Culture Spread Rate and Allegiance Change?

The former.

-- Retro

Hmm, I thought it was how far not fast.

No, if it were "Far", it would be "Spread Distance", not "spread rate".

-- Retro

what happens when a culture contacts an emey culture?

My friend researched all his culture upgrades, and was affecting allegiance at one of my planets.

I build a broadcast center there and it repelled the culture to the planet 1 jump away. Even though his culture was full upgraded and mine was lvl 1.

For experimenatations sake, I built another broadcast center 2 planets away, (a planet already affected by the first centers culture). Then i scuttled my center that was adjacent to his planet, expecting hte culture to start encroaching on that planet. It didn;t.


How and when does one culture start pushing against another? What determines the rate of that push? WHy isn't this documented anywhere? Or rather, where is this documented?

From what I've seen, culture divides among every phase lane that it encounters. If you have one planet backed into a corner pumping out culture, that single lane will fill up VERY quickly, as it's only dividing up by 1. It's very unlikely that you'll be able to overwhelm that planet's culture, as your nearby stations will have at least 2 lanes to divide on.

Culture seems to be "rooted" at the originating planet, with the culture lanes pushing out in every direction. The planet info shows how much culture is being pushed down each phase lane.

When culture comes up against an enemy, they fight. The two cultures push against each other based on the strength of the culture going down that phase lane. Research topics also control this, I dunno how exactly. When a single strong culture lane hits a planet with many lines, it will start to "eat" at those other lines. That single line must be stronger than the entire planet's culture to accomplish this, however. When a hostile line is consumed, your culture will start pushing down from there.

I'm not sure how culture works when it divides up on a new planet. It may treat that planet as a new "root", and spread out culture in every way, including back down the originating phase lane. I'm not sure.

Capital ships seem to work a bit differently from fighting culture. Instead of having two lines meet and compete, the capital ships just seem to "eat" away at hostile lines. I dunno if their efficiency is divided up among the phase lanes(which would put it to waste on your lines) or if it efficiently suppresses what it sees.

I don't know about the exact rate of spread. But a phase lane's culture capacity appears to be the same as its length. Long lanes will hold a lot of culture. Hub worlds with many lanes will have an enormous total of phase lane distance to hold culture.

you and your complicated "logic"

Heh.

Sins doesn't really document this stuff in detail, but you can find out these kinds of things by downloading the sins modding reference data and poking around in the files. For example,
- Media hubs produce 1 culture spread unit per interval.
- Basic carrier capital ships repel 0.3 culture spread units per interval, plus 0.05 for each of their levels. So a level 8 carrier repels culture about as fast as two level 1's.
- When spreading culture encounters a gravity well node, it slows its spread rate by 50%. So if you're two jumps away, it's only 1/4 as fast to spread. (culturePropagationPerc .5)

So
- Four level 1 capital ships in a gravity well that's one hop away from an enemy culture building, or two level five's, will completely halt culture spread. More will push existing culture back. If that culture has spread past that gravity well, two level 1's or one level 5 will push the part back that's on the other "sides" of that gravity well.
- Four media hubs in one gravity well will spread culture beyond the first gravity well intersection as fast as one media hub does right next to it.

-- Retro

Thanks for the tips retro. Which entities did you pull this from?

Thanks.