Does anyone know if you will be able to peacefully get smaller empires to join you?
for instance if an empire only has a couple of cities and you have 10... they may choose to join you.
This would be especially useful if minor civilizations are introduced to the game.

Sorry if someone has posted this before, I couldnt find anything after a quick search.

Does anyone know if you will be able to peacefully get smaller empires to join you?
for instance if an empire only has a couple of cities and you have 10... they may choose to join you.
This would be especially useful if minor civilizations are introduced to the game.

Sorry if someone has posted this before, I couldnt find anything after a quick search.

If you're talking about culture flipping, I have to say that I've never seen a capital do that before. But who knows what they'll cook up for Civ4 :D

Not sure about the completely joining your empire, but one of the releases did say that your culture could completely cover another Civ's cities. Likely this means that you'll have a greater influence over them than if they had their own culture.

Which would mean that there is now a difference between culture and nationality, like in Civ 3. In Civ 3, if your culture influenced another civ, they joined you. Apparently, this is not the case in Civ 4.

@searcheagle: well, we don't know yet if a city will subsume to cultural pressure to join another Empire.. I'd wager Cultural Conversions will be an option to check/uncheck before you start play.

I think now, in civ4, their will be a real difference between cultural and militaristic domination. In real life, a city can be under the power of one civ, but culturally dominated by another civ
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That'd be neat, culturally dominating another civ's city...And if the other civ goes to war with you that city could be upset!

Good idea, salty. Civil disorder in those cities could be a reason to declare war against them.

yes thats a great idea salty. That would really showcase the power of culture. I think that religion should play a similar role, in that if you control the holy city and you declare war on another civ, all of their cities with that religioin should go into revolt.