timmy827 Wrote:With the inner ring getting an extra 20 cpt once the first border pops, it's basically impossible at this point in the game for either city to hold the tiles in its 2nd ring that are in the other's 1st ring.
What's to watch out for is if either city gets a ring ahead of the other - if either city passes 100 while the other hasn't, the first matches the extra 20cpt and can pull ahead by putting out more base culture. That will eventually happen to one side if the other neglects culture entirely. Also, the sooner you get to 100, the sooner you start to put up some defense against a culture bomb in the opposing city. You're probably right that it should be lower priority right now, though.
Also, Sullla surely remembers there was a big swing in the RB-Imperio war over a single tile of cultural control, which would have made the difference between a 1-turn attack or 2-turn attack on our critical border city with the Heroic Epic.