How can you decide where your next culture expansion will go?

[Corran]

The title basically says it all.

In the city screen I can see one hex/tile with a purple border and when I reach enough culture that tile will get added to my city.

But what if I want another tile instead? Is there anyway to move that purple thing?

The pdf manual and the civopedia have not been any help...

[Hauldren Collider]

I don't know the answer, but anyone want to make a bet about whether it involves paying extra money to Firaxis?

[pdxsean]

But what if I want another tile instead? Is there anyway to move that purple thing?

You can always buy it. They're not too expensive, usually 100-150 gold.

[OzzyKP]

Yea, I tried to do this as well, but couldn't figure it out. It'd be very nice to be able to assign the next tile to expand to.

[Ming]

I don't know the answer, but anyone want to make a bet about whether it involves paying extra money to Firaxis?

Sure... I'll take that bet.

[Methos]

I haven't found a way, but I have noted that the game prioritizes resources. Note, this is based on just the OCC game I played, so my experience is limited.

[Krill]

You don;t get to choose for free. You have to pay money.

So much for strategy.

[·Imhotep·]

I think that the next culture expansion goes on one of the tiles that a marked with a pink hexagon in the city screen.

[Snotty]

The culture seems to go where it wants, which is mainly resources in the area around your city. I can understand how that is frustrating for us who are used to micromanaging our city screen. If we want to have optimal growth then we have to pay the gold at to expense of other gold using strategies

[dregor]

Seems to prioritize resources, then go for the more "valuable" tiles like rivers.

[me_irate]

It also doesn't like taking hill tiles, which can be annoying if you want production. Its doubly annoying since they are also usually a lot more expensive than flat tiles. I guess they want to make it harder to get good production tiles.

[Nikolai]

The tile aquisition AI prioritize the tiles, and mostly do a good job IMHO. If you want to decide how it expands, you need to pay up and buy the tiles yourself.

[jobe]

Nik is right that the AI does a decent job of chosing resource wise, not necessary tile wise.

It takes away options for MP though where you might wanna pick different

[yin26]

Yeah, I see nothing to lose by letting the player choose. Where is the exploit? And if you hate the micro, make it an option for the AI to pick new tiles. That's the way I would do it...

[MxM]

Yeah, I see nothing to lose by letting the player choose. Where is the exploit? And if you hate the micro, make it an option for the AI to pick new tiles. That's the way I would do it...

It would greatly reduce the value of ability to buy hexes. Civ V is all about making interesting choices = you go what city wants or you spend money and buy what you want. I think people just want the easy options in...