rt. city culture and tile culture are two different things.
Thank you, that's an excellent explanation. Fits perfectly with what happened in the game, including the city tile itself. It was roughly 50/50 prior to the gift (there was a major culture battle), and everything just went *poof*Fippy is right.
All the plot(tile) culture in the 1st ring (8 tiles) of the gifted city vanishes.
In contrast, the civ receiving the city gets +1 plot culture on the 8 tiles around the city, so they get control unless a 3rd civ has a claim on the tiles.
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/plot-culture-mechanics.633767/#post-15392025
It makes gifting cities on the border a real headache because it can take many, many turns to get back control of the tiles in the inner ring peacefully.
The spy bonuses in the gifted city were kept because it is based on city culture.
**Edit**
The plot culture on the city tile itself is also lost.
Been re-reading this GM-137 thread recently. Both fun and frustrating to kinda re-live the whole thing, as majestic as the gauntlet was. Seraiel and I posted... a lot.Also, I finally discovered something that has been bugging me.
You know how sometimes you steal a worker with Aggressive AI and sometimes the AI won't talk peace no matter what you do?
It turns out that it is due to a Holy City!
I stole a worker from Peter in my latest game and after a few turns I got a cease fire by threatening 1 city (warrior within 2 tiles).
Then 20 turns later after he founded Buddhism, I stole another worker.
A few turns went by, then I got within 2 tiles of one of his cities and he would not sign Cease Fire.
So I threatened 2 cities.
Still, no cease fire.
Then I killed a scout and got a Cease Fire.
So if you are stealing workers, avoid the civs that found a religion, unless you can capture 2 workers + threaten 2 cities, or capture 1 worker + threaten 3 cities.
Not even. I'm so unlucky.Any 10-gems start yet?
5 gems, triple food, BFC horse and gold elsewhere. That'll do!My favorite capital so far:
Spoiler :
Only room for three cities on landmass, maybe a fourth later. You can see gold and pig in the north, that spot also has fish and clams, so at least they're good cities.
WHOA!
9 gems and corn, a new record