Legendary culture level (bts)

[Mario W]

Why is Legendary culture level 100k in my games? Shouldn't it be 50k? Speed is standard, size is standard, bts 3.17.
I tried to find the Civ4CultureLevelInfo file, but it is not in the bts folders, only in the vanilla one. And it says 50k.

 

[mycophobia]

Looks like you have No Espionage on, which clumsily just doubles the culture thresholds making all border pops take ages and ages.

 

[Mario W]

I actually play without spying.What file should I fix to avoid this doubling?

 

[drewisfat]

The problem with no espionage is it affects the cultural outputs of buildings too, which negatively affects game balance. I don't see any reason to play with that setting. Just don't use espionage if you don't want to and it'll mostly just hurt the AI a bit.

 

[mycophobia]

there is also this mod, if you're not using other mods:

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End of Espionage Mod

Oct 28, 2009

End of Espionage Mod

• PieceOfMind
• Civ4 - Mod Components

 

[Mario W]

The problem with no espionage is it affects the cultural outputs of buildings too, which negatively affects game balance. I don't see any reason to play with that setting. Just don't use espionage if you don't want to and it'll mostly just hurt the AI a bit.

What do you mean not to use espionage? Playing on immortal is hard enough without giving the AI espionage and not using it yourself (I don't like espionage because it's extra micromanagement that slows down the game.)

And I don't think it affects the balance much, courts only produce 2 cultures and multipliers do not affect this value (cathedrals, hermitage or free of speech).
Late spy buildings give +4, +8 culture, but by that time it does not matter so much.

 

[drewisfat]

Espionage makes the AI worse, not better. Most people just assign weighting to one AI to passively gain info about what they're teching. What micro?