Culture and the Advent

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It's just come to my attention that the culture for an Advent player (me) is a weapon? I'd love some elaboration on how I can use said culture to take down enemies.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
The Advent have a really powerful culture because that culture is all pervasive in their society. If you think about the lore the TEC are a loose (now more centralised) coalition of planets that all had very independent culture. Independent to the point that they wouldn't even form a cohesive defence until the Vasari reached their core worlds. The Vasari are more interested in oppressing their worlds and sapping out resources than spreading an ideology but for the advent their "unity" is everything.

If you build plenty of temples of communion and research the advent's tech that improves the power of their culture (under the psitech option) you can effectivly spread your culture out and onto the planets of your opponents. If you overwhelm a world with enough culture there is a chance it will rebel so you can use the Advent's culture to conquer enemy peripheral worlds rather quickly.

Personally as an advent player I prefer to use culture to fortify my own worlds and perhaps try and take out an enemy colony if I have some spare resources but I prefer to invest most of my resources on building one of their mega high tech scary phsychic fleets of doom!! :D 
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
It seems to have some benefits, but still they are unknown to most players. I took over an entire system except for the AI's homeworld, had culture centers on every planet in the rest of the game, and simultaneously fired my 5 culture cannons at him. His planet registered 290% allegiance, in green so I think it was in my favor, but the planet did not flip.

The planet-sight-if-culture-spreads-there is nice, and I think there are a few other utility culture techs in the high levels, but the neutralizing of planets is still a mystery to me as I have yet to see it work.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
when a planet gets to 0% allegiance it becomes neutral and this can take quite some time, since theres a cap of how fast the allegiance goes down.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Culture + Deliverance Engine = 85% shield mitigation
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I always upgrade sheilds to the max as on of the first military upgrades I do...The last upgrade doing something about shield mitigation...
But what IS mitigation? How does it improve/deprove mitigation

Also, would It be fair by saying that Advent's specialty, (Other then Culture) is their shields?
Because every battle I have with my mate, I always end up with the best shields at max upgrade vs his max upgraded shields