How do I get enemies to respect my borders

[Jodien]

The oddest thing is that when you have a culture-free area right in the middle of your territory because of your cities are yet to expand cultural borders to close that 'hole'.
The AI settlers, escorted by good defender units, just seem to know that spot very well, although they don't have its map!
I figure out their intent soon enough and ask them to leave my territory. They do, but instead of going back to where they belong, they are automatically teleported to that culture-free hole in an instant and build their city earlier that they hope!!

So now I generally leave them and concentrate to guard those gaps with a unit or two. When someone starts coming in that direction, I push some more units (any unit will do) to cut their progress.

Also, if you have neighbor civs at your souther border, for instance, and a largely unpopulated area (mostly polar areas), be sure to expand southwards first and nothwards second, then make one of your northern cities produce settlers to populate the north before the other civs start to come with galleys.

 

[Mephisto]

Originally posted by KDan
Kill them and they won't send units in your territory.

If you can't kill them, just put up with it.

Daniel

i totally agree!

 

[Neomega]

I had this problem my first game I ever played. It was the Indians. They built a couple of cities about in what I considered my empire. I had patience and waited for the time to make them pay. There Elephants strolled through my territory as if they owned it as the marched off to war with the Egyptians far far away. My samauri and cannon taught Ghandi a lesson he had to forget, cuz his army was far far away, his cities were spread throughout my empire, and fell without whimpers. I felt sorry for him as he began leading conscript riflemen out to die, but I remembered his treachery, and destroyed him mercilessly. And oooh, did it feel good.