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Gil Favor's Sidekick
Again this post contains some spoiler information for the June GOTM-8.
If you have not already played the GOTM8 game up to about 1000AD (or finished earlier than that) then you should probably NOT READ THIS POST until after you play further into the GOTM* game.
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Has anyone else observed that the cultural boundaries of captured cities will sometimes stay inflated beyond the 9 square minimum??
I could have sworn that before V1.21 whenever I captured a city, the cultural boundaries would instantly collapse back to the 9 square minimum.
You then had to disband units to rush an initial temple or library if the city had any resistors or was in disorder. This initial rush would sometimes hold out the city borders to 21 tiles but sometimes the city would collapse back to an area of 9 and then pumped back out to an area of 21 when the culture reaccumulated to a significant enough level in 4 turns after the first culture improvement was built.
I noticed that the culture borders did not collapse right away most of the time in this GOTM when I captured cities in the 5 to 8 size range.
As an example, when I captured London I knew the city contained the pyramids plus at least Libby's palace for culture. The pyramids had been built in 30BC and captured the city somewhere around 350AD. The city had a corona that was out to at least 3 tiles width. The palace jumped off to Libby's next largest city and the pyramids stayed but no longer generated any musical notes in the screen. All this was as expected. The wierd part was that the cuture corona for London stayed pumped out to the full 3 tile width except in the areas where the culture boundaries would overlap with Libby's remaining cities.
As a continuation of the example, I could not rush a library right away to start generating culture in London, because I was too busy using cash to upgrade horsemen to knights and also rushing settlers in every possible city. Captured and destroyed a few more English cities and the culture boundaries eventually left a clearly isolate culture corona around London that was the equivalent of 37 tiles in size. This eventual shrank back to 21 tiles in size but I never really rushed a library in London until much later in the game.
This event happened multiple times with different cities from three different civs.
Is this just a fluke or has anyone else seen the effect of non-collapsing culture?
If you have not already played the GOTM8 game up to about 1000AD (or finished earlier than that) then you should probably NOT READ THIS POST until after you play further into the GOTM* game.
.
.
.
.
Has anyone else observed that the cultural boundaries of captured cities will sometimes stay inflated beyond the 9 square minimum??
I could have sworn that before V1.21 whenever I captured a city, the cultural boundaries would instantly collapse back to the 9 square minimum.
You then had to disband units to rush an initial temple or library if the city had any resistors or was in disorder. This initial rush would sometimes hold out the city borders to 21 tiles but sometimes the city would collapse back to an area of 9 and then pumped back out to an area of 21 when the culture reaccumulated to a significant enough level in 4 turns after the first culture improvement was built.
I noticed that the culture borders did not collapse right away most of the time in this GOTM when I captured cities in the 5 to 8 size range.
As an example, when I captured London I knew the city contained the pyramids plus at least Libby's palace for culture. The pyramids had been built in 30BC and captured the city somewhere around 350AD. The city had a corona that was out to at least 3 tiles width. The palace jumped off to Libby's next largest city and the pyramids stayed but no longer generated any musical notes in the screen. All this was as expected. The wierd part was that the cuture corona for London stayed pumped out to the full 3 tile width except in the areas where the culture boundaries would overlap with Libby's remaining cities.
As a continuation of the example, I could not rush a library right away to start generating culture in London, because I was too busy using cash to upgrade horsemen to knights and also rushing settlers in every possible city. Captured and destroyed a few more English cities and the culture boundaries eventually left a clearly isolate culture corona around London that was the equivalent of 37 tiles in size. This eventual shrank back to 21 tiles in size but I never really rushed a library in London until much later in the game.
This event happened multiple times with different cities from three different civs.
Is this just a fluke or has anyone else seen the effect of non-collapsing culture?
) that cities have a "memory" of how much culture it had for each civ. (Civ3spy shows that info). But, I never seen it happen when I captured it (I never tried to rush a temple while it was in disorder too - never knew you could do that).
