Location and type are more important, especially when you factor in the reduced decay due to your religion. City states DO count for tithe.ĭon't worry about hostility in city states too much. 15% production, cathedrals, religious community, those are the powerhouses. If you take +2 happiness, you get +1 culture from the happiness alone, and then you can absorb swings. The +2 culture from temples belief is dumb. Generally, for religion, it's important to make sure you have cathedrals and enough faith to build them fast, even if it costs you in other ways. That eclipses the hagia sophia over the long haul. It's 6 faith, 3 culture, 1 happiness, for 300 hammers. Not when you could be tech stealing gunpowder. You will always have techs to steal, so you don't want to have to put your spies in city states until MUCH later in the game. Military city states, city states with horses, mercantile and maritime city states, those can be as important or more important.ĭon't get into pissing contests with the AI over a city state. They are nice, but you intend to generate such a massive amount of your own culture they get somewhat eclipsed. To win at culture, you get great artists, then you get piety/hermitage/sistine chapel, then you build landmarks in your hermitage city, then you win.Ĭultural city states are not that important. Get granaries early, to support your specialists. That means you probably can't buy many buildings, so an instant 400 hammers is really useful. When you go culture, you will probably be trying to build libraries, temples, ampitheatres, the national college, and the oracle all at the same time. Saving legalism for ampitheatres is an excellent idea. Don't be afraid to restart a couple times until you have enough hills in your capital: you need production. A cultural city state with horses is AMAZING in the early game.Ĭultural victories are the hardest win condition in the game.
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