Culture Bomb doesn't work

[SRVclctr]

I've tried searching for any other threads on this issue, but can't seem to find any. When I try to use my Great Artist for a Culture Bomb, all that happens is that he lights up and disappears, I get a pop up about the CB, but the borders of the city never change--even if those borders are up against open territory. It may be a bug, but I can't tell for sure. Has anyone else had this problem?

 

[timtofly]

A Culture Bomb is used to take culture from another AI or CS. You have to be in your territory, and it will only effect the tiles (of the other player) that are next to the tile the Artist is on. With 6 sides to a hex, it may be possible to get 5 tiles, but mostly you can only get 1 - 3. It is not used to expand a cities culture if the city is alone by itself. You have to buy tiles in the city screen to do that.

 

[Tokira]

I've tried searching for any other threads on this issue, but can't seem to find any. When I try to use my Great Artist for a Culture Bomb, all that happens is that he lights up and disappears, I get a pop up about the CB, but the borders of the city never change--even if those borders are up against open territory. It may be a bug, but I can't tell for sure. Has anyone else had this problem?

The culture bomb adds the areas around the great artist to your territory. So if you use the culture bomb when there are none hexes that aren't inside your territory around your great artist, the bomb will be useless.

So the optimal place to put your great artist into is a place with as little your territory near as possible. The maximum tiles you can gain is 5, since the artist has to be at least near to your borders.

@timtofly The artist doesn't have to be inside your borders. It just has to have one tile of your territory within 1 tile away from the artist.

 

[timtofly]

From Manual:

A Great Artist can “Culture Bomb” any tile inside or adjacent to your territory.
That tile and all six surrounding it immediately become your territory.
A Culture Bomb will “flip” foreign territory to your territory, but it won’t flip
a foreign city (although the foreign city may suddenly find itself surrounded by your terrain).
Flipping foreign terrain is not an automatic act of war, though some civilizations will no doubt
find the act offensive. Note that another artist can flip the terrain back at a later point –
there’s no limit to the frequency or number of times that a tile can flip during a game.

 

[Ahriman]

Unlike Civ4, you use him out in the field, not in a city.

 

[timtofly]

Unlike Civ4, you use him out in the field, not in a city.

Is it true you can get 7 tiles at once as long as one of those tiles touches your border? I thought that it was expanding your border as a flip. You can't just create a 7 tile culture area out in the middle of nowhere, can you?

 

[SRVclctr]

OK, I get it now. I was so used to the Civ 3 and 4 systems that it never occurred to me to try the Culture Bomb outside of a city--much less outside of my territory. Thank you very much--this has been most helpful.

 

[Kyroshill]

Is it true you can get 7 tiles at once as long as one of those tiles touches your border? I thought that it was expanding your border as a flip. You can't just create a 7 tile culture area out in the middle of nowhere, can you?

No.... your GA must be touching at least 1 hex already under your control

 

[blind biker]

I felt personally offended when Civ V introduced the term "culture bomb". It's like telling me that the Civ IV concept of Great Artist is nothing but a dumb, culture bomb. I hate the guts of whoever came up with that.

 

[joyous_gard]

I felt personally offended when Civ V introduced the term "culture bomb". It's like telling me that the Civ IV concept of Great Artist is nothing but a dumb, culture bomb. I hate the guts of whoever came up with that.

LOL. I feel you dude. It was cool when we said it, but it's like our dorky parents are saying it now.

 

[blind biker]

LOL. I feel you dude. It was cool when we said it, but it's like our dorky parents are saying it now.

It's not just that (but it's that, too): I find it stupid to imagine this artist dude just "explode" in the middle of nowhere, and that somehow adds the surrounding tiles to your city/empire. A big WTH to that! Why not just replace everything with coloring crayons, and start painting the tiles with our colors? And the civ with the more crayons wins.

 

[Jarnin]

Think of it like the great artist is performing his masterpiece, and it has an affect on the surrounding cultures.

 

[blind biker]

Think of it like the great artist is performing his masterpiece, and it has an affect on the surrounding cultures.

Must be a helluva one-time performance. Sorry, but this is just BS, along with the buying of tiles and the fountain of youth. And the amphibious units. And the global happiness. And the unhappiness for conquering a city (that's BS on the 1000th power).


I'm quite serious when I say, a coloring game where you win if you paint more tiles around your "cities" would be more realistic than Civ V.

 

[Yzman]

Must be a helluva one-time performance. Sorry, but this is just BS, along with the buying of tiles and the fountain of youth. And the amphibious units. And the global happiness. And the unhappiness for conquering a city (that's BS on the 1000th power).


I'm quite serious when I say, a coloring game where you win if you paint more tiles around your "cities" would be more realistic than Civ V.

I don't understand why you don't like buying tiles or units embarking. Both are welcomed additions I would say. If anything, I wish they would expand on the buying tiles more,where I could buy from other civs.

 

[blind biker]

I don't understand why you don't like buying tiles or units embarking. Both are welcomed additions I would say. If anything, I wish they would expand on the buying tiles more,where I could buy from other civs.

See, buying from other civs makes sense. Buying from nobody, at an ever increasing price makes ... what sense?

 

[lschnarch]

It's not just that (but it's that, too): I find it stupid to imagine this artist dude just "explode" in the middle of nowhere, and that somehow adds the surrounding tiles to your city/empire. A big WTH to that! Why not just replace everything with coloring crayons, and start painting the tiles with our colors? And the civ with the more crayons wins.

Don't be so ungrateful.
Haven't we got the "pointiest stick" and the "shiny things", too?
Haven't we been invited to learn about the "biggest, badest unit" "...and bears, oh my.."?

Aren't all these terms perfectly adressing the target audience of PG light?

Maybe you cannot adjust to new times, but when I was at the age of 11, I really thought this would be "cooool".