Insolence from AI opponents

[Mountain King]

Something that really makes me angry, is when a AI opponent comes with a settler and builds a city right beside one of my own, inside my territory. This happens with opponents who I'm not in war with, and they often build it in places which I at the moment can't see.

Anyone got some solutions to this?

 

[Smash]

Actively patrol borders and order them out at once.If they refuse,you have the war you need to destroy them.

Bribe them if they aren't a Democracy.Or subvert if you don't want to risk a governement collapse(only for Republics or Democracies)

 

[ArmOrAttAk]

Oh I hate that. Try to be the one building your city 2 tiles away from theirs. That pisses them off just as much.

 

[Hawkster]

Other options are:-

1.scatter cheap units (warriors etc) around to prevent the AI settling - using the ZOC to prevent them getting to the free spaces. You could use faster units like horsemen or chariots to rush to where the AI is. Try and trap them in a corner or in mountains where they can't build

2.Use units to block access - look for choke points or areas you can prevent the AI from getting past.

 

[ferenginar]

ZOC works on AI?

ferenginar 39

 

[duke o' york]

Of course. Even explorers, who ignore ZOC, still exert one so you can just use a curtain of units to block the AI out. They should be fairly expendable though, with a better attack force primed to strike back straightaway.

 

[Lucky]

And don´t forget to expand as quickly as possible yourself. When you have settled your desired territory, use the tactics above to defend those borders.

 

[Mountain King]

All right, thanks, but what is "ZOC"?

 

[Ace]

"ZOC" means zone of control. It is usually one square in all directions that a unit exerts an influence into. An AI unit can move into a zoc, but cannot move directly from one zoc to another.

Its an old term from the board wargaming days...ah nostalgia!!

 

[ElephantU]

AI never sends a defense unit along with settler in your territory, so the settler will never "settle" and build city if it sees one of your units adjacent. So when you see them enter your territory, assign a unit to shadow them to keep them from settling. When they enter city radius, use Foreign Minister to demand they be removed (if you have peace or alliance - doesnt work if you are at war or ceasefire - but then you should be bribing or killing them anyway...).

 

[funxus]

If you have an alliance with them, they have the right to be in your territory, whether you like it or not. I'd bribe the city if I have the money. The worst is when you talk to them, and they tell you they want us to give back the land that was rightfully theirs

 

[Ohwell]

Ah, I hate this. Especially when you have a fortress and it is really in your territory, and you are using that square, but it just happens to be in their "radius" . They tell you to leave, and I just hate it!

 

[duke o' york]

They can't order you to leave a square if one of your cities is actually working it. The game I'm playing at the moment has Madrid down to size 1 (fortunately on a grassland under Despotism so no growth there), with only one shield so they pose no threat whatsoever. I have done this by wiping out all of their other cities and then planting several cities around the capital. By either bribing their units or moving my own in, they will tell me to get out of their territory. I have to do this next turn of course, but if you finish a turn with one of your (land) units on a square used by another city then you can use that tile yourself. Each time they tell me to move, I switch to the nearest city, steal the land from under my unit, and move my unit out again. Next turn, I'll move back onto another square and do the same thing until they are supported by the city square alone.

 

[gr8ful wes]

Man I had it last night real good, The senate was continually signing treatys/cease fires and the whole world is allied against me. They seem to go out of there way to send cannons and marines to mill about my turf til they decide that they want to attack. They usually bust there heads agains my walls/vets but they still manage to knock off the odd engineer and really disrupt my production. Why dont they just fight amongst themselves and let me build my infrastructure and get rich so I can burry them later?

Amazingly, my reputation continues to remain spotless. and I do not have the UN.

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

IIRC, the AI can demand you leave the territory of their city even if it's in the radii of one of your cities if their city was built before yours.

The senate was continually signing treatys/cease fires.......
......and I do not have the UN.

That's part of the reason they were always agreeing to peace. The UN allows you to avoid a peace signing approx. 50% of the times you try to to avoid one.