Borders in GalCiv2?

What exactly do they do?

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Can someone please explain the actual effects of borders in GalCiv2?

Does it prevent other civs from colonizing planets inside your borders? Can other civs move ships into your territory? Can you build starbases in other civilization's territory, etc?

Are there different kinds of border agreements (open, closed, etc.) like in Civ4, etc?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Borders are not really like Civ 4 at all, probably due to it being space and all. Borders do not place restrictions on ship movement, colonization, or any of that, though the AI may be wary if you start moving ships within their territoy.

Borders indicate the area where your influence (culture) score is higher than any of the other civ's. Therefore, enemy planets deeper into your borders will be more likely to switch to your side due to culture, and vice versa. The territory you possess also generates tourism money, which can obviously be pretty handy. I'm pretty certain that civs with the Evil ethic chosen also get money from every freighter of another civilization that passes through their borders.

Of course, having a large territory also wins you a culture victory.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
The lines not the map are not borders, they merely denote the zone where your influence is stronger than anyone else's.

There are no restrictions on starbase construction, colonisation, etc based on the influence zones, though obviously the AI may throw a fit if you move large fleets into its area and it thinks you're getting funny ideas about its planets.

If your planets get enveloped by another race's influence zone the planet may have a chance of defecting to that race (depending on just how much stronger their influence is than yours; the first risk is when alien influence is 4x yours on that planet, and the chance increases from there).
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
While the lines are not anything like borders to begin with, there are a couple of united planets issues that can be passed which change things. For example, starbases outside of your sphere of influence could be hit with a tax.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Thanks for the info guys!