Lightning Cultural Victory

[jrc]

So, I just won a game by 'lightning cultural victory'... first time I've seen that.

I didn't find anything in the pedia about it, but remembered something in the custom settings, and checked it out after the game.

Apparently there are two faster types of victory: quick and lightning (for domination and religious as well). As far as I can recall I never triggered these before, and didn't intentionally click the lightning mode.

Anyways, I was curious just how much 'quick' and 'lightning' shortens the victory conditions? It could be nice to avoid the 20+ hour games at times, but I'd like to know which setting suits me the best so I "know the rules". This time I had just gathered up my invincible army of armageddon and was about to unleash hell on my opponents... just to find they were dazzled by the culture of my empire and submitted. Kind of anticlimax, hehe .

 

[Monkeyfinger]

Quick religious: 60% spread needed
Lightning religious: 40% spread needed

Quick domination: ~45% landmass needed
Lightning domination: ~30% landmass needed

Quick cultural: 4 influential cities needed
Lightning cultural: 5 refined cities needed

Needless to say, lightning religious + quick domination + normal cultural = best way to go. Well, on a huge map lightning dom could be attractive I guess. Maybe.

 

[Valkrionn]

So, I just won a game by 'lightning cultural victory'... first time I've seen that.

I didn't find anything in the pedia about it, but remembered something in the custom settings, and checked it out after the game.

Apparently there are two faster types of victory: quick and lightning (for domination and religious as well). As far as I can recall I never triggered these before, and didn't intentionally click the lightning mode.

Anyways, I was curious just how much 'quick' and 'lightning' shortens the victory conditions? It could be nice to avoid the 20+ hour games at times, but I'd like to know which setting suits me the best so I "know the rules". This time I had just gathered up my invincible army of armageddon and was about to unleash hell on my opponents... just to find they were dazzled by the culture of my empire and submitted. Kind of anticlimax, hehe .

I'm honestly not entirely sure; They come from FF, and the Lightning variants have been removed from 1.3. Quick is still in.

 

[Monkeyfinger]

If either of you want to mess with the numbers they're in

C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Mods\Rise from Erebus\Assets\XML\Gameinfo\CIV4VictoryInfo.xml

 

[Valkrionn]

If either of you want to mess with the numbers they're in

C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Mods\Rise from Erebus\Assets\XML\Gameinfo\CIV4VictoryInfo.xml

I know where they are, just didn't know them off the top of my head.

 

[jrc]

Awesome, thanks!

 

[Bitwise]

I frequently play with quick domination (if playing a huge map) and quick religious. Quick Cultural I play with from time to time, but I've always seen the cultural victory as an alternative to time victory since I'll almost always get it before time is up.