3 questions: take your pick

[MyOlde]

1. How can you defend against airships? Is there some way to shoot them down?

2. Is there a way to increase an individual city's cultural output beyond the overall setting? Or do you have to set the city to culture?

3. I invaded Willem to my east and on the other side of him is Hammurabi. I reduced Willem to two cities and went searching to see if I could get him to become my Vassal. I liked the idea of keeping him as a buffer between me and Hammurabi. But on the trading screen there was no sign of a Vassal choice. Just a straight Peace Treaty. I asked for two techs from him to agree to peace and he told me to blow it. So I just wiped him out entirely, although I didn't really want to.

[snoopy369]

1. Not without your own flying craft (or SAM Infantry, etc.)

2. The commerce->Culture rate is fixed globally. You can of course increase its individual output in many ways - build culture, use artist specialists, etc.

3. You probably don't have the tech for vassalizing (Feudalism, I think?), or it was turned off as an option. Alternately, it's possible he was already a vassal of someone else, or some other vassal-related situation prevented it as being possible.

[Theben]

1. Yes, with fighters and jet fighters.

2. You can set the city to build culture, build lots of cultural buildings, culture bomb with a Great Artist, or use lots of artist specialists (in Caste system, for example).

3. Did you have feudalism?

[alva]

3. You might have pushed him to far, to the point where he would rather "quit" than surrender ( as a human would do, at least, I would).

[snoopy369]

No, it would still show up (just redded out).

[alva]

Ack, missed that part in the OP, my bad.

[MyOlde]

Thanks for your answers. I think you've got it: I didn't get Feudalism. As to the Airships, they come so much earlier than Flight. Unless I've made a beeline, I guess. Thanks for the culture answer; for some reason I thought there was an individual city slider but now I know.

Thanks again.

[Vampgelus]

Originally posted by MyOlde As to the Airships, they come so much earlier than Flight. Unless I've made a beeline, I guess.

2 techs earlier... not to hard to get IMHO. The extra commerce-route frome the airport will boost your economy, so if there is no emergency for biology, it may be worth it.