Culture Resist Mechanics

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Hey guys, I'm in the midst of creating several new factions for a mod that I'm making.  I wanted to make one of them have a bit of a unique culture mechanic.  Rather than project culture that competes with enemy culture, with the strongest prevailing and pushing back the other, the idea was to make a faction whose culture projection is actually very weak, and therefore incapable of pushing back the stronger culture of every other race, but that had a ridiculously high culture resistance value, in such a way that nobody could really push theirs back either.  My question, therefore, is this-if I was to make a faction whose culture spread rate was, say, 5, but whose culture resistance was 90-100%, would this create a situation where my culture, being so weak, would be unable to spread into enemy territory, where, say an advent with a total spread of 60 was lurking, but due to my extreme culture resistance, their 60 could not push into my territory either?  Or, would this cause a situation where my culture would slowly, inexorably advance due to their inability to push it back?

 

In short, my hope is to make a culture situation where the faction's territory is always cultured, but once leaving their territory, it basically stops or slows incredibly, so that enemy planets never really fall to their culture, but they never really suffer from enemy culture either.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

There's a culture decay rate which controls how quickly culture spread tapers off per planet; adding a racial trait ("level zero" or starting value has the bonuses, e.g. you don't need to research it to get the bonuses; see the Enhanced 4X mod for this, though I'm sure there are other possible implementations) and culture spread rate increases the rate at which it, well, spreads.  Note that the culture resistance IIRC only affects how slowly the enemy's culture penetrates; so if I'm not mistaken, given enough time, without any friendly culture spread an enemy culture would still, slowly, fill the well.

 

You could also buff their cap. ship culture repel rate, which would dispel hostile culture in neutral/friendly grav wells; in effect serving as a mobile planet in this regard.  This might allow them to, say, bomb an enemy planet to rubble (make them strong at bombing, perhaps, or give them a Kostura type workaround?) then their cap. ships would automatically start cleansing the enemy's culture.

I'd give them an insanely high culture resist trait, and a massive penalty to culture decay rate as a minimum.  I'd also recommend that you buff their cap. ship culture effect and ensure that they can get culture up and running relatively easily, perhaps even through trade ships or something unorthodox/out there if possible.

Alternatively, if you're willing to mod the global constants, you could allow cap. ship culture repulsion to work in hostile gravity wells as well (this would benefit the other races, too) so a massive culture repellant bonus would allow an assault force (or even one "passing through") to start erasing culture even without exterminating the planet... i.e. if the player hasn't placed culture centers on most worlds, then I'd suspect the culture repulsion would make a mark even in a hostile grav well.  It could essentially make a player consider building more culture centers to prevent raiders from simply erasing it all.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I would suggest giving this race's planets a very, very small culture production at every planet (see Advent Loyalist's tech). This way, with their high culture resistance, the enemy won't be able to break through due to the minute amount of spread from the race's planets, which, I believe, should balance out the incoming culture in tandem with the culture resistance rate.

 

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