Palace exploit- known or not?

[Civddict]

1. If you want to "rush" wonder, and currently, you cannot built any wonder, but you want to prepare ( lets say for UN, Smith's Trading Company etc.) and be ready when Technology is known,
simply start build Palace. It takes lots of turns and when technology is known simply switch to building of GW.

2. somebody "stole" your wonder. you had only one turn left, and somebody just built it
Of course you don't want to waste your shields.
No big deal, if no other wonders are available for building, switch to Palace, and navigate your Tech research to some cool wonder...and when tech is known...switch to wonder. I managed to built Theory of Evolution in 9 turns.

 

[duke o' york]

Even I know that one and I've never played Civ 3!

Yeah, that's a well-known trick to use, but if you end up building the palace then you can find your entire empire in all kinds of trouble, and obviously this little trick will not work in your capital.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

if you search a little, you can find a thread about this (try the search function with Palace and exploit as keys) where we talked at length whether this is an allowed exploit or not,

 

[NiteCreature]

I'd say we know about this 'game mechanic' since ancient times

I don't think it's a bug OR exploit... it's strategy and they left it in for a reason.

 

[Civddict]

isn't crazy at least, you are building knight, and you can swith production to cathedral, or palace, or anything else ??


I don't think that AI can take advatage of this "exploit"

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Civddict: they do! Bach with 1.16, I played several games with the map-cheart and watched the AI intently. They do cahgne all the time when they think it necessary. one thing is especially interesting: if they go to war, they change all non-wonder production to units, even if they loose huge amounts of shields. But: they do get a boost in troop strength that way....

 

[Kilroy]

Someone needs to visit the front page...

 

[robehans]

isn't crazy at least, you are building knight, and you can swith production to cathedral, or palace, or anything else ??

Think of production as a gathering of money to buy the needed craftmanship or buildforce and then when youre changing production youre simply gathering money for an other object...

 

[sabo]

Originally posted by Civddict

2. somebody "stole" your wonder. you had only one turn left, and somebody just built it
Of course you don't want to waste your shields.
No big deal, if no other wonders are available for building, switch to Palace, and navigate your Tech research to some cool wonder...and when tech is known...switch to wonder. I managed to built Theory of Evolution in 9 turns.

Yeah it works great as long as your not building the wonder in your capitol city which is usually the most obvious