In Civilization 3 and 4, your civilization's borders aren't limited to the area worked by your cities. It's a matter of cultural influence. Different buildings expand your specific cultural influence, and you can acquire territory simply by enough culture accumulating. If you're generating enough, you can acquire enemy territory by overwhelming their cultural influence in an area. If you're truly impressive you can get cities this way as your enemy's cities revolt, which is why you'd better be careful to keep your own cities culturally strong or they'll do it to you too.
What tends to creep people out is my attitude towards conquered cities. As soon as I take a city by force, the first thing I do is start building cultural buildings. I bring in plenty of soldier to pin the city down, but it's more important to crank up the culture output in the city. If there's even the slightest trace of surplus workers being available, I put them to work as artists or entertainers. Because once I do that? They're putting out my culture, not the one they used to be. Mine. Yes, I took your city away from you, foreign civilization, but by the time I'm done the people who live there won't even remember you. The language spoken in your city will be mine as your people die off or get packed into settler units to go and build cities for my civilization somewhere else. Every population point added to the city, every child born, will be a child born into my culture. My people will overwhelm yours and overwrite yours until all of your land is so firmly mine that you won't even recognize it. Your children will be born to me and know no other ruler, no other way.
And you won't be able to do a damn thing about it. Their souls will be mine.
I don't do the Red Rider of the Apocalypse. I do the White's work; and the White Rider is not Pestilence, as so many would have you believe, but Conquest.
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What tends to creep people out is my attitude towards conquered cities. As soon as I take a city by force, the first thing I do is start building cultural buildings. I bring in plenty of soldier to pin the city down, but it's more important to crank up the culture output in the city. If there's even the slightest trace of surplus workers being available, I put them to work as artists or entertainers. Because once I do that? They're putting out my culture, not the one they used to be. Mine. Yes, I took your city away from you, foreign civilization, but by the time I'm done the people who live there won't even remember you. The language spoken in your city will be mine as your people die off or get packed into settler units to go and build cities for my civilization somewhere else. Every population point added to the city, every child born, will be a child born into my culture. My people will overwhelm yours and overwrite yours until all of your land is so firmly mine that you won't even recognize it. Your children will be born to me and know no other ruler, no other way.
And you won't be able to do a damn thing about it. Their souls will be mine.
I don't do the Red Rider of the Apocalypse. I do the White's work; and the White Rider is not Pestilence, as so many would have you believe, but Conquest.