posted May 18, 2001 16:50

quote: Originally posted by Father Beast on 05-18-2001 04:12 PM so it seems EACH CITY must build up its own culture rating to get involved, eh?

Well, this is how I have understood it all along. Each indevidual city contributes with its own gradually growing culture-border until these merges with each other to a uniform whole.
Having it in any other way would imbalance the game; it would be way too easy to grow your culture-influence. Imagine a large AI-empire with wide culture-influence populating a big island. Then 2-3 new AI-settlers is sent away far beyond their own border-limits, to your island. Imagine then that 2-3 small & weakly developed AI-cities is founded a couple of squares outside your own culture-borders. Now, should these AI-cities automatically be granted unproportionally huge culture-influences for free - from the very start? I dont think so.

[This message has been edited by Ralf (edited May 18, 2001).]