In the games that I've been playing recently, some of the A.I.s seem to favor a cultural victory strategy. The Torians spread like the plague, rapidly crowding the map. This usually causes me to completely change my strategy and focus on containing them in a reasonable amount of space. But it seems that the given solutions to this problem aren't enough. I know there are some obvious answers to this, I could:
Build a network of cultural bases, raise my loyalty score, build structures that raise my influence, etc. all the textbook solutions.
But, what I was interested in knowing is if there were any unorthodox or unconventional strategies, that people would be willing to share that works against a culturally aggressive race. I'm sure there must be tons of "secret" strategies that players must use that you can't look up in the manual. Does anyone want to part with some, or should I just turn the cultural victory off (which presents another problem altogether but I suppose that's for another post.)
