Tweet
Settings: Quick, Noble, Small Shuffle (Continents)
No expansion pack yet. I'm playing Huayna Capac.
Bismark has this city that he took from barbarians, and I have one city to the east with only two squares between them -- and three dye resources in that little area. I also have another city spaced normally to the south -- and from the beginning I planned this one to be one of my culture cities.
Throughout the game, Bismark used great artists to drop culture bombs on the city, maybe because he wanted to keep the dye. I did out the numbers and calculated that I'd be better off in the long run if I just had my artists join the city (edit: here I am talking about the eastern city) rather than drop them as culture bombs -- even though he got to keep all but one of the dye for a while. I used two artists this way (joining city). I'm guessing he dropped about four as culture bombs.
I'm running Representation/Free Speech/Slavery/Mercantile/Organized Religion for much of this, and have the Sistine, and six relgions that I have spread internally very thoroughly. I control about 40% of the land, all on one continent (with Bismark and Julius)
The former barbarian city was easy to track because it was the most cultured city in the game -- even higher than mine for much of it. I was struggling for a while... but I was surprised that my city was holding my directly adjacent squares much better than his was, even though he had higher culture total. I know it must have been with the help of my city to the south -- but I thought it would have been too far away to affect the culture balance so much as it did.
I'm wondering what the math is here. One possibility I thought of was that for any square in the influence of both cities the figures are just added, and then it uses the closer city to determine some sort of distance multiplier. Now, I know that can't be exactly right.
Late late in the game, I was able to take control of a square to the WEST of his city that was far enough away from all cities to build a new one. And so I did.
Eventually, even though his city is the most cultured city in the game aside from my own, I control all of the squares directly surrounding it. It defects, and I disband it. That kind of freaked me out -- DISBANDING the most cultured foreign city in the game, but really I was already working the squares around it from other cities to its east and west.
I wondered whether the fact that it was originally barbarian had anything to do with it. I don't think so, but it just seems odd that I was able to encroach on his space there even while he had the higher culture figure (but I had the assistance of the city to the south).
Anyone have any similar experiences?
And if anyone has a clue as to the math for multi-city culture influence.... I'd very much like to know that.
No expansion pack yet. I'm playing Huayna Capac.
Bismark has this city that he took from barbarians, and I have one city to the east with only two squares between them -- and three dye resources in that little area. I also have another city spaced normally to the south -- and from the beginning I planned this one to be one of my culture cities.
Throughout the game, Bismark used great artists to drop culture bombs on the city, maybe because he wanted to keep the dye. I did out the numbers and calculated that I'd be better off in the long run if I just had my artists join the city (edit: here I am talking about the eastern city) rather than drop them as culture bombs -- even though he got to keep all but one of the dye for a while. I used two artists this way (joining city). I'm guessing he dropped about four as culture bombs.
I'm running Representation/Free Speech/Slavery/Mercantile/Organized Religion for much of this, and have the Sistine, and six relgions that I have spread internally very thoroughly. I control about 40% of the land, all on one continent (with Bismark and Julius)
The former barbarian city was easy to track because it was the most cultured city in the game -- even higher than mine for much of it. I was struggling for a while... but I was surprised that my city was holding my directly adjacent squares much better than his was, even though he had higher culture total. I know it must have been with the help of my city to the south -- but I thought it would have been too far away to affect the culture balance so much as it did.
I'm wondering what the math is here. One possibility I thought of was that for any square in the influence of both cities the figures are just added, and then it uses the closer city to determine some sort of distance multiplier. Now, I know that can't be exactly right.
Late late in the game, I was able to take control of a square to the WEST of his city that was far enough away from all cities to build a new one. And so I did.
Eventually, even though his city is the most cultured city in the game aside from my own, I control all of the squares directly surrounding it. It defects, and I disband it. That kind of freaked me out -- DISBANDING the most cultured foreign city in the game, but really I was already working the squares around it from other cities to its east and west.
I wondered whether the fact that it was originally barbarian had anything to do with it. I don't think so, but it just seems odd that I was able to encroach on his space there even while he had the higher culture figure (but I had the assistance of the city to the south).
Anyone have any similar experiences?
And if anyone has a clue as to the math for multi-city culture influence.... I'd very much like to know that.
Comment