First culture flip! A little confused

sav

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• Jul 15, 2013

• #1

So I just had my first city culture-flip to me - it was on the other side of the world, we don't share borders, and I'm only 34 percent influential in culture. We are opposing ideologies - I'm freedom, he's order.

Does this sound normal, or like a fluke?

 

anandus

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• Jul 15, 2013

• #2

It sounds right? Why should it be a fluke?

 

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VainoValkea

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• Jul 15, 2013

• #3

The other player was doing poorly and their city wanted to join your better ideology, nothing strange about it.

 

sav

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• Jul 15, 2013

• #4

anandus said:

It sounds right? Why should it be a fluke?

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Didn't see it coming! I guess it works considerably differently to Civ4. Been a while since I had a culture flip...

 

pintocat

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• Jul 15, 2013

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I had a tourism-heavy game and when I finally flipped a city, it didn't go to me-- it went to Netherlands, who just 1 turn earlier had adopted my ideology... I even had a closer city than they did. I don't know why it went to them.

 

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VainoValkea

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• Jul 15, 2013

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pintocat said:

I had a tourism-heavy game and when I finally flipped a city, it didn't go to me-- it went to Netherlands, who just 1 turn earlier had adopted my ideology... I even had a closer city than they did. I don't know why it went to them.

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The distance modifier is based on one's capital, not just any city, as far as I know. Also, perhaps the Dutch were more culturally influential than you? The fact that they only recently adopted Freedom doesn't really make a difference, I think.

I wish Civilopedia wasn't a piece of junk right now, so we wouldn't have to guess...

 

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sliverius

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• Jul 15, 2013

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how to calculate the city flipping progress? i dont really understand, how much tourism you must have

 

Eagle Pursuit

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• Jul 15, 2013

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I flipped another civ's puppet from a different continent. They weren't even in Revolutionary Wave. They had -19 happiness from Public Opinion. It was a third civ's capital that had been captured earlier, so I liberated it.

 

GAGA Extrem

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• Jul 15, 2013

• #9

What I find odd is that the city is in rebellion for several rounds after flipping.
...makes a big city a quite mixed blessing, tbh.