Whenever I make a scenario and play it, i have no city view in any city (button just isn't there) and I never get the option to improve my palace. This is using C3C, and everytime I start a new game, not a scenario, i have the city view and palace, everything is fine. Is this just standard in all C3C or conquests scenarios? i hope not. or is there something in the conquests.ini i can change to make the new game load my map? (if i carefully swith out conquests.biq) all i wanna do is play my own map with palace improvements and city view, is that so much to ask?

That's the way Conquests is made. Scenarios & mods don't let you build palace nor wiev your city.

There *is* a way around it, although I've never tried it: if your mod/scenario is entitled "Conquests" the city view screen will work (don't know about the palace). At least, that's what I've heard. Apart from that, aaglo's right - no city view or palace in anything other than the standard epic game.

IIRC one of them is triggered by a check of the file size in bytes so that any changes to the biq will remove it.