setting culture expand rate

[bob the builder]

i made my epic speed to take 8 times longer then the normal but keept the biulding and recruiting kind of stuff on the normal speed to make it stay fun.
now i never get that "yay my knights are ready, crap... they are already obsolete" feeling.

but not sure if i should keep the culture on normal so you can biuld resource improvments in a normal way or if i should x8 it to make it balanced so no one gets culture victory to early, any sugestions?

and does some body know what does the 40 years a turn in beggining and 5 years a turn in the end thing actualy balance? mine 1210 turns are all on 5 years and it works fine such far (4000-2700BC).

 

[DSChapin]

but not sure if i should keep the culture on normal so you can biuld resource improvments in a normal way or if i should x8 it to make it balanced so no one gets culture victory to early, any sugestions?

I find that the best solution is to keep the first culture expansion the same, then increase the second, increase the third more, and so on. In fact, I'd suggest making legendary more than 8x the current level, since culture piles up in the later turns.