Assimilate and integrate

[asphar360]

The culture tab in the new update has been a little confusing for me so far. In the decision where you are able to "found colony" it states that the assimilation speed increases, but the integration speed decreases. To my knowledge these were the same thing. Soooo... Whats the difference?

[Wraith]

The difference between Assimilate and Integrate is this.

Assimilate is pretty much making any culture that not integrated eventually turn into your culture.

Integrate mean you going to make that specific culture equal to yours and they will grow alongside your primary culture.
TLDR it makes them convert to your culture faster but if you ever decide you want them to keep their cultural origin it will make integration of their culture longer.

[asphar360]

Originally posted by Wraith:

The difference between Assimilate and Integrate is this.

Assimilate is pretty much making any culture that not integrated eventually turn into your culture.

Integrate mean you going to make that specific culture equal to yours and they will grow alongside your primary culture.
TLDR it makes them convert to your culture faster but if you ever decide you want them to keep their cultural origin it will make integration of their culture longer.

Thanks for the reply but I'm still not quite sure what you mean. Using an example.... If i play a campaign as rome, and some of the population is of etruscan culture and in this example we'll ignore expansion of borders. By assimilating, over time the etruscan culture will be completely removed and all of them will become roman. However, with integration they will not become roman and instead remain of the etruscan culture but be treated as romans.

^^ Thats what i understood from your reply. Does this mean that the estruscans (in the example) won't be considered primary culture but other cultures in rome will be assimilated to both roman culture and estruscan?

[Wraith]

Roman will still be the Primary culture and the Estruscan won't be the primary culture but they will have all happiness benefits that your roman will.

The other culture that not integrated will eventuallly all turn into Roman(as that your primary) not Estruscan.
Estruscan culture however won't disappear over time though and will actually grow through migrations in your territories and natural growth pops.

I will use my existing game as an example.
My primary culture is Lacedamonian (sparta)
I have given integration rights to two culture Hebrews and Arcadian.

Over time (no conquest) my hebrew population of 2 grew to 16 instead of being assimilated to Lacedamonian.
Arcadian population went from 30 to 106.
Lacedamonian is sitting at 327 because I'm assimilating all other culture into Lacedamonian.

[asphar360]

Originally posted by Wraith:

Roman will still be the Primary culture and the Estruscan won't be the primary culture but they will have all happiness benefits that your roman will.

The other culture that not integrated will eventuallly all turn into Roman(as that your primary) not Estruscan.
Estruscan culture however won't disappear over time though and will actually grow through migrations in your territories and natural growth pops.

I will use my existing game as an example.
My primary culture is Lacedamonian (sparta)
I have given integration rights to two culture Hebrews and Arcadian.

Over time (no conquest) my hebrew population of 2 grew to 16 instead of being assimilated to Lacedamonian.
Arcadian population went from 30 to 106.
Lacedamonian is sitting at 327 because I'm assimilating all other culture into Lacedamonian.

Alright thanks man, that answers my questions.