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Interesting ideas Olleus. Here's my thoughts on the whole issue.

Firstly, I think the culture bomb should be *Removed*. Great Artists should be able to get you an Automatic Social Policy (maybe only in certain categories-like Freedom, Tradition, Liberty & Patronage).

Secondly, I still believe that Civ4 had the right idea in tiles & cities being able to accumulate the culture of different civs. I'm just not 100% sure how this should impact things if you capture a foreign city. I definitely *don't* think the capturer should ever have to kill off half the population in order to get a working city.

Thirdly, I think it should be possible to shift cultural control in your direction by winning battles for control of said tile. This shouldn't involve automatic control, just a shift towards you. Building, & occupying, a fort on these tiles should also increase the likelihood of the tiles around it shifting to your control. Having majority control over a tile-or city-should definitely impact on trade of same with the other civ.

Definitely city happiness (both local & empire-wide) should strongly impact on how rapidly a city & its surrounding tiles become majority controlled by the conqueror.

Hope that helps.

Aussie.
 
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