Caesar in Gaul DLC

**The Outsider** · 12-19-2013, 10:01

Do you guys have any idea how the new culture system works? Or is it just broken? Im playing as galatia on normal, i have taken out pontus , pergamon and bithnia but now i gave contant rebelions almost every turn. Pesants, slaves and old loyalists, i just dont seem to be able to assimilate anyone. This is so annoying.

**Sp4** · 12-19-2013, 11:33

I have not played it yet but I will give it a look after I managed to get the actual game working again.

**Sp4** · 12-19-2013, 13:21

Yeah I have no idea how it works. 7 of my influence vs 2 foreign and my culture going down. Hrrrrrmm? =X

Also, I can't build quarries like the patch notes said I would be able to. Is that DLC only stuff or do you have to be in a specific settlement for that to work?

**Hooahguy** · 12-19-2013, 14:39

The quarry seems to be only for minor settlements.

**Sp4** · 12-19-2013, 15:54

Yeah, I have tried that. Rome starts out with 2 minor settlements and it works in neither. Epirus starts out with 2 minor ones and it wont work in either.. Do you need some sort of resource, like lead or marble?

**Hooahguy** · 12-19-2013, 16:03

I wonder if it is just a CiG thing?

**Sp4** · 12-19-2013, 16:21

Originally Posted by Hooahguy

I wonder if it is just a CiG thing?

That is what I said! Why is everyone repeating me today?

**Mhantra** · 12-19-2013, 18:10

Originally Posted by Sp4

Yeah I have no idea how it works. 7 of my influence vs 2 foreign and my culture going down. Hrrrrrmm? =X

Also, I can't build quarries like the patch notes said I would be able to. Is that DLC only stuff or do you have to be in a specific settlement for that to work?

I am sure you have all seen the explanation stickied on the main forum page: http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...Culture-System

Basically, it seems as though your are trending down to equilibrium for the province. I look forward to checking this out more.

**Sp4** · 12-19-2013, 18:26

Oh so basically that is to stop you from undermining the culture of an entire province by spamming temples in one town?

**Mhantra** · 12-19-2013, 21:55

Originally Posted by Sp4

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.

**easytarget** · 12-21-2013, 03:01

Anyone had any luck forming confederations? I've tried repeatedly and gotten no takers, made no difference if we were on friendly terms, not friendly terms, I'm about to wipe you off the planet, we're equal militarily, not equal militarily, etc etc etc. At this point I've tried under just about every possible circumstances you can cook up, nothing.

Is this a last stage then beyond military alliance and therefore just about so hard to attain there's no point? Yet I see these being formed by the AI frequently.

W/O the ability to get some diplomacy cooperation I've fallen back to plan B, which all of these barbarians in my midst appear to understand well enough, which is a spear through the eye socket.