Cost Of Next Social Policy

[krasny]

I have been trying for a cultural victory, which seems to be very hard to achieve compared to the others.

After reviewing online guides it seems that the cost of the next social policy varies with the number of cities you have.

Is this true? Is it a simple multiplier (eg x = n * 1.c) where n = base cost and c = number of cities?

I would be grateful if someone would enlighten me in this matter.

 

[MouseyPounds]

It's not nearly that simple but number of cities is factored. See the Number Crunching Thread for details.

 

[krasny]

Something tells me I need to research mathematics as my next tech!

 

[Licinia Eudoxia]

If you mouse over your Culture at the top of the User Interface, it will tell you "Each city will increase the cost of your next social policy by: ___%."

It changes with different difficulties.

You're the second person I've seen that's called Culture victory the 'hardest' which seems weird to me because it seems by far the easiest. I dunno.

 

[krasny]

I think my mistake was to build a shed load of cities.

I've had three games where I've been 3-4 SPs short of building the utopia, with 5-7 cities, then I tried expanding for another couple of games, with similar results.

I tried one city, expanding to two by 1400AD, but the Mongols squished me.

 

[stormerne]

You may find this PDF I uploaded several weeks ago of some use:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=267063&d=1286257160
It shows how the number of culture points you need for a new social policy changes with how many cities you have and how many policies you have already.

 

[Deep_Blue]

I tried cultural victory in my second game in civ5 (standard map, normal speed, king difficulty), I used no particular strategy I was new to the game, focused on wonders and specialists and it took very very long time.. I got the victory at 2049 1 turn before I lose to score .

I dont know the exact formula for next policy cost, but even if this is increased by number of cities you still need more cities to generate a lot of culture.