Hey there, so I'm a little confused about cultural mechanics in this mod/K-mod in general.
Specifically, I am wondering about Machu Picchu in my current game here:
As you can see, it's under quite a bit of cultural pressure, and even had a revolt or two. In fact, it even flipped to the Inca after the current turn of the attached savegame, and the game didn't even tell me about it. No message, no entry in the log, no nothing, I just randomly decided to move the camera over to the city and found that suddenly it was an Incan city again. Now this is unfortunately difficult to reproduce exactly since I play with the New Random Seed on Reload option enabled, as I am a filthy dirty cheater with an aversion against randomness, so you are just gonna have to take my word for it.
Apart from that missing heads up about a city just up and leaving my empire, there are two other things I am curious about:
One, I heard rumors that in Kmod culture from deep within my core can help in culture fights on the border, but I have no idea how this works exactly.
For instance, you can see here that Machu Picchu is quite isolated from the rest of my empire, with some formerly Roman nomansland and one of my vassals in between.
Now I'm wondering, if I hire a bunch of artists in these far away cities deep within the heart of my empire
would that have any effect whatsoever on Machu Picchu's likelihood to revolt?
Two, is there anything I can do but adopting Autocracy or abusing the RNG to keep Machu Picchu? Quantity of garrison troops doesn't seem to have any effect, and I have been doing whatever I can to increase its culture output, constructing appropriate buildings, raising the culture slider, I even settled a Great Artist for crying out loud!
I really want to hang on to that city, it's my symbolic spit in the face of Huayna and Shaka, those dirty double-crossing traitors who massacred the innocent people of San Francisco without provocation.
On an entirely unrelated note, I have read somewhere that corporations in this mod spread on their own. I couldn't yet verify this as so far there is only one corporation in this game and it's on a different continent. If this is true, might I ask how you accomplished that so that I may steal this feature for another mod?