RedRover57
Emperor
- Joined
- Nov 1, 2010
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I rarely take the Patronage tree even when going for a Diplo VC. It is a relatively weak tree. If you have enough gold income you don't really need the influence boosts, and the other policies in the tree aren't great either (particularly after the Scholasticism nerf). The only time I even go for the Patronage tree is sometimes as my 5th policy tree in a cultural VC. The one useful policy in the tree is the one that doubles strategic resources gifts from CS, if you are going for a domination VC with a strategy that uses lots of oil or aluminum-based units (like tanks or bombers) and you have none of those resources in your territory. But the investment in the tree is steep to get there.