culture conversion

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ive read the cultural conversion thread that states a road net or harbour are needed. in my current game provinces are only converting if there is extensive road net or harbour.am i just being unlucky or is extensive road net required?

 

[Count of Reval]

Both, target as well source province should have either roadnet or civilian harbour. Extensive roadnet is not required, but if you have that improvement (better yet, in both provinces) it increases your probability having cultural conversion event.

The most difficult condition of that event to fulfill, IMHO, is that every conversion counterpart has to be in peace (target's owner, source's owner and realm's highest ruler).

 

[unmerged(213934)]

so im just being unlucky!! 150 years of virtual total peace in scandinavia and only bergenshus has converted.darn!!

 

[jordarkelf]

MTTH can be annoying yes. It helps if your have vassals of your culture, since they will also spread culture in your realm. With combined forces it is possible to convert larger regions over time... I had one game where I succesfully turned a major part of northern France German.

 

[Count of Reval]

so im just being unlucky!! 150 years of virtual total peace in scandinavia and only bergenshus has converted.darn!!

Event's unmodified MTTH is 166 years, so if you play somebody in poor Scandinavia, you can't probably afford many province improvements at the beginning of the game (plus you have slower tech discovery/spread) and the low cultural conversion rate is therefore natural. But as you know, modifiers can have a huge effect on some events. Once I tried to convert Iberian peninsula into Castillian culture as fast as I could and achieved during a 75-year period (in the 12th century) a quite stable average converting rate 1-province-per-3-years. So the success of cultural conversion fluctuates dramatically, depending heavily on circumstances.

One good trick is to have religious conversions first (they are easier to provoke) - and this will improve your chances with culture spread significantly.

 

[Rivus]

My Kingdom of Ireland just completed the Reconquista. It's 1152 now and not a single cultural conversion. Some religious ones though. Sigh

 

[Count of Reval]

My Kingdom of Ireland just completed the Reconquista. It's 1152 now and not a single cultural conversion. Some religious ones though. Sigh

In an unmodded game, culture can spread only from one province to another and those two provinces should share a border or be connected by a trade route. Ireland is isolated from the continent and has only trade routes with England. So, to "export" Irish culture to Iberian peninsula, you should have some footholds at least in southern England and western coast of France. The shortest path for spreading culture in your case would be Dublin-Bristol-Dorset-Saintonge-Compostela, but it depends on circumstances whether you are able as a ruler of Kingdom of Ireland to switch all those provinces into your realm or do you have to follow some other chain of provinces.

 

[Rivus]

Doh. I completely forgot about the trade route requirement.

You just helped me decide on my next theatre of expansion. With most of Hispania (and Wales) under me, I'm wondering if I should focus back on England, or expand into Muslim Mauritania/Canaries.

The English are holding Asturias and Navarre in any case. A war with England with the aim of absorbing Cornwall/Somerset and integrating more Spanish provinces to the Irish blob may be for the best. France's hold on Saintonge, though, will be a problem - they've been pretty stable and strong for the past 100years