Preventing Culture Flipping in High Corruption Environments

[Theseus]

I agree with Solomonwi... in the late game, where Tanks and MA can be used to generate an absurd number of MGLs.

New term: Palace Hopping.

"You can never be too thin, too rich, or have enough MGLs."

[vmxa1]

I agree with #2 and #3, but not so sure about #1. I remember Karen Carpenter.

[Mad Bomber]

Originally posted by Arrian
The keys to avoiding culture flips:

1) Remove "culture pressure" from the city in question. This means pushing back the other civ's borders via capturing or razing nearby cities. So if you go capture a civ's capital (high flip risk), make sure you get the surrounding ones as a buffer too. And of course rush a temple or library.

2) Starve (or poprush) to 1pop, then let it repopulate.

3) Have solid civ-wide culture yourself

Or better yet, wipe out the civ you took the city from.

HINT: if you face an opponent with a 1-tile island city (untouchable until marines), stop before you make that their last city, and demand it for peace. 20 turns later, wipe out the city you let them keep.

-Arrian

This is the prefered method, although wiping out the civilization you captured the city from does not entirely eliminate the possibliity of a flip. In C3C (and 1.22 patch) flips occur much less frequently due to the changes in the culture flip calculation. In addition to the above methods, having significant numbers of troops (50+) in the city significantly reduces the chance of a flip.