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Old September 9, 2002, 09:19   #1
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Whats up with the culture swaps?
I dont think I understand the culture thing. Am I suppose to build lots of pretty culture improvements and hope they conquer my nieghbors. Ive had times where my cities abadon me.


Whats the best building routine for good culture?
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Old September 9, 2002, 09:33   #2
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I dont think I understand the culture thing. Am I suppose to build lots of pretty culture improvements and hope they conquer my nieghbors. Ive had times where my cities abadon me.


Whats the best building routine for good culture?
Lauren, check the following thread - you should find what you are looking for there:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=51715

Briefly: for your own cities, you do not want to have any one of the tiles in their 21-tile radius controlled by an AI civ. You need to "generate" some culture in your cities to expand/maintain your borders. You do that by building Temples, Libraries, and other culture generating improvements. Your first city starts off with a free Palace, which is the very first culture generating improvement in the game, adding 1 culture point every turn - that's why your borders expand 10 turns after you found your first city. However, for other cities, you have to actually build something that will generate culture/expand borders - usually, you start with a Temple or Library.

For more info, see the above-mentioned thread.

EDIT: added a paragraph, corrected a typo

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Old September 9, 2002, 10:12   #3
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Firaxis has said that this will be optional in the expansion, but I like it. It usually helps me win.
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Old September 9, 2002, 10:20   #4
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Firaxis has said that this will be optional in the expansion, but I like it. It usually helps me win.



Can't you just uncheck culture win? Or is this somthing new, a "city can't flip" option?
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Old September 9, 2002, 10:22   #5
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Something new. No culture flips option. See, Coracle, they do listen.
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Old September 9, 2002, 11:58   #6
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theres a tick box on one of the screenshots in the ptw forum, thrawn

in fact theres a lot of tickboxes
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Old September 9, 2002, 18:38   #7
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Something new. No culture flips option. See, Coracle, they do listen.
hmm, I think it's a question of getting eugh bored somewhat
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Old September 9, 2002, 19:15   #8
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theres a tick box on one of the screenshots in the ptw forum, thrawn

in fact theres a lot of tickboxes

I don't go to the forums anymore, but thanks for the input.
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Actually... I like culture flipping. I like to leave some gaps in my 'kingdom'. Then some stupid civ will place cities on those gaps. Needless to say that I have a lot of cultural influence in the neighbouring cities. After some undetermined time - voila - free cities for me.

... at least on easier levels...
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Old October 9, 2002, 13:41   #10
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flipping shouldn't be whole cities. it should be POPULATION points moving across the border to enemy cities. A size 11 city with the hanging gardens should NEVER flip, no matter what the case*.

The cities revolting back to old civs, that's acceptable (and realistic) in my opion. A bit overpowered (i usually end up putting 10- units in it and starve it to a 3), but realistic.

*in case you're unfamiliar with this: check it.

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Old October 11, 2002, 04:39   #11
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Woot is the best way to put it. Definitely!
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Old October 11, 2002, 12:24   #12
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Why on earth would a size 11 city with the Hanging Gardens flip to those size 2 cities? A size 11 with a wonder should have some decent culture by now.
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Old October 11, 2002, 12:35   #13
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Its a Zulu city thats why. The Zulus most likely had only recently finished the Wonder and its equally likely that it was the only culture producer in the city. Zulus are about the most culturaly backward civ in the game and the total culture of a civ is important as well. Since the Zulus had failed to control four of Ulundi's twenty-one tiles there is a flip check on each of those tiles every turn.
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