Palace Problem

[blisteringlogic]

Hi all, I'm fairly new to the game. I'm playing a game on Cheiftain difficulty, I won because the time ran out. I continued playing in order to wipe out the last country. I had finished all tech research and put the research bar to 0 and was making about 1,000 gold per turn. At around 2258 a palace I was building completed and my gold production dropped from 1,000 to -11! I don't know why that would happen. In my Advisor it showed that my corruption had more than doubled. I thought Palaces were supposed to cut corruption... very confused. Does anyone know what caused this? Thanks in advance!!!

 

[Kirejara]

You allready got a palace in your capital from the start.

If you build a new one in a distant corner of your empire, the original will vanished (and the former capital and its surrounding cities will suffer increased corruption, while the effect of your new capital will require at least several rounds to spread).

To reduce corruption you can only have one Palace, one Forbidden Palace and the Secret Police HQ (requiered communistic government).

Only the Palace can be moved to a new capital, the others are stationary.

 

[Cyc]

Yup. You moved your Palace from a high commerce area to a low commerce area. When you did that, all the shields in the high commerce area were lost to corruption as they were too far from the new capital/Palace.

If this happens in another game, you can always relocate your Palace back to the original site with a Military Leader, as the Palace is an improvement, not a Wonder.