Let's say as the Romans, I am at war with Germany, conquering a lot of German cities and installing new governors in each one. That reduces the German cultural influence. Meanwhile, however, this allows the influence of a third party (say, Egypt), who is not involved in the war on either side, to come flooding in. Indeed, depending on the situation, Egypt may wind up gaining more territory from the war than Rome does. In such situations, I have tried building "culture generators" like libraries and such in the newly conquered cities, but that doesn't much help the problem of them flipping to Egypt. I even tried sending settlers and putting them in Egypt's path, but that didn't really help either. So what am I supposed to do in this situation? Am I supposed to crank up my culture slider a lot higher?
conqests that benefit third parties - how to stop?
- Thread starter Lehuster
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Garrisoning troops in a city will prevent it from culture flipping but it won't save the city from losing what would ordinarily be workable tiles to the culture of a third civ that has spent much of the game exerting cultural influence on those tiles.
When exterminating a civ, I first make a tour of all of its border cities (or the vast majority of them) in order to determine the level of culture that neighbouring civs exert upon the land. Any cities that would lose significant space (for me, this can be as low as 2 tiles) to neighbouring cultures - any cities whose tiles display less than 100% ownership of the cities civ - are razed upon capture leaving the core cities unmolested by cultural invasion.
When I play with city razing switched off I take all cities but allow the lesser cities to be culture flipped to my new neighbours. They aren't doing me much good and by the time they do flip I should have build up enough culture in the cities I wish to keep to turn the AIs new cities into marginal gains.
When exterminating a civ, I first make a tour of all of its border cities (or the vast majority of them) in order to determine the level of culture that neighbouring civs exert upon the land. Any cities that would lose significant space (for me, this can be as low as 2 tiles) to neighbouring cultures - any cities whose tiles display less than 100% ownership of the cities civ - are razed upon capture leaving the core cities unmolested by cultural invasion.
When I play with city razing switched off I take all cities but allow the lesser cities to be culture flipped to my new neighbours. They aren't doing me much good and by the time they do flip I should have build up enough culture in the cities I wish to keep to turn the AIs new cities into marginal gains.
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Crank up your culture slider.
Or go to war with Egypt.
Or go to war with Egypt.
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