regarding planets with red indicators and colonization

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these planets have been targeted for colonization by another race. I would hurry and colonize it if I were you. I am concerned that we can even see that. how would we know what they were planning on colonizing.

regarding how we colonize. I would suggest a sphere of influence. withing a certain distance of your colonies I would think that it would be off limits for colonization unless you were in declared war state.

This is based on what I have seen. if I am wrong please correct me.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
It's been mentioned already, that only the test versions will show where the enemy is headed.

But I gotta agree with that suggestion. Borders seem to be a very good idea. It may be space, but the idea of spheres of influence should be known to each race.
Though I don't agree that a declaration of war should be automatic. If the enemy is many times more powerful, you might want to simply accept his rude behaviour.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
maybe some form of nearest colony code, based on planet size/prestige.
To determine if you can colonise a planet you check to see if any empire has a sphere of influence on that planet. This would sum up the 'influence' values of all the nearest enemy colonies and divide by their distances from the planet. If this was greater than some figure (Sphere of influence SOF) then you cannot colonies without giving the other empire the right to attack this planet. If you have a higher SOF on that planet you can colonise anyway.
The 'influence' values could depend on prestige, industry, military, population, etc. A nice idea would be to add technologies which improve your 'influence' or reduce your SOF value so that as you advance, more unowned planets are considered within your SOF.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Nice idea.

I hope there's a way to implement that without giving the Civ3 team a legal case. :D
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Alpha centarui had it before Civ3 and I'm sure other games had it before that. It's how you implement it that would be important, not the idea, as spheres of influence is a globally understood concept.