Has there been any official word on the Culture Victory?

[Menzies]

Looking through it in my last game, it looked like the following was happening:

- Domestic tourists: Related to total culture produced in some way. How so was unclear, but taking cities from a Civ doesn't impact it immediately, though it can go down over time suggesting that the value is relative somehow. That is, if a Civ is producing far less culture than the leader, it appears that the value of each domestic tourist increase enough for their number of domestic tourists to drop.
- International tourists: Attached to specific locations on the map, based on total tourism produced by them. This means that if you take these, or destroy them, you can reduce that Civs number of International tourists. The numbers can be seen by selecting the culture victory option on the victory screen and then looking at the map.
- The value of each International Tourist is seemingly set by the tourism output of other Civs.

The "get more international tourists than domestic tourists" mechanics seem interesting and all, but without it having any explanation of what's going on, it gets a bit annoying to try and plan for it.

Anybody have a problem description of the systems? That's about all I can figure out without getting out the spreadsheets and just playing a game to look at the systems.

 

[Sagax]

Yeah, it's the most ambiguous victory condition so far. I just assume that at its core it's the same Civ5 cultural victory without GM bombs, and you are now fighting against the top cultural defender instead of each civ individually. Works for me for now.

 

[KrikkitTwo]

No official word yet, but community tests seem to indicate

100 culture of CivA=> "buys" 1 domestic tourist for CivA

For foreign tourists
CivB produces ??? tourism
That tourism is applied to Civ A with certain modifiers (Trade route, etc.)

When civ B has applied 150*(# of civs) tourism to A, 1 of As domestics Tourists becomes a Foreign tourist of B
(-1 to As Domestic Tourists, +1 to Bs Domestic Tourists)

You do Not reduce the number of total Foreign Tourists visiting a civ by taking that civs tourist visited territory Or by eliminating the civs the tourists are "coming from"