What The...? I win?

[Flint]

Has anyone won a cultural victory of the 100K type (whole civ score not OCC) in C3C? I never have and apparently niether has the AI. Im wondering if maybe I uncovered a wierd bug in C3C or if something stupid just happened.
I was playing an emperor level game as the British and my main rivals, the Russians were poised for a 100K cultural victory by the 417th turn of the game. I had been montioring the victory screen closely every turn. I had built 8 space ship parts, but there was no way to win. I needed too many turns to research the laser and robotics to beat the Russians to victory. In the last 5 turns I constantly monitored all the diplo screens to see if anyone had researched robotics in time, but alas, by the last turn before Russia's culture pushed the Motherland over the victory limit noone had researched robotics, and I was still several turns away on max science. So, in maniacal dictator fashion I launched my stockpile of ICBMs at Russia, invaded a neighboring civ (who cares at this point? ) and sat back and waited for the inevitable. But then-Shockingly-the game continued the next turn. I checked, Russia had more than 100000 culture points , why hadnt they won? I know that all victory modes were active and that also victory modes should only show up on the victory screen if they are enabled. Nonethless a few incredibly unsatisfying turns later I launched my space ship (funny enough that victory mode ACTUALLY gave me victory) Why did this happen? It feels like my high scores list is tainted. It was a fun game that seemingly came down to a spacerace v culture battle at the end, which the Russians won. It was fun and I had accepted the fact I would lose, but I technically didn't. I have never gotten 100k culture ever (not just in C3C, any version of civ3 ) and I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this or knows what went wrong. Is this like a major C3C bug or something?

Edit: fixed typos

[Veovim]

Did any of the other civs have >50k culture? To get a civ wide culture victory, you need to reach the limit (also remember, it's 100k only for standard sized maps), and have more than twice the culture of your nearest competitor.

[Flint]

Oh thanks thats probably just what happened then . That must make it like impossible to win by culture. And it was a standard sized map. Has anyone out there ever won a 100K cultural victory?

[Griselda]

It can certainly be done, but often it involves building lots of cities very early, which many players here consider to be bordering on exploitative if you're cramming in the cities too tightly. I had a lot of fun with my 100K PTW game in Epic Twenty-eight. Many players find that they need to take some military action against their nearest rival to get the victory. That's one reason that the cultural games were scored based upon number of cities attacked in this game. I hadn't played a solo 100K game yet, so a lot of the report goes into detail of how I was doing towards my 100K goal at various points during the game. It was PTW, so some things will be different, but you may find it helpful. My report was posted on our old forum, so I do recommend that you have a popup blocker installed before you check out the report.

I'm not up-to-date on more recent 100K games that are good reads, but hopefully that should get you started.

[Sullla]

Most current 100K strategies (or the equivalent on other map sizes) rely on building the Temple of Artemis ASAP and then founding enormous numbers of tiny junk cities as close to one another as possible. Since this is about as far away from my definition of fun as possible, I've stayed well away from it. Let's hope there's a better implementation of cultural victory conditions in future Civ games.

[microbe]

Most current 100K strategies (or the equivalent on other map sizes) rely on building the Temple of Artemis ASAP and then founding enormous numbers of tiny junk cities as close to one another as possible.

I've never seen or used this strategy for 100K (at least for emperor). I am not sure you could conclude "most" here.