What happened to palace improvements?

[Nomaar]

It's not a big thing, but the palace/throne improvements have been a signature feature of Civ game that were fun. Why'd they leave it out?

 

[wagboy]

yea i kinda wish it was in too

 

[Charles 22]

I stopped using that completely on CIV3, it was boring and awful to me. I only did it in the first place because I thought it was integral to the game and after I found out it was not I didn't know how to turn it off for a time. Wonder movies, though not necessary either, are far better than these paper palaces (I'm just comparing the CIV2 movies to the CIV3 palaces).

 

[Snarfy]

Palaces were a lame graphical representation of success.

Now you have all of your cities growing in front of your eyes on the map. It's way cooler. You won't miss palaces.

 

[CivDav]

You mean the palace-screen where you can build you own palace in pieces if your nation is happy? If you mean this i think it hadn't got any importance.
Or you mean there isn't Palace as a capital-cityimprovement?

 

[Anima Croatorum]

He means the palace screen, not palace improvement.

 

[dalek master]

The Palace screen was good. If it was more complex and let you build more stuff in one go it was very fun to build you palace. I always found it a buzz whenever I got my first "the people love you" message because I knew I could add something to the palace.

 

[runedot]

In Civ3 I quite enjoyed building mix-n-match palaces...
Bottom tier Asian.
Second tier European.
Third tier Middle Eastern......

It ended up with some really strange looking palaces...

It's a pity that it's gone in Civ4, but oh well, it wasn't all that important.


(The Civ2 Throne-room one was weird though. As you 'improved' things went from looking strange to crazy! Why on earth would anyone want big metal beams going through their throne room?)

 

[Willem]

Great, they finally got rid of that. It was just an annoying time waster that added nothing to the game but eye-candy.

 

[zeeter]

Hey - at least we have the Dan Quayle list back!

 

[Nomaar]

I've been playing Civ for 10+ years with throne and palace improvements, and I'm not about to stop now. Dammit, Firaxis, patch the feature back in!