Help the AI

[ferenginar]

Standard Map / King level

I am after a science victory, spaceship currently in production. Brazil is on the point of a cultural victory, Netherlands are their only remaining target.

Is there anything I can do to boost the Netherlands culture, make it more difficult for Brazil, and give myself time to complete the spaceship?

 

[danaphanous]

not that I can think of. There is no way to gift or donate culture.

However, you could invade Brazil and conquer a city to slow them down.

 

[wideframehoss]

You could gift them one of your cities.

 

[sunbeam]

You could gift them one of your cities.

That is an interesting strategy for a Liberty player, that's for sure.

 

[Sclb]

Force them to war against each other so that diplomat, OB, trade route bonuses all disappear. You can also invade Brazil to slow them down by capturing their cities.

You could gift them one of your cities.

This doesn't work until the city comes out of resistance, and even then it is very minor unless you have landmarks or huge amount of wonders.

 

[wideframehoss]

Force them to war against each other so that diplomat, OB, trade route bonuses all disappear. You can also invade Brazil to slow them down by capturing their cities.

This doesn't work until the city comes out of resistance, and even then it is very minor unless you have landmarks or huge amount of wonders.

Right but it's the only way I could think of that would literally give another civ your culture.

Edit: Can you get open borders and gift them great people: musicians, artists, writers?

 

[MrRadar]

Standard Map / King level
Is there anything I can do to <...>, make it more difficult for Brazil, and give myself time to complete the spaceship?

Depends on your position, the strength of Brazil and how many turns you have left to SV and Brazil to CV. One of the options is a nuclear one . The best thing would be to nuke their capital and drop X-coms to take it with all the wonders and great works. That's the minimum. For better results carpet-nuke their jungle with Brazilwood camps. Nukes can burn down forests and jungle, you know. For best results carpet-nuke all their territory, then take it with x-coms and sell to the Dutch. Might be a bit of a distraction from the SV though. You might also look for ways to speed up your spaceship construction.

 

[ferenginar]

Brazil currently showing as 47 turns to take the Netherlands (if tourism remains unchanged). It was previously showing fewer, during carnival. My science victory is probably further away as I have a been following a direct route to thrusters, but have a number of pre-requisites to Stasis Chamber and Engine.

I haven't played this well, and can't buy GS or GE with Faith. I can expect a couple of GS to pop, but probably not soon enough to help.

I tested gifting a city to the Netherlands, it reduced the number of turns till CV. I think war might be the only route, but I not geared up for that either. I have not built the Manhattan project and have no Uranium, so nukes are out.

 

[danaphanous]

oh! I had a thought...

If netherlands has yet to turn their antiquity sites into landmarks you can do it for them with a few archaelogists. This could easily add 20+ culture to their cities which could make a big difference to the overtaking time. Unfortunately you can't buy archaelogists--only train them--so you'll need to sacrifice some other builds to do it. If you don't have the power to attack Brazil, are there any neighbors to him or enemies you can bribe to do the job for you? If you could get netherlands and Brazil fighting in particular it'll help a lot as almost all modifiers to tourism between them will vanish.

In the future if you see an AI doing so well culturally it's probably worth it to work on your culture buildings, run guild specialists, win world's fair, and build broadcast towers. It's easier to defend against the win if you are the last civ they have to overcome.

 

[ferenginar]

I thought I would test a couple of things before progressing, gifting a city to any other Civ or Brazil didn't help, it just reduced my science output. So that idea is a no go.

I have done a bit of micro management on my cities to maximise, science output, but they won't grow any more. Played one turn, nothing happened, but for some reason, although Brazil's tourism output remains unchanged, and the modifiers have not changed, it now says 90 turns. If it stays at that, I have plenty of time.