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How can I build the Forbidden Palace faster?
Normally, as I found my first eight cities, my empire is expanding in on particular direction, and I build the FP at the opposite end, giving my initial group of cities very high production. This seems logical to me, and I assume it's how most people play.
Sometimes, though, I find a very good site far away. In my current game, my first two cities had good sites but were surrounded by jungle. During early expansion/exploration/fighting/map trading, I found a distant site with FIVE CATTLE and a river running through it. I build my 5th city there, rushed a Temple, and started production on some Wonder to save up shields for the FP. I quicly built roads to the new city and conquered the rest of the continent, keeping two cities. I founded my 8th city as I shuffled non-elite Horsemen to the distant city to rush the FP. The corrupt city was now size 6 with 11 production, 10 of it going to waste. I switched production to the Forbidden Palace -- 267 turns to complete. I disbanded a couple horsemen... still 267 turns to complete. I thought maybe I had to actually produce part of the FP before I could disband units for it, so I waited, and next turn tried disbanding a couple Horsemen. Still 266 turns to complete. I spent 2 population to rush a Courthouse. Next turn, production went from 1 up to 4 -- FP complete in 75 turns. As my production goes up, corruption goes up, so there's no hope of me completing it in less than 75 turns.
This is something that changed in the patch, right? Is there any way for me to speed that up?
(note to Willem: I'm not talking about using the editor to lower the cost of the Forbidden Palace
)
Normally, as I found my first eight cities, my empire is expanding in on particular direction, and I build the FP at the opposite end, giving my initial group of cities very high production. This seems logical to me, and I assume it's how most people play.
Sometimes, though, I find a very good site far away. In my current game, my first two cities had good sites but were surrounded by jungle. During early expansion/exploration/fighting/map trading, I found a distant site with FIVE CATTLE and a river running through it. I build my 5th city there, rushed a Temple, and started production on some Wonder to save up shields for the FP. I quicly built roads to the new city and conquered the rest of the continent, keeping two cities. I founded my 8th city as I shuffled non-elite Horsemen to the distant city to rush the FP. The corrupt city was now size 6 with 11 production, 10 of it going to waste. I switched production to the Forbidden Palace -- 267 turns to complete. I disbanded a couple horsemen... still 267 turns to complete. I thought maybe I had to actually produce part of the FP before I could disband units for it, so I waited, and next turn tried disbanding a couple Horsemen. Still 266 turns to complete. I spent 2 population to rush a Courthouse. Next turn, production went from 1 up to 4 -- FP complete in 75 turns. As my production goes up, corruption goes up, so there's no hope of me completing it in less than 75 turns.
This is something that changed in the patch, right? Is there any way for me to speed that up?
(note to Willem: I'm not talking about using the editor to lower the cost of the Forbidden Palace
)
) Next build the temple to expand your border. In either case, plant trees and cut them down around your FP city. If the tiles are closer to that city than any neighboring towns, the 10 shields go to FP construction.
(go figure, lots of wars but no luck
)...
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