what we exactly got instead of ,,fewer cities'' modifier for tourism game? just before few minutes,i have lost my Brazil peacefull game to Harald, who has completed spaceship and only one i needed to influence was Bismarck. TBH, todays cultural games(at least peacefull one) are bothering. There are simply too many negative and huge modifiers for late game. I could live with travel ban, but another -50% for diferent ideology and into adition Cold war, so no boost from TR are impossible to play with. I couldnt affect him even with non stop bombardment of musicians. I have had rising influence even to harald, who in the end builded great firewall. Into adition nowdays, when AI DoW you just because you ugly look at them( which i like much more than before), that is very hard even finish some trade routes to gain tourism bomb. And some side note, i think late game techs deserve cost increase. Untill atomic era it takes even days(real ones), late game is a matter of few hours. There is simply too much yields. I mean, it looks good to have some yields from spies etc etc, but those techs are researched in 6 turns max.
edit: i have played this game under 9/7 version, so that modifier for less cities was still there. i can't imagine even touch a victory condition w/o it.