Culture Wars

mica8911

Warlord
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How does culture work when yours is flush with someone else? Is there a difference every turn or only when a cities culture expands?
 
not just when a city expands, and i don't know all the math involved but in a crapshot...

if you border someone else and are fighting for the "fat cross" squares between them, the cross will go to who has more culture. i might have it for 4 turns, until you whip a theater and work culture and you will reclaim it - not by expansion but by dominating a certain percentage of the culture in those squares.

The difference therefore is every turn but you have to have a certain ammount of culture to actually begin "pushing the boundries" of your opponent back.
 
Every turn each city adds its culture to every tile in its cultural radius - with a bonus of 20 for each time its cultural level has increased after reaching the tile.

Example: IF a city has expanded twice and produces 2 culture per turn it will add 2 culture to the 16 tiles outside its BFC but in its cultural radius, it will add 22 culture to the outer 12 tiles of its BFC, and 42 culture to the 9 central tiles.

A city adds to every tile in its cultural radius regardless of other factors, A tile is added to be every city whose cultural radius it is within.

A tile is controlled by the empire with the largest amount of culture in the tile that has the tile within one of its cities' cultural radii. Except that a vassal "gives" control to its overlord if it is in the BFC of one of the overlord's cities.
A tile with a city doesn't change with culture, however this puts it under "cultural pressure" which brings a risk of revolt and can cause the city to change nationality.

The percentage shown on the map doesn't change much because you are usually talking about small changes - say 20 - in a large accumulation - often 1,000's or 10,000's.
 
I've had border tiles in my color when the tool tip showed the other civ to have more culture in that tile. That's something I don't understand.
 
A tile is controlled by the empire with the largest amount of culture in the tile that has the tile within one of its cities' cultural radii.

I don't get this sentence, could you dumb it down for me? :crazyeye:
 
I don't get this sentence, could you dumb it down for me? :crazyeye:

If the city actively putting strong foreign culture on your tile no longer exists (i.e. razed or captured ;) ) the tile will switch to you even if you own very little of the tile's culture.
 
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