Pinstar
Ringtailed Regent
Every so often you'll see the round table come up as the 'contest'. This happens for all players in the game, not just your civ. The winner gets their palace upgraded one level. The catch is, the 'winner' has to win an auction. This one event has enormous potential benefit to the savvy player.
Step 1: Don't fall for it yourself. An upgraded palace does have a legitimate benefit, but not nearly enough to warrant the expense of trying to win the bid war.
Step 2: If you are on when the round table auction comes up, immediately sell lots of resources. Food, production, science; anything you can spare. About ~500 of each category at least (unless the market for a given type is already severely depressed). Even if you have specific goals in mind, don't be afraid to sell resources you are collecting; you'll get them back and more soon enough.
Step 3: Sit back and watch the fireworks. If you're lucky, you'll get a bid war. It might not look like much at first, but wait until the final minute. I've seen the bidding go over 20K gold on several occasions.
Step 4: As players sell off resources to make bigger and bigger bids, you'll see the prices for certain items crash.
Step 5: The moment the auction is over, start buying like a madperson. The prices will have been at their lowest settings allowing you to get tons of resources, more than you started with, for super-cheap. it is important that you go on a buying spree the moment the auction ends as the loser(s) of the auction may have the same idea and might buy up the cheap stuff rather than you.
Hope this helps.
Step 1: Don't fall for it yourself. An upgraded palace does have a legitimate benefit, but not nearly enough to warrant the expense of trying to win the bid war.
Step 2: If you are on when the round table auction comes up, immediately sell lots of resources. Food, production, science; anything you can spare. About ~500 of each category at least (unless the market for a given type is already severely depressed). Even if you have specific goals in mind, don't be afraid to sell resources you are collecting; you'll get them back and more soon enough.
Step 3: Sit back and watch the fireworks. If you're lucky, you'll get a bid war. It might not look like much at first, but wait until the final minute. I've seen the bidding go over 20K gold on several occasions.
Step 4: As players sell off resources to make bigger and bigger bids, you'll see the prices for certain items crash.
Step 5: The moment the auction is over, start buying like a madperson. The prices will have been at their lowest settings allowing you to get tons of resources, more than you started with, for super-cheap. it is important that you go on a buying spree the moment the auction ends as the loser(s) of the auction may have the same idea and might buy up the cheap stuff rather than you.
Hope this helps.
