How does culture spread?

**Poppis** · September 15, 2014, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Ballpoint202

EBII seems to use the "alternate" piety system from the Britannia Kingdoms campaign, as described here. In the Britannia campaign, M2TW's "piety" became "management" and "religion" became "culture".

In EBII, "management" became "influence", but it seems to work the same. That is, a city governor's influence increases the faction's culture in a city (the greater the influence, the faster the change) without causing additional unrest from other factions present in the city; and it increases income, first by decreasing corruption, then by adding administrative income.

Presumably, culture is also influenced by the cultures of neighboring provinces, as described here.

Thanks for those links. Interesting read.

**DenniZ** · September 15, 2014, 11:40 AM

Can anyone tell me how to use the colonists as Hellenon. I've been getting notified by my advisor since turn 1 but I dont know how to use them....

**Zeleny drak** · September 15, 2014, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by DenniZ

Can anyone tell me how to use the colonists as Hellenon. I've been getting notified by my advisor since turn 1 but I don't know how to use them....

Go through all your cities and check if a new building is available. It should be the last in the list and be called something like military settlers and have in the description some text regarding macedonian settlers. Check also in the buildings report what are the requirements for Greek colonies (as you may need to upgrade the farms, for example)

**Legion_IX** · September 17, 2014, 11:56 AM

Probably a stupid question, but where can I see the actual growth rate of my culture within the city? In the city details window, if I understand it correctly, only the actual difference between your culture and other cultures is showed.

**QuintusSertorius** · September 17, 2014, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by Legion_IX

Probably a stupid question, but where can I see the actual growth rate of my culture within the city? In the city details window, if I understand it correctly, only the actual difference between your culture and other cultures is showed.

You can't see the rate anywhere, I know from regularly having a look at the culture mix on the settlement summary screen.

**Legion_IX** · September 17, 2014, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by Poppis

As far as I know, you can't.

Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius

You can't see the rate anywhere, I know from regularly having a look at the culture mix on the settlement summary screen.

Thanks a lot guys. These are in fact bad news. With the visiable growth rate you would at least have a good indication which of your actions have a positive and negative cultural effect.

**ambereyes** · September 18, 2014, 04:41 PM

A visible growth rate would be incredibly useful. It would make the entire mod significantly more user friendly to be able to see the effect of a queued building on culture in the same way that you can preview it's effect on public order. Does anyone know if this is feasible? Lacking a visible growth rate is there a way to check inside the files somewhere to see what's currently affecting the culture of a given city, or the rate of a change of a culture in a given city?

**Poppis** · September 17, 2014, 12:40 PM

As far as I know, you can't.

**Legion_IX** · September 18, 2014, 07:59 AM

I have a problem with culture mechanics in my current Baktria game.

To get the reform you need three steps.
1) reject tribute payments to Arche
2) win 9 battles and conquer 2 provinces from Arche
3) build Basilike Patris

The problems began with the third step. To build this building a need a metropolis, neither of my cities has such a status. To became metropolis you need a Forum and 69% greek culture level. The capital Baktra, has the highest level of 52%. It seems to be that the governor hasn't any effect. I have currently a governor with 9 influence, but the culture level isn't changing at least during my 10 last turns. So the only possibility is to build Military Settlers Barracks. But to build them you need 16 hellenistic settler points and if I understand this correctly they are created by metropolis only, which I don't have at all.

We have here a typical vicious circle. To complete the reform I need to build a metropolis->to have a metropolis I need a high culture level->the only way to increase culture is to build a metropolis

**Giuliano Taverna** · September 18, 2014, 02:34 PM

Not at all clear on this but to make Arche Hellenic I should take Pergamon and Alexandria, demolish all native garrison buildings, and make faction colonies and poleis when and where possible?

If not please explain, also should I occupy and reduce taxes on settlements with metropoleis in order to speed up colonial rates or are they independent of actual city development?

**YSH** · October 03, 2014, 09:19 AM

How do you build colonies as the Koinon Hellenon, and is this even possible? The advisor has been bugging me about the option since turn 1, but the option doesn't show up anywhere (I have conquered the Getai so it's not that I only have hellenic cities). I checked the text files and for hellenic colonies the Koinon is not mentioned as a faction that can build them. Am I doing something wrong, or is the advisor wrong? If so, how does the Koinon convert cities to its culture?