HungryMouse
Chieftain
When in CIVIII I never even thought about trying to achieve Cultural Victory, well don't even know why, maybe because of my rather aggresive playing style. But with CIV IV I feel that CC is an interesting winning option mainly due to the religion aspect that has been added to the game.
So I started two my last games with Space Race victory tuned off so that I could concentrate on culture, I also refused wars and lived peacefully (almost, except maybe a couple of wars with psychotic Isabella and Tokugawa) building culture producing buildings in three of my most promising cities. I had all but one religions available in them and consequently a whole bunch of temples and cathedrals in them. However I only managed to achieve legendary culture in my capital, and two other cities had only around 55,000 culture points with 75,000 needed (Epic speed, Noble) by the time I achieved time victory.
So I would like to ask for a strategy of winning by culture. Specifically I'd like to know your opinions on the following subjects:
= which leader to pick (I played Louis)
= what should I build in cities and more important WHEN?
= what these three cities have to be specialised in, should they have farms or mines around them?
= should specialize them in terms of wonders of the same type, I mean building only Wonders that produce Great Artists in one city, build wonders that produce Great Scientists in another etc?
= does using the culture slider increase culture production in the cities?
= is there sence in switching a production in the city to Culture?
Thanks in advance
So I started two my last games with Space Race victory tuned off so that I could concentrate on culture, I also refused wars and lived peacefully (almost, except maybe a couple of wars with psychotic Isabella and Tokugawa) building culture producing buildings in three of my most promising cities. I had all but one religions available in them and consequently a whole bunch of temples and cathedrals in them. However I only managed to achieve legendary culture in my capital, and two other cities had only around 55,000 culture points with 75,000 needed (Epic speed, Noble) by the time I achieved time victory.
So I would like to ask for a strategy of winning by culture. Specifically I'd like to know your opinions on the following subjects:
= which leader to pick (I played Louis)
= what should I build in cities and more important WHEN?
= what these three cities have to be specialised in, should they have farms or mines around them?
= should specialize them in terms of wonders of the same type, I mean building only Wonders that produce Great Artists in one city, build wonders that produce Great Scientists in another etc?
= does using the culture slider increase culture production in the cities?
= is there sence in switching a production in the city to Culture?
Thanks in advance
. The Cultural Slider will help later after you get the techs needed (mass media). The slider can make a fully developped wonder rich city produce 1k culture per turn at 100% with culture production. Great artists are helpful if 1 city falls behind. The 14 culture per turn before mods can greatly exceed the 6k from the great work (on epic).
