Old building: double culture

[Yuufo]

Hi,

A quite "technical" question: I know that, like in Civ III, when a culture-generating building is built since some amount of time, the culture production gets doubled.

Does someone know how many years (or is it turns?) are required for this? I'd like to know that to plan obelisk construction.

Thanks

Yuufo

[Rancidlunchmeat]

Interesting question. I heard somebody mention it in another thread, but it's news to me and I've never seen any documentation on it that says that old buildings generate more culture as they age.

I've never actually checked... I'll try and check today, but I've certainly never noticed any of my old obelisks or temples or cathedrals producing more culture late in the game than they did early in the game.

I'd say build Obelisks anyway.. even if I can get stonehedge, I prefer obelisks because they'll keep producing culture... while if you rely just on stonehedge, only that single city will continue to produce culture once calendar is discovered and all your "free" obelisks disappear.

[Hauptman]

yes in fact, culture DOES double, I too have noticed it, but never read or heard about when that doubling happens. Both civ3 and civ4 have that feature.

[gentle]

making it obselete ?
changing area ?

[Lul Thyme]

Culture double after 1000 years, for wonders and building except palace as far as I know (just a little testing, might have missed something(

[Lul Thyme]

(In civ 3 it was 2000 years I think)

[Solomwi]

Originally posted by Rancidlunchmeat

I'd say build Obelisks anyway.. even if I can get stonehedge, I prefer obelisks because they'll keep producing culture... while if you rely just on stonehedge, only that single city will continue to produce culture once calendar is discovered and all your "free" obelisks disappear.

Of course, the tradeoff there is that your cities get tied up building obelisks when they can be building more useful units and infrastructure. Even though they're cheap, that effect adds up enough that I'll go after Stonehenge if I have stone nearby. Once the obelisks disappear, I've got enough alternate culture sources going to not even notice it.

[trev]

I find that I like buildings that have a useful purpose, not just build culture, initially I did build Stonehenge and obelisks, but now I position my cities so that they are no more than 1 square from a food resource and a hill for mining and wait till I can build libraries etc which benefit my civ in other ways, no wasted building that way.

[Yuufo]

Obelisks are fine to make the borders progress to the fat cross.

But... built enough early on, they can also provide further border expansion!

I typically build them in my 2nd and 3rd city, between 2400 BC and 1600 BC. (I chop them). After 25 turns normal speed = 1000 years, they give +2 culture. Rushing the Library gives +4 and I get quite early to the 100 culture.

[christof]

Even though they're cheap, that effect adds up enough that I'll go after Stonehenge if I have stone nearby. Once the obelisks disappear, I've got enough alternate culture sources going to not even notice it.

I agree! I try to built Stonehenge every time...

[Urban Ranger]

I like to build the Stonehenge. It allows me to go for an early resource grab.