Lack of city flipping to me

[thomson_2001]

is it me or doesthis occur at much lower frequency now in BTS? even when pumping out the culture. is it the same for the AI as it is for us with the option of giving away cities feeling culurally different?

 

[RedRalph]

Yes definitely. I only recently noticed this... in warlords I once had ragnar lose 5, count em, 5 cities to me through culture. I think since getting BtS I've got two cities this way

 

[Colee]

Well i just realized last night that in my current game, one of the AI cities has 67% of my culture. But it still won't flip. What else would be needed? Shall I bribe the city's mayor or something?

Actually, that would have been possible in one of the earlier Civ titles, I guess.

 

[Sephlock]

Send over a spy and spread your culture, that should finish the flipping process.

 

[Colee]

Yeah, thanks, I thought about that. I will definitely try once I get home.

Good thing I can concentrate on my work while in the office, right?

 

[thomson_2001]

ive tried the spy thing a few times actually and it only changes the % of the culture slightly and still no flip.... maybe as im poisoning water also, killing off citizens and the repop is of my enemy, i dunno.

 

[Welnic]

Cities are more likely to flip the bigger they are, so dropping the population is the wrong way to go. Putting a lot of units in the city helps, the AI makes more units in BTS, so that could be a factor.