culture toggle option

from Sins Forums

can they make a update that gives you the option to trun off culture takovers in the lobby when your seting up a game? i find it anoying that when i wana play defensive and hold out and AI or other players will take over my planet by culture. so can the people of stardock PLEASE make some toggle option in the lobby for the host to turn that off.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Culture is just a part of the game.  You can build your own culture centers to beat back or at least to hold enemy culture at bay if you need to.  If the opposition has several planets that are right next to your home terran and they're culture bombing you from it then you're probably in very bad shape anyway.  The best way to prevent something like that might be to keep them from taking planets near your terran in the first place and perhaps to take their planets down instead.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Hmmm... if you are suffering from culture fail, join the Unity and become an Advent (they have culture like the TEC has MB and the Vasari have Kostura)

 

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

That would set Advent back at a disadvantage, and would remove an important aspect of economy in the game. Bad idea.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Deceiver_0, reply 3
That would set Advent back at a disadvantage, and would remove an important aspect of economy in the game. Bad idea.
End of Deceiver_0's quote

i have to agree, and i have to say ive never lost a planet to culture except by accident (i left it undefended, un-upgraded and very close to enemy territory because i got distracted, but then again it was only an asteroid)

usually if you put a culture center or two on frontline or central (i.e. linked by alot of phase lanes) planets, then you should be alright

remember, capital ships also repel culture (and i think the Advent Starbase does also) so if you want to turtle, then station a few caps on your frontline worlds

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I tend to agree that culture is part of the game, and at any rate a cultural takeover is extremely rare and usually happens either when you're in such a bad position you're going to lose anyways or if you've got an outpost in the middle of enemy territorty.

In any case, there wouldn't be a huge difference if cultural takeover was removed from the game.  Your planet's loyalty would still be reduced to 0, causing all its income to disappear.  You'd still be able to build stuff there, I guess, but you'd still get no income from it.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Darvin3, reply 5
I tend to agree that culture is part of the game, and at any rate a cultural takeover is extremely rare and usually happens either when you're in such a bad position you're going to lose anyways or if you've got an outpost in the middle of enemy territorty.

In any case, there wouldn't be a huge difference if cultural takeover was removed from the game.  Your planet's loyalty would still be reduced to 0, causing all its income to disappear.  You'd still be able to build stuff there, I guess, but you'd still get no income from it.
End of Darvin3's quote

 

seems to me that the loyalty only dorps because of culture. so if there was a toggle option i dont think it would go to zero. but yea. yall are right culture is part of the game and it may hurt the advent to do this so nevermind with the idea.(wasnt thinking about the fact that the advent practicaly use culture as a weapon)

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

option to trun off culture takovers
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You said turn of cultural takeovers, you said nothing about turning off culture altogether.  Interpreting you literally, your game setting would still cause loyalty to decrease to 0, but you just wouldn't lose control of the planet.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Semantics. It would still adversely effect Advent cultural warfare.