How does look like cultural victory?

[Kime11]

I can see that everyone mention cultural victory as a regular thing,but I have never won or lose with it,although I once had almost all great wonders and the biggest territory (and the best territory)?What it needs to win by cultural.

I've played with religious tribe for the first time and I thing it is great (better than with scientific whitch I liked before),because of easier building of temples and cathedrals which bring both culture and happiness...Before I've played with Russia,know with Celts...

 

[bluebox]

celts are nice, indeed. even nicer in c3c with agricultural, although religious trait is not so powerful anymore.
now on to your question:
there are 2 types of cultural victory: 100.000 points overall in your whole empire (check current points on F5 screen). this one's called '100k'. it is possible in lower difficulty levels before 2050ad if you concentrate on culture from early on.
the other one needs 20.000 points in a single city. this one's quite difficult. you need all high culture wonders, all cultural city improvements and you need them early, so cultural points can accumulate before 2050ad (historiograpfic victory). this one's called '20k'.
get some advice in the strategy section for 20k victory.

 

[Kime11]

I've been close then;i had almost 90k when the bug appeared and interrupted me (it was 195X year,I believe).I'm sorry now for uninstaling PTW and go back to main game (need to get C3C),so cannot see how close was I for 20k...thanx anyway,I see now that I should go for manual,I was lazy (like usual (....)

 

[lbhhh]

Also note that the value for the 100k victory depends on map size, it can be up to 160k on a huge map. In addition you need more than twice the culture of your closest rival.

 

[Kime11]

Anyway ,when you get some others city,what happens with that civilization cultural points (that made city you captured),are these points erased,or not??

 

[SesnOfWthr]

Well, I'm not sure what you're asking, so I'll give you two answers:

As far as the other civ's total culture, they retain all accumulated culture regardless of what happens. Therefore, if you reduce the civ to one city, it is possible for them to still have tens of thousands of culture points as a whole, but only a few thousand (or less) in the one city.

I you are asking about the city itself losing the culture, then yes it does, in a sense. The city, when taken over, loses any benefits of accumulated culture (ie bigger borders), but the city "remembers" the culture and this is one of the factors that influences culture flip risk.

Hope that helps.

 

[Turner]

And if the city goes back to the original civ, for whatever reason, it gets that culture back. Well, that's not accurate. What I mean is when the city rebuilds it's culture producing buildings and accumulating culture, it does it from the point at which it lost it. So if Leeds has 456 culture, and gets captured, it doesn't give it's culture to the capturing city. But should the English recapture the city, it will still have 456 culture. And when it starts producing culture again, it starts at 456.

In C3C, you can set it up in the editor for the capturing civ to retain any culture previously produced.