AU 504 Glory of Culture DAR 5 - 50K Culture

[Aqualung71]

....and the demographics (note the misleading Literacy category showing we are only 4th, because of our huge size!):

[Aqualung71]

....and a bit of culture:

[Aqualung71]

...and just for kicks, the cheerful Hiawatha telling Ravi that he has just saved our people

[Mountain Sage]

My shortest DAR:

Look to DAR 4 for the past and to DAR 6 for the future...

[-SafaN-]

Start in 1120 AD
just builded copernicus in bejing (forbidden palace)

17674 Culture

objectives:
ICS with rushing culture buildings, especially in the tundra
prevent the generation of killer AI on other continent
force a golden age (probably with completion smith's)
reform military to 1 defender/city and a attack force of 12 units

1130 AD
Arabs started a war with Iroquois

1190 AD
Iroquois completed Knights Templar

1200 AD
my culture: 20681
iroquois culture: 10389

1230 AD
Germans and Iroquois in alliance against arabs
we gifted gunpowder to arabs *evil grin*

1240 AD
we completed shakespeare

1300 AD
our culture: 27415
iroquois culture 12352

1315 AD
Industrial age, no more tech in 4 turns :/

1345 AD
Smith completed: Golden age!

1350 AD
Steampower! All workers go railroading
Industrialization in 4
Arabs lost quite a couple of cities, if they lose salpeter i will gift them

our culture: 32664
iroquois culture: 13738

1370 AD
completed magelhaan and newton

1390 AD
completed Bach

1400 AD
our culture: 38535
iroquois: 15268

1410 AD
a scientific leader for electicity?
Like someone already said, SGL makes easier games easier and hard games harder ...

1435 AD
ToE builded with leader, Now Starting hoover. Other civilization haven't entered industrial ages yet
This means i will win anyways, its just a matter of time
Wasn't the AU mod supposed to make the game more challenging?

1485 AD
our culture: 50357
german culture: 18448

Seems like germany has bypassed the iroquois!
arabs are almost eliminated, in war with iroquois and ottomans
germany has still 5 techs to do from middle ages.

[freud24]

Too many people!!

I'm not sure the exact year I hit 50k because I got so sucked into the game that I didn't stop to think Probably in the mid 1300's maybe?

What I've done is fill my continent jam pack full of cities. My initial build pattern was CxxxCxxxC so now I am filling in so it is CxCxC. I am then rushing temples, then libraries, etc. so that my culture grows fast. The only problem I've run into is population!! I'm too big!! At 1300 A.D. my percent of the world population was 66%. I guess i shouldn't have killed all those damn persians or built so many cities. What i've done is converted all my people in my crappy cities to Scientists and Tax Collectors, starving the cities to lose population. Hope I don't hit 67 and lose because i won without a culture victory.

The pic is from 1100's when i finished taking my continent.

[Risa]

Wow, ICS to madness!

It doesn't matter even if you'd got 99% population, as long as your land mass is lower than 66% of the world.

[Aqualung71]

And I thought my own ICS was over the top

[Theseus]

Instead of the current "Vote or Die" campaign here in the USA, it's "Build a Library and Starve"!!

Nice ICS, freud. You nailed this one!

[nbarclay]

Just getting 66% of the world's population won't trigger domination. You would also need 66% of the world's land. (And the number does seem to be 66% rather than 67%.)