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Ethelred
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Originally posted by Sovereign
How do you do the culture "flipping" thing? I've had cities with 100 - 1000 culture or more next to an enemy city with 0 - 50 culture, for like 100 turns and no flipping.
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Any city with full control of all 21 of its tiles is very unlikely to flip. That is why I sometimes force the issue by planting a city as close as I can. Most likely you are not creating the border overlaps that are needed to generate culture flips.
Build RIGHT next to the city you didn't like being plopped down near your borders. Not near it. As close as if possible. Build a temple. Rush it if you can. Build a library. The AI rarely pushes culture as a weapon. Any other cities that have borders with the target must also have their culture pushed. Then wait.
It won't always work but it often does. Early in the game you can even capture a city near their capital. If the AI starts pumping out culture than the borders may stiffen up so it works best against cultures without religion or science. If you are warmongering this is a waste of effort. Just take the bloody thing. However when I play a builder game I can half a dozen or more cities that way on a standard map. Sooner or later the AI will change its government and when they are in anarchy the chance of flipping goes up. Unless I am relgious civ I only make ONE government change. I go from Despot to Republic and stick with it.
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Arrian
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Kneel before Grog!
Jul 2001
time: 00:22
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I love the Library, even though I often can do without it.
I usually warmonger, on Monarch level (for the most part). I like building it to prevent the AI from getting it, and depending on how my ancient wars have gone and how the rest of the world shapes up, I may even get some tech out of it. Sometimes, if I'm on a largish continent with several AIs, getting the library can result in a nice little tech rush that catches me up (while I've been hoarding cash and building my military). Other times, I am even in tech and can shut off science totally and use my boosted income to rushbuy improvements and such. All in all, I think it's a pretty useful Wonder.
There is a thread on this in the strat forum, btw... pretty much the same question, too.
-Arrian
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Lord Merciless
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Great Library is a must at Deity level. Due to AI's production and research bonus, you need a much bigger empire than theirs to stay ahead. However, since the AI civs start out with hell lot more units(including a Settler) than you, they are guaranteed to grow faster than you. In addition, AI civs do lots of "Tech-Whoring" at Deity level, which means you will suddenly be 5 or more techs behind them. The common solution to this dilemma is warmongering: new cities, more workers, blackmailed techs, and most importantly, Great Leaders.
But still, there will be civs outside your reach. You can't blackmail them for techs, and you can't pay their exorbitant prices either. The three early Feudal Age Wonders(Sun Tzu's, Sistine Chapel, and Leo's Workshop) are very important in helping you to win the game. Imagining a situation where you have a Great Leader, but don't have the Techs to built any of them. If you just had the Great Library, things wouldn't be nearly as bad as now.
Finally, I built GLs in all of my last 2 games at Deity level. Everytime I got like around 12 Techs out of it.
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kimmygibler
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The GL becomes essential on deity level. I don't bother with it on monarch. But I find the best way to do well on deity is to pre-build with the pyramids and rush to get literature. Then turn off science and focus on military and grab a few cities. Then hopefully go back into science mode by the time you discover education from the GL. I agree with Merciless, Gl is a must a deity level.
(As far a culture flipping goes I remember someone from Firaxis saying that distance capital was a huge factor as well. If you really want a city to flip, move your capital to the closest possible city. This has worked for me a few times)
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Zarg
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on monarch or lower level GL is usually a waste of production. on emperor it has been a great help for me, but maybe not really necessary to win the game. on deity i didn't try, but i guess it's absolutely necessary to keep up with the ai, fo the great starting advantage he has.
ZARG
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Traelin
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Miami, FL, US
Nov 2001
time: 00:22
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I'm a huge warmongerer (usually I'm at war every year up to Demo), so I really like to dedicate my shields to military. I play Emperor and find I have minimal problems with keeping up in Tech, because I usually attack advanced civs, grab some of their cities, and sue for peace on the condition of receiving techs. In fact I never build a GW until Sistine is available.
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Dutch
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Norway
Aug 1999
time: 06:22
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I hear you, skywalker. In fact, Wonders of the World have been gradually degraded from Civ I through Civ III.
SETI, for instance; in Civ I it added 50 pst to the research of your entire civilization; in Civ II it did the same, only now it was also possible to build research labs in every city and achieve the same effect, albeit in a more complicated way; in Civ III this wonder just adds 50 pst to the research in the city that builds it (cumulative with other bonuses, thank God, but ...)
As for Leo's Workshop - it didn't exist in Civ I, but in Civ II it was a huge advantage. In Civ III it's just saving you some money.
These changes are probably implemented due to game balance issues, and I'm not actually complaining all that much. But on the whole, wonders aren't all that wonderful any more. (And don't get me started on Michela... err, Sistine Chapel; that wonder has really lost some weight.) 
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Traelin
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Miami, FL, US
Nov 2001
time: 00:22
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Yeah a lotta the Wonders got downgraded, but I'm not complaining because it was probably necessary for balance and what-not. Maybe I'm getting confused between Civ I and II (God, it's been awhile since I played either), but didn't Michaelangelo/Sistine get cancelled out by Communism? I could be wrong...
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Sovereign
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Hmm..
I build the Great Library to deny the enemy tech's, but at Reagent and above I always lose the race for Great Library.
The hardest level I've ever tried is Reagent. I tried Monarch and Emperor, but I quit FAST, because of early riots. Its a real pain in the ass, when I have some nice production plans all set up, then WHAM! Riots.
I'm thinking of using the Editor to modify the rules a bit. Make it so that ALL difficulty levels have the same riot and corruption levels as Chieftain. Then that way, I can manage riots and still have a hard AI to contend with.
About the culture flipping thing. I build my cities outwards from my capital. I usually play on huge maps, and when I do invade enemys, I take over a few of their cities at first. Then build culture stuff.
But, get this. I capture, say, a 10 turn old city, then build a couple others near the 2nd enemy city that is, say, 20 turns old. In 10 turns or more, my 2, 3, 4, 5 new cities along with the enemy city have temples. In 100 turns, my cities next to enemy territory would have considerable culture, probably in the 100 - 1000 range.
Then the enemy city, still 10 turns older than the one I captured, after 100 turns, doesn't flip. Even under pressure from 3 other cities nearby with moderate culture.
The enemy city usually is size 12 or below. Never past 13, then again, I'm 2 ages ahead of the enemy, with me having hospitals and none for them.
I guess I'll never have that "mythical" culture flipping. It has never happened, both ways. My cities never flip over, nor the enemy flip over to me.
Besides, this Coracle dude seems like he HATES culture a lot. I might sell him a copy of my Civ 3 program, for a price. 
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Dutch
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Norway
Aug 1999
time: 06:22
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Traelin, in Civ II, cathedrals made four unhappy people content at first. With the invention of Communism this was reduced to three. So Michelangelo's Chapel, equaling one cathedral per city, would have a reduced effect, but it was not made obsolete. Seems like fewer wonders are made obsolete in Civ III ...
Can't remember how this worked in Civ I, though. Haven't played that game since 1996.
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28-08-2002 05:36
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Actually on deity I don't seem to be able to build Wonders at all. I usually start, but someone else gets there first and by that time all other wonders are already. So I end up with a lot of shields and having to put them in a granary.... 
So lately I don't start them anymore till I have the tech available for several Wonders.
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