Civilization 5 World Wonders: Forbidden Palace

Building Strategies and Wonder Information

World Wonder: Forbidden Palace

Tech Required: Banking

Production Cost: 500

What it Does: Requires you to Adopt Patronage. Gives +2 Delegates in the World Congress, while also reducing happiness from population by -10% in non-occupied Cities and giving +1 Culture.

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Combined with the ease with which you can befriend City-States with Patronage, the Forbidden Palace will help you to easier score a Diplomacy Win. Brave New World's 2013 Fall patch will make it require more Delegates to win the World Congress, so this definitely gives you an edge. You may fail on your first attempt at election, but so long as you get second place in the results you'll earn some permanent delegates to help you - follow up by buying out the rest of the leader's City-States (being prepared for War) and you will secure your victory. Those 2 delegates may not seem like much, but they are effectively one more City-State ally and World Leader aside, can help you win votes - like protecting yourself from being embargoed or passing key Resolutions and having control over what politics pass/fail in the Congress.

Due to the time that this Wonder is built, you should be able to take over the host position for the Congress with ease on the next vote so long as you can get some City-States to back you up - of particular importance is to steal CS Allies from your top competitor to take away their Delegates, which is doubly beneficial to you.

The secondary effect of -10% Happiness in non-occupied Cities means that in cities that are not occupied (conquer and lack courthouse) you will see -10% unhappiness -- so a size 20 City would have instead -18 base unhappiness from population.

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Stefan says...

I didn't know this one required Patronage and ran into lots of trouble in a Dual game while playing as Venice and had assimilated every city state.

My opponent built the wonder and won every World Congress election afterwards thanks to it.

I could win despite it, but it certainly got a lot harder without it!

(I could've released two of the city states to prevent that, but...)

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19th September 2014 10:38am

Thain says...

-10% in non-occupied Cities may not seem like much at the first glance, but it's actually quite a strong bonus and helps considerably later in the game.

Stefan, after CS was bought by Venice or Austria, it is actually not a CS anymore: it can't be liberated, but can be razed (except it's a Holy City, which is highly unlikely).
CS is out of the game permanently when that happens.

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20th October 2014 5:11am

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