or at the very least make them less aggressive when they spawn with higher tech and literally dozens of armies. It's literally impossible to move scouts within my own territory because they get immediately pounced upon by this aggressive piece of coding its INFURIATING that the only method to stop is conquest or "diplomacy" both of which are incredulously expensive. the independent AI on its own makes me not want to play this game at all. Don't even get me started on how infuriating it is that they take simultaneous turns as the player because it makes my blood boil and whichever intern thought that up shouldn't be thinking anymore.

This is the wrong forum.

Moved the thread, also sorry, had originally moved this thread to the wrong forum.

I agree that the IP are a bit much. In my current game, my nation is surrounded by them. I think there should be 1. an option to take their city as an outpost instead of a city and 2. an option to turn them off by type.

Independent peoples have their uses and certainly are not pushovers. 

I'd advise constructing a couple more advanced units earlier to secure your boarders as well as have the opportunity to gain military stars fighting independent units or taking their city for yourself.  

The fact that they out unit you in a single turn is absurd, to be surrounded by 4 highly aggressive cities all with 4-6 armed units, completely screws up my early game, time and time again. They can stay if that had more sensical and logical growth, but this instant op spawn is just daft.