Forbidden Palace, using it differently!

[Lord Parkin]

But I'm almost certain that the Palace was always 400 shields in unpatched...???!!! Heck, have I really been playing all these years and never noticed this thing???

 

[cheesejoff]

Heh. You could try a sort of leapfrogging tactic, build the FP, then the P a bit further away, then the FP in the opposite direction, then keep moving them further away so they are at either end of your Empire.

 

[Lord Parkin]

Doesn't work, though... you can't rebuild the Forbidden Palace. (Unless you abandon the city it's in - which is a pretty stupid thing to do IMO.)

 

[da_Vinci]

I recently was able to improve the shield production in the city I wanted to build the FP in by abandoning about six small, very corrupted cities that had been recent captures but were closer to my capital than my FP city. That raised the shield production in the FP city (with a courthouse) from 2 to 5 or six, cutting the build time from about 75 turns (ouch!) to a reasonable 25. Completing the FP was like creating a second empire.

 

[Lord Parkin]

Yep. And - well in effect, you ARE creating a second empire. Definately one of the most useful small wonders in the game (probably THE most useful).

BTW, does anyone know how the game decides when you get the option to build the FP? Is it when you reach the OCN for the map?

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

BTW, does anyone know how the game decides when you get the option to build the FP? Is it when you reach the OCN for the map?

1/2 the OCN for that size map.

 

[Lord Parkin]

Ah, okay, that makes sense. Thanks!

 

[Theoden]

To clear up the discussion about the palace cost, the clear answer can be found in this article

 

[Lord Parkin]

Cool, thanks. Are you going to do any tests for earlier versions? (Or is it exactly the same formula?)