I have just started a game and was quite enjoying it until I encountered the following situation.

Another Kingdom that I have a non-agression pact with built a city inside the borders of my territory! First off I don't think that anybody should be able to build cities inside other people's territory and especially not if the two sides have a non-agression pact. If they want my territory they should have to come and take my cities off me. Doing this netted them a gold mine that was also inside my territory.

I figured that's the way the game is at the moment so I made a hard decision and decided that I couldn't accept this behaviour from them. I decided to declare war on them. Now the next probelm  rears its head. I can't declare war on them because the option is greyed out in the diplomacy menu. I thought, maybe I had to cancel the non-agression pact first, but there seems to be no way to do that.

I read in a post somewhere that you can only declare war if you have bad relations with someone. Ok - so how do I get bad relations with someone? It sure felt like the relations had gone severely down hill.

Now I am stuck with no way to retaliate against what is basically a blatant act of war.

Can anyone offer a suggestion as to how I can get out of this situation? He has more pioneers heading in to my territory now and for all I know he could start building right next to my capital and I won't be able to do anything about it.

I suppose I could use the same exploit and build in his territory too but I really don't want to play a game like that. I have every faith that Stardock will fix these problems but for now this is a game breaker for me.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?