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[PaintDragon]

I'm just wondering this because I'd generated a world with a very short history, which didn't give the civilizations time to develop their own cultures. As a result, they're all pretty much carbon-copies of each other.
Also, what determines a civilization's culture in the first place? Is it just the average 'values' of its population or what?

[Shonai_Dweller]

I'm just wondering this because I'd generated a world with a very short history, which didn't give the civilizations time to develop their own cultures. As a result, they're all pretty much carbon-copies of each other.
Also, what determines a civilization's culture in the first place? Is it just the average 'values' of its population or what?

Culture is due to be more fully implemented in the arc after Mythgen. Right now it's based mainly in values (of which human civs differ from each other but other races are mostly the same from civ to civ). In addition the leader of the civ has some influence on how aggressive they are. Especially if they're a vampire.

[DrCyano]

For the most part, culture and civ knowledge (like which animals they have domesticated) only develops during world generation, but alliances and wars and leadership of the various sites and civs does change during play (eg I've lost my mountainhome to enemy conquest while playing in fortress mode).

The best way to change the world is to conquer it yourself 

[Shonai_Dweller]

What exactly do we mean by "culture" here anyway?
War, destroyed sites, new sites, reclaimed sites, kidnapping, revolution all happens in the background, yes. None of that is "culture" is it?

[PatrikLundell]

Art, such as books and music is produced after world gen and history as well, although instruments are generated and fixed during world gen.