Okay, I'm almost done wiping out the entirely continental Old World (only one civ left, but then it MAFed, so I took a break).
Playing from scratch and on MY rules (merged units, customizable leader traits, some more stuff).
It's fun, and I don't give a quack about what some losers say,.
But why am I posting this?
Because I just found out a really FUN thing - sometimes, destroyed cites give you not Captive Civilians (though those are also good), but Ancestral Bands... with CULTURE promos!
Loool!
I wanted to "adopt" all the Continental Cultures, and Pedia said I needed 7 x Local per each, for it to become Adopted.
So I conquered the whole continental Europe (means everyone minus England), got lucky that it summed up as EXACTLY 7 x cities with Local European culture.
Then I built a Local European in Jerusalem and wanted to test whether it'll stick after I get rid of the (really burdensome) cities in Europe.
Well, the very first city I razed proved two things:
(1) Jerusalem kept the Local building, but the Adopted auto-bulding disappeared ("not meeting the requirement" anymore).
(2) Like I said above, razed cities may provide you with an Ancestral Band equipped with the city's Culture.
So I razed all the unneeded cities (did NOT get lucky with any more A.B.s, though), and started my quest for Asian/African.
Okay, to be honest, I wiped out the entire Africa (minus Ethiopia, "for culture breeding purposes") FIRST, so I went for Asia instead.
And also did some math - there aren't enough continental Asian civs to produce an Adopted Asian Culture (still even before Tribes yet, lol).
So I chose to eradicate all Asian civs (minus Japan, obviously), and see if I can get some A.B.s with Asian Culture.
And guess what - I did, THREE of them (and ONE that somehow didn't have any culture on it, but still counts as a free Settler, lol).
Right before the MAF, I finished settling all my new cities (my economy IMPLODED, of course, but I have money above 10k somehow, so I'll manage).
So my next goal is trying my luck with Ethiopia (meaning, reloading until it clicks) in order to get an African Ancestral Band as well.
Or, I could just leave it alone for a while and let it start building new cities - but it's not gonna happen any time soon, so I think I'll rather try a couple reloads for a Culture Settler instead.
If unlucky, well, I'll have to wait - it's not like my other "projects" need to be stopped while I raze cities, hehehe.
Yes, Pit, THIS is how you should play the Earth map, LOL!
(No screens for now, since I wasn't planning on posting half-baked jobs. Maybe later, when I get ALL my cities to become combined Med/Afr/Asi/Eur cultures, loool.)
EDIT:
Local African culture successfully introduced as well (in a single city, for now).
I'm now the single live civilization on the entire Old World continent.
England and Japan will have to wait until I get normal ships, because I don't want to risk losing units to sharks or build ports half a world away just to kill a single civ, lol.
And, of course, my economy is very negative now, but I still have enough money to buffer it for a while even at 100% Research, so we shall see.
Yes it abusing AI stupidity.
I put that on the todo list.
