), so here's a G-minor suggestion:
Yes, you need to opponents/PA partner that don't like culture victory.
Care to explain?
Mansa is great for winning an OCC/PA/Culture game though! Trying to work out a good opponent, useless who won't attack you - been playing about with Saladin, thinking about Toku - his "Peace Military" is only 4 and any troops he brings are likely to be old and obsolete!
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It would be quite tough to have enough cultural pressure on a city to be able to spread culture to it but not impossible I reckon.
I discovered this bug many many years ago. It's been discussed--usually in the OCC space or OCC culture HoF gauntlets or if there was a GotM using OCC.
It doesn't take more than 1 culture to be 'enough' pressure to use the mission.
Ah I see, you're talking about the code the AI uses to choose a victory condition.
On lower levels you often have to settle a couple of cities in the AI's face to get it to work
But what would it help to spread your culture when you cannot capture the city in OCC? Or is culture also shared in PA, so if I spread my culture and my PA partner captures the city it would count as his?
Seems I really didn't want any anarchy. After slavery, I did no civic or religion switches until a MoM powered GA started in 50 AD. Oh well, capital wasn't that great anyway... And apparently I immediately traded Music to Mansa for machinery, which was nice I guess.
In the Darius game I picked a cap whose only purpose was to pump out immortals as fast as possible early, then somehow keep my economy afloat while the captured cities get online. Late game potential in the capital was awful. In 1 AD CS would only have netted 23 base commerce and 7 hammers per turn in cap, putting a 10-15 city empire on hold for one turn to get that gain a few turns earlier would probably have been a bad idea. In retrospect I really should have moved the capital to a better spot later on in the game. I did use elepult, although had maces available as well quite soon. 700 AD I'm looking at 31 cities, 6 trebs built but I doubt those have seen much action yet, so basically immortals, HAs, elepult and some maces to that point.Interesting that my selected HoF-settings turned out to make the game harder. Start was of course awesome, it was a HoF game after all, but packing the map with more AI was a huge mistake. First of all it lowered domination limit, and it makes the AI build more units when they cannot expand anymore. Over all, in the second game I killed 100 more units to capture 10 less cities. I ended up with only 37 cities, compared to 47 in this NC game, which meant about 1500/turn less in the end game. This was in part a result of the tough wars, a worse map layout for warfare, and me not expanding enough early on. Instead I focused on economy and Oracle->CS, which might not have been the best idea.
So while I was very far ahead in tech in the early game (had 625bc maces), 15 turns earlier to Oxford and still a few turns ahead with Apollo built and only 9 techs to go, this could not keep up with the larger empire I got in the NC game. I was done teching one turn later than in the NC game, and by then my chain of 6 golden ages was over, which screwed up my space part build calculations. So once again I failed to launch in one turn. It would have worked this time though, if I could have completed teching while still in a golden age.
Any way, lesson learned. In space games, more cities = faster finish date. It's really that simple.
