Palace location commitee

[Ninot]

Panag is right, Del Monte is a good looking city for either-or

[Aro]

Originally posted by Reddawg
I am strongly opposed to Timeline, Gaia, and Napoleton. No offense to their patrons.

I'm not offended. Therefore, we still have Chiquita, Del Monte, Geofront and Seeberg. Any other suggestions?

[Ninot]

/me pounds his Del Monte drum

[Shiber]

I second that. Del Monte will be the perfect spot for the FP.

[Harovan]

My first shot about the P/FP axis:

The Palace in Macross City. It is about 50% corrupt now, could flip Rheims, Lyons and Sparta and serve as economic center after finishing France and biting off a part of Greece.

The FP in Geofront. After cleaning and tile improvement this city will kick butt with all those mountains. Gives a decent economy also in the future Persian province of Apolytonia.

This gives a pretty good shape, but totally neglects Uber isle. May be we could finish a base improvement there before we finish the new axis.

What do you think?

[Shiber]

Hmm...
Well, the Persian peninsula is da bomb. I'd bet it produces loads of commerce and shields. If we build a P or FP in Geofront we'd lose a lot of potential from the Persian peninsula.
Otherwise I would have supported your proposal.

[Harovan]

Commerce maybe, but I think the production center will be in the region between Seeberg and Tyre, where we have about half grassland (after cleaning jungle) and half hills and mountains. That results in 80-100 shield cities. A FP location near Tyre or Gordium is possible too, but I would not go farther east, or the mentioned region will be hurt.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Del Monte and Chiquita are very poor locations in my opinion, I haven't heard any good argument for them as everything north of them is "ghetto land". Why anyone would sacrifice city sites with virtually solid grassland for city sites with all desert or plains is a mystery to me.

Timeline would hold corruptions levels to less than half for the cities from Paris to Chicago to Ubergorsk and Seeberg.

[OPD]

So how are things going with the commitee?

It's really important that a decision is made soon.

Is a palace jump still being considered if so we might want to build sisitnes in that city? Therefore the sooner a decision on this is made the better.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I would say Gaia/Timeline is the best looking site for the FP even though the Northern affected area is wasted on desert it would easily take Del Monte, Chiquita, and the Iron Curtain into its radius. Also bringing our original homeland thus provided seaports for ship production.

The Palace would probably be located in Persia somewhere potentially covering Britain.

[Aro]

Well, that's an interesting idea, because there's some discussion about our expansion to north (a lot of people don't want another American War), and we are conquering the Persian’s territory. Could give us a balanced axis of production.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Aro
Well, that's an interesting idea, because there's some discussion about our expansion to north (a lot of people don't want another American War), and we are conquering the Persian’s territory. Could give us a balanced axis of production.

Gaia or Timeline would cover that, Chiquita or Del Monte is shifting the area to cover Greece's Ivory Coast(nothing but plains and desert) at the expense of out homeland(rivers and grassland) and IMO rivers and grassland make for much better cities than plains and desert.

[UnOrthOdOx]

Just my little input. How many proposals have we come up with?

This needs to be opened to voting by Wed night.

[Arnelos]

Generally, I would think it's a good idea to place the Palace and Forbidden Palace as far apart as possible while having both at the episcenter of a major producing region...

Thus, wouldn't it make sense to have the palace located near the middle of the traditional middle of our empire (perhaps even leaving it in Apolyton because of Uber Island) and then placing the Forbidden Palace in Pasargadae once we've completely annexed the Persians and build up that city?

The other option, especially if we dont' fully annex the Persians, is to place the Forbidden Palace somewhere to the far north of the empire, as it would then be more useful for any American and/or French areas we take along with any future campaigns in that region.

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by Arnelos
Generally, I would think it's a good idea to place the Palace and Forbidden Palace as far apart as possible while having both at the episcenter of a major producing region...

Thus, wouldn't it make sense to have the palace located near the middle of the traditional middle of our empire (perhaps even leaving it in Apolyton because of Uber Island) and then placing the Forbidden Palace in Pasargadae once we've completely annexed the Persians and build up that city.

This I think is our best option. It will allow for some over lap of the P/FP in the region of Seeburg, Neopolyton, Geofront, New Tyre and Ubergrosk (our production center for the industral age) and it still optimises the Core of our Empire (with nice rivers), Uber Island and the Persian Homeland (with nice rivers).

I also remember an idea of moving the Palace around to build up areas as we go along. This is a great Idea except that once the Place is gone from an area, it becomes corrupt again no matter how many improvements are built there. The entire area becomes a drain on our economy.