A question for players experienced with civilization cultural victories.
This is a game with some changes from the editor (no philosophy bonus, no ancient tech trades), emperor, huge, some self restrictions (the important one is no declaration of war allowed, no rejection of peace treaty if the enemy pops up to ask for one, no MA or MPP if the other tribe is at war with someone I am not, no tricks to provoke was indirectly, like spy spamming, etc,etc, Basicaly, only way to make war is if someone declares on you on the fly.). No specific VC intended.
I built cities OCP style in anticipation of either republic or communism and filled most gaps with extra cities, kept them at size 8-9, so as to drop a worker/settler if they start to irritate the "proper" cities, intending to dispand them after hospitals and join my workers in the main cities. That time has come, the save will send you into the first one of those cities ready to be dispanded. All cities called "farm-X" are supposed to be dispanded, except some obvious front ones.
But now I wonder....Because the whole continent somehow only had 2 luxuries and communication was impossible before magnetism, I decided to build temples and cathedrals in many of my cities, including some of the farms. I have a lead in culture. This makes me wonder if a cultural victory is realistic. I can easily build the missing cultural buildings and add up colosseums, then keep my farm cities at size 1 or size 7 or something. Does this offer a realistic chance of a cultural victory? How many points is it on huge? The trick is that I do not know if the Spanish or the Persians are ever going to attack me, which will allow me to expand my territory. I have a relatively small army hoping to lure them into attacking.
Of course, the game is won (or is it not? perhaps some monster civ may emerge from the west and I will not be able to attack them), I have a huge lead and spaceship/diplomatic victories available (the only civ that declared on me, I killed) but I am interested in examining the cultural option nevertheless. I am quite unexperienced with not-predecided cultural victories.
This is a game with some changes from the editor (no philosophy bonus, no ancient tech trades), emperor, huge, some self restrictions (the important one is no declaration of war allowed, no rejection of peace treaty if the enemy pops up to ask for one, no MA or MPP if the other tribe is at war with someone I am not, no tricks to provoke was indirectly, like spy spamming, etc,etc, Basicaly, only way to make war is if someone declares on you on the fly.). No specific VC intended.
I built cities OCP style in anticipation of either republic or communism and filled most gaps with extra cities, kept them at size 8-9, so as to drop a worker/settler if they start to irritate the "proper" cities, intending to dispand them after hospitals and join my workers in the main cities. That time has come, the save will send you into the first one of those cities ready to be dispanded. All cities called "farm-X" are supposed to be dispanded, except some obvious front ones.
But now I wonder....Because the whole continent somehow only had 2 luxuries and communication was impossible before magnetism, I decided to build temples and cathedrals in many of my cities, including some of the farms. I have a lead in culture. This makes me wonder if a cultural victory is realistic. I can easily build the missing cultural buildings and add up colosseums, then keep my farm cities at size 1 or size 7 or something. Does this offer a realistic chance of a cultural victory? How many points is it on huge? The trick is that I do not know if the Spanish or the Persians are ever going to attack me, which will allow me to expand my territory. I have a relatively small army hoping to lure them into attacking.
Of course, the game is won (or is it not? perhaps some monster civ may emerge from the west and I will not be able to attack them), I have a huge lead and spaceship/diplomatic victories available (the only civ that declared on me, I killed) but I am interested in examining the cultural option nevertheless. I am quite unexperienced with not-predecided cultural victories.
