Flipping cultures

[Gregorovitch]

Playing Poland/Commonwealth I've had a lot of this to deal with. It seems to me that sometimes when you flip a culture it turns the existing culture into an accepted culture (which is cool 'cos all the other provinces of that culture become accepted too), and sometimes it just flips the single province to your culture. I'm pretty sure that in my first attempt at Poland when I flipped Danzig it changed Prussian to accepted culture (so all the other Teutonic Order provinces became accepted) but this time it turned Danzig Polish.

Anyone explain to me what determines this?

 

[Emre Yigit]

By flipping, do you mean converting your country to that culture, or the province to yours? If the first, obviously, as your previous country culture is presumably still fairly important, and if the second, I've never seen that happen.

 

[aitaituo]

You mean when you spend diplo points to change provinces to your own culture? That's totally unrelated to accepted cultures. Cultures become accepted when 20% of the base tax of your cored provinces come from provinces with that culture.

Did you get the notification that you were now accepting Prussian culture the month after you pushed the button to convert the culture of Danzig? I suspect you cored it, which gave you enough Prussian base tax to make it accepted, then got the notification after you started the cultural conversion process.

 

[Emre Yigit]

I suspect you cored it, which gave you enough Prussian base tax to make it accepted, then got the notification after you started the cultural conversion process.

This must be it.

 

[Gregorovitch]

You mean when you spend diplo points to change provinces to your own culture? That's totally unrelated to accepted cultures. Cultures become accepted when 20% of the base tax of your cored provinces come from provinces with that culture.

Did you get the notification that you were now accepting Prussian culture the month after you pushed the button to convert the culture of Danzig? I suspect you cored it, which gave you enough Prussian base tax to make it accepted, then got the notification after you started the cultural conversion process.

Thank you, that explains the situation perfectly. I did not know about this 20% rule for some reason. Obviously it can make a big difference to your expansion plans in some situations.