn't feel like making any cities down there.

There is only one other continent in the whole game, which is where the rest of the other civs are on. They soon saw the uninhabited southern tip of my continent and of course, like stupid AI, sent Galleons across the world to settle in it. The only resources these cities are getting is the coast; the tundra is completely barren. Also, I am the strongest country in the game, only rivaled by one other, who I keep competing with, neck-to-neck, for first place.

This said, should I just let these stupid AI do what they will, or should I take any action? Perhaps I'm just being nitpicky, but I REALLY don't want ANY other cities on my continent...even if it is just very crappy tundra cities.

I would appreciate any advice.

Do what you want, but I don't see why you'd care. Maybe you can even use them to sabotage space ship parts or steal techs.

If you warmonger you can just take them towards the end of the game, although if you really want a purty continent all to yourself just take them ^^.

I am playing as the Chinese in a Standard-sized Continental Noble Game. In the Industrial Era.

I started off on one, big continent with only the Incans, who I destroyed in order to consolidate the continent as my own. The continent was mine by 1580AD.

However, there is a lot of useless tundra land on the southern tip of the continent. Not so much as to be a potential threat should others settle there--this tundra-land is only like 10% of the whole continent--but enough to annoy me on my quest to really OWN my own continent. My cities were too far for their culture to spread down to them, and I, of course, didn't feel like making any cities down there.

There is only one other continent in the whole game, which is where the rest of the other civs are on. They soon saw the uninhabited southern tip of my continent and of course, like stupid AI, sent Galleons across the world to settle in it. The only resources these cities are getting is the coast; the tundra is completely barren. Also, I am the strongest country in the game, only rivaled by one other, who I keep competing with, neck-to-neck, for first place.

This said, should I just let these stupid AI do what they will, or should I take any action? Perhaps I'm just being nitpicky, but I REALLY don't want ANY other cities on my continent...even if it is just very crappy tundra cities.

I would appreciate any advice.


Thank your lucky stars, send a missionary down there to get your state religion in the city before theirs hits and SPY, SPY, SPY!

All of your spying missions will be cheaper with your state religion in the city and all of your spying missions will be cheaper on your continent than way far away on theirs.

If you have your state religion in the city and their state religion is not in the city, it also doubles the chance that the city will revolt from cultural pressure. All in all, I'm now happy when extra-continental AI civs settle on my continent in garbage spots.

...of course, I also settle on their continent in garbage spots sometimes too - just to set up a city with walls, Hospital (if I have medicine) and whatever else I can build to set up a beachhead for invasion. The AI doesn't do it to prep for active invasion plans. The AI does it just because it's stupid.