I wish there was a way to turn of culture spread al together.
It's one of the easiest things to counter in the game.
Build more culture structures.
There is. If you look on yours game options when making your game, you can set the culture spread to the slowest setting. As it is though, in a game where its on the fastest setting, its not hard to counter except in situations where it should be, and even then. As others have replied, build more media hubs and buy the culture spread research when you can. It is supposed to be a weapon in the game, so you have to learn to defend against it the same way you defend against a fleet invasion.
I wish too. Cant it be modded out somehow?
Like the scud said it's easy, but getting nuked by tec it's not so easy lol especially as advent. They should have it were the tactical structures can be made to counter.
Like offensive mode and defensive modes, maybe even give titans that ability as well.
You do realize that star bases have an ability that stops the loss of a planet through bombardment, from bothships and novilaths
Oh gawd, please stop suggesting stuff to be overnerfed to oblivion. Just put a cap ship or 2 on the affected planet and it will slow down the culture spread a lot.
And I'm just going to point out that's nowhere near as easy to set up as just throwing up a broadcast centre (or two) at your frontline worlds and locking out enemy culture, which was exactly what DFM was saying.
I wish there was a way to turn off my enemies building ships..........so annoying.
lol
I agree. Seriously, learn the game before you scream for nerfs. Culture is and most likely will be one of the weakest things in the game. Its too easily countered. Hell even the Advent loyalist's culture isn't anything to really brag about, just put a couple culture centers here or there, and you'll be fine.
Really? Pirates I kinda snicker about, but at least I sorta get why new players may be caught off guard by them. But culture?? Holy crap, build 1-2 structures, DONE. Easiest thing in the game to counter.
I've always been disappointed in how ineffective culture-spamming is.
Im seeing a lot of threads being made asking for nerfs for features which are working as they are intended.
Im not sure if there are a new crowd of gamers coming to Sins who have never played a decent RTS before but Pirates and the bloody culture system is working as it should be. The game isn't designed to be easy so you can steamroll everyone you play. The game has many different systems and many different possabilities for victory which is what breaks Sins appart from other RTS games.
Most people are used to RTS meaning - build a huge army, destroy enemy town, win.
Not here. You are able to obtain victory through a multitude of means and some of them dont require a fleet to do so. You can turtle your way through a game to hell and still come out the victor if you use one of those methods. And as with everything that can grant victory in the game, THERE IS A COUNTER!
Look through the tech trees and research whatever it is you need to get to defend yourself. If you are having issues with culture for example look into the civic tech tree and research all the culture buff/debuff techs. This will not only slow the spread of the enemies culture in your vicinity but will also give you a chance of repelling it and moving your culture into theirs.
Remember, just because its an RTS does not mean you have to build a huge fleet to win. You can be sneaky, sly and misleading to gain victory. Use the various tools at your disposal, build a decent fleet, build culture buildings, give missions to pirates and so on. You will be far more successful doing that than just speeding to a huge fleet and chasing the opponents fleet around. Afterall while you are chasing his fleet he is taking your planets via culture or whatever else...
RTS games are for the thinking mind, get out of the box that was created by mediocre RTS games such as Starcraft and get inventive!
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Yep, very well said.
Indeed. That seems to cover all the points. Bravo Emjay.
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