Random Culture Blotches (What the heck?!)
- Thread starter Mike47
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each tile starts with culture 0. as soon as it's within the reach of a city (this is not equal to city borders) the cultural influence of this city gets added to this tile.
example:
russian and aztec place cities near to each other, both pumping culture into tile A.
after a while russia has 800 culture in this tile, aztec has 300. so the tile belongs to russia.
then aztec declares war (no surprise) and destroys the russian town.
but within this round tile A still holds 800 russian culture. so it won't fall within aztec borders. the aztec borders will wrap around this tile.
it won't be just tile A, there will be tile B, C, D etc. and the next tile with less russian than aztec culture lies behind them. thus forming irregular culture spots.
i don't know if this is intentional as it's most likely "fixed" within one turn.
but it also applies to "contested" tiles. with largely expanded borders it could come to some weird cultural influences.
edit: another thing - you can't hold posession of "deep ocean" tiles. but of "low ocean/coast" tiles behind
example:
russian and aztec place cities near to each other, both pumping culture into tile A.
after a while russia has 800 culture in this tile, aztec has 300. so the tile belongs to russia.
then aztec declares war (no surprise) and destroys the russian town.
but within this round tile A still holds 800 russian culture. so it won't fall within aztec borders. the aztec borders will wrap around this tile.
it won't be just tile A, there will be tile B, C, D etc. and the next tile with less russian than aztec culture lies behind them. thus forming irregular culture spots.
i don't know if this is intentional as it's most likely "fixed" within one turn.
but it also applies to "contested" tiles. with largely expanded borders it could come to some weird cultural influences.
edit: another thing - you can't hold posession of "deep ocean" tiles. but of "low ocean/coast" tiles behind
Older than Dirt
King
Yep, get them all the time. It is culture from undocumented workers. We have always had them here in the US. My grandfather studdied American history using a German text in school - before WWI. His wife put out milk for the "little people." Too bad we all got melted in the pot.
BumMcFluff
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It's also possible that the single square with new culture in it is part of a new city, or an expanded culture growth from an existing city. You can't see the rest of it until you get a unit over there to explore (or re-explore) the land. Once your unit is within visual range, the single square should be joined by the rest of the culture effected area.
No, I think this phenomenon is a bug. I witnessed it after my captured city's culture expanded and took several tiles from a nearby city. A square I had controlled before actually reverted to control of the previous civ in the same turn that I gained control of three or four other tiles from that civ's closest remaining city.
It was weird, but it righted itself in a few turns.
It was weird, but it righted itself in a few turns.
