Quote Originally Posted by Sp4 View Post
Oh so basically that is to stop you from undermining the culture of an entire province by spamming temples in one town?
I think that is exactly it, yes. In fact, I used to just build 2-3 temples, crank the culture to 100, then just destroy them all and go with whatever else I needed, military, order, food etc. So yeah, made culture kind of a non-factor.

Some interesting points for anyone else reading:

If there are 4 settlements in a province, it makes some sense that just getting one wouldn't allow you to completely eliminate the native or competing cultures. In fact, the cultural resistance and pushback would be strong. So taking the full province will help with a lot of this.

The much disrespected Dignitary is now much more important, almost to the point of bringing them along behind your conquering armies.

Also more important are research paths that add faction-wide cultural conversion and also any traits on generals or other agents. In fact, it changes a lot of the game's factions' power because some of them have a natural cultural conversion. The +4 cultural conversion literally eliminates the static native tradition cultural pushback of the conquered settlement.