How does palace jump work exactly?

[pnp_dredd]

Ok i am trying to do a palace jump. I think I have done just one successfully in the past. I musnt quite understand the mechanics of it.

I always thought that if you disband the city with a palace in it, by building a settler at size 2 with no food increase, that it jumped to the next largest city. Actually I thought it jumped to the city with the largest poulation of citizens of your race. So a large foreign city you have just taken over can't become your capital.

But this palace jump I am trying to do just wont work.I want it to jump to a size 5 city way far away from my old capital, as my FP is just next to the capital. That is the only size 5 city i have. They are all my citizens. But the palace jumps to the city NEXT to the old capital, which is a size 4 city.

Is it something to do with happy and content citizens? non-specialist citizens? (my city far away has 2 entertainers). Does the new palace have to be connected BY ROAD to the old capital? Is there something I am missing competely?

 

[Selous]

what is the culture of the 2 citys? .... i have always thought it was the next largest city ... but your example shows different .... so perhaps culture?

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

are all the citizens in the size 5 town your nationality?????

and do check biggest twons in world, there seems to be a small bonus for them (culture or whatever)

 

[Cartouche Bee]

A palace jump later in the game can be difficult to predict. Any city of a size 4 or more will be the first cities that will be considered. If you have more than 1 city of a size 4 or more you are best to reduce the population in the cities where you don't want the palace to jump to. Although some factors like culture can have impact; this mostly occurs in cities with culture over 100. If you have two cities with culture over 100 and size greater than 3 it appears that the city closest will get the palace. Some of the old concepts regarding the number of citizens or race seem to have been circumstantial. Also it had been proposed that city score that is used in the top 5 cities plays a part but I have found that does not always apply either.

Hope this helps... painful as it may be.

CB

 

[pnp_dredd]

Thanks for the replies.... seems that its a lot more complicated than I thought. You always hear that people get their palace to go exactly where they want it, not that they completely starve all the other cities to do it.

 

[FenrysWulf]

from observing enemy civs which I was crushing under my heel, I thought it might have something to do with which cities were constructed first. Meaning if the capital was destroyed, the second city built would become the capital. Often they happen to be the second largest as well. But that could also be a coincidence if it goes by culture, because the oldest cities would have the most culture.

 

[wohmongarinf00l]

i think palace jumps are rather simple.

it will jump to the city with the largest population. i have had
a palace jump to a newly conquered city.

the procedure seems to be to reduce the population of any city that u dont want to jump to....for accurate prediction, there can
be only one city of that size and that's the one u want to jump to.

 

[Cartouche Bee]

Sorry, but the palace will not always jump to the largest city. This has been previously confirmed by BillChin and the starter of this thread. You indeed have had this occur but a number of other factors contribute to where the jump occurs to. If you want to jump your palace a long distance, 40 squares for example, you need to plan the jump very carefully cause the largest city or the largest cultured city or happiest city does not always get the palace. Distance definitely plays a part in the calculation of all the factors.

CB