featherverse

The issue with open borders is so glaring that it destroys any sense of immersion for me. I do not expect this to be officially fixed anytime soon, as it should have been fixed during development (not a good sign). So I was wondering if it would be possible to mod the game's core rules to solve this issue? Either adding a restriction to require a declaration of war before entering the borders of another civ, and/or allowing a ruling civ to attack ships within it's own borders

Open borders does nothing, because borders are meaningless already. This is very sloppy for what otherwise seems like a very polished game. It is not even a difficult thing to solve. Either disallow traveling thru other civ's territory without declaring war, or even better, allow the ruling civilization to attack enemy ships indescriminately without declaring war. This is such an obvious flaw and so simple to fix that I am very disappointed.