Usefullness of Palaces

[dsbrown@is2.dal.c]

> I'm just a little curious about how many of you use palaces.
> According to my estimates if you pay any court costs at all an
> investment in a palace is well worth it. For example, if you are
> paying 9 GB per domain turn for your court you should buy a
> 45 GB palace. It's not really that much money since you actually
> pay only 1d6 GB per turn. The palace, once completed, will
> now add 9 GB worth of diplomacy. Factoring in the 1 GB of
> maintenance once the palace is completed you save 8 GB per
> turn without losing the benefits of your court. At that rate the
> palace pays itself off after just 6 turns and then _earns_ you
> money each turn.

We use them all the time, for exactly the reasons you ahve mentioned.
The problem occurs if you try to build a palace and for whatever
reason run out of money (natural disaster, war, embezzlement, etc ).
Then you have a bit of a problem, but the risk is well worth it.
Course I didn't tell my players about it...it only took them a year
of real time (roughly 4 years game) to figure that one out :)

Sean

[L.Willett]

- ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I'm just a little curious about how many of you use palaces.
>According to my estimates if you pay any court costs at all an
>investment in a palace is well worth it. For example, if you are
>paying 9 GB per domain turn for your court you should buy a
>45 GB palace. It's not really that much money since you actually
>pay only 1d6 GB per turn. The palace, once completed, will
>now add 9 GB worth of diplomacy. Factoring in the 1 GB of
>maintenance once the palace is completed you save 8 GB per
>turn without losing the benefits of your court. At that rate the
>palace pays itself off after just 6 turns and then _earns_ you
>money each turn.

Gotta have one ! I have a question on palaces:
What with the "5d6" GB cost for palaces ? Seems mindless to me that I
can't set the cost/size of my palace. Hence I ignore the rule.
What do others do ?

I myself just allow the player to choose the size of the palace. He chose
a palace of 45gb's, giving him a +9 diplomacy. Needless to say, it took a
while for it to get built, but he is the envy of all around him. Actually,
everyone envies his money...not the palace, well..just a bit.

Eric

[Vestrii@aol.co]

Hello everyone,

I'm just a little curious about how many of you use palaces.
According to my estimates if you pay any court costs at all an
investment in a palace is well worth it. For example, if you are
paying 9 GB per domain turn for your court you should buy a
45 GB palace. It's not really that much money since you actually
pay only 1d6 GB per turn. The palace, once completed, will
now add 9 GB worth of diplomacy. Factoring in the 1 GB of
maintenance once the palace is completed you save 8 GB per
turn without losing the benefits of your court. At that rate the
palace pays itself off after just 6 turns and then _earns_ you
money each turn.

Dave

[Robin Cantin]

>Hello everyone,
>
> I'm just a little curious about how many of you use palaces.
>According to my estimates if you pay any court costs at all an
>investment in a palace is well worth it. For example, if you are
>paying 9 GB per domain turn for your court you should buy a
>45 GB palace. (...)
>Dave

Our Ilien-Medoere alliance has a joint court in a brand new palace. It does
indeed save a lot of money, although one must be able to invest the GBs
each turn in the first place.

Robin


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[dsbrown@is2.dal.c]

> Does anyone else roll the success (5+) each turn ? Success indicates that
> the d6 GBs are spent; failure indicates that hte d6 GBs are wasted.
> As opposed to the whole thing's success depending on one roll ( "well, it
> took 2 years, and the palace is done, but no one seemed to notice that the
> walls were so crooked as to make the building un-usable..." )
I roll every turn...make a bit more sense that something could
happen during the season to set back work, but it seems a little odd
that the entire palace could be constructed, and no one notice a majr
flaw until the very end

Sean

[Trevor Romkey]

At 12:18 AM 28/05/97, you wrote:
>>> I'm just a little curious about how many of you use palaces.
>>> According to my estimates if you pay any court costs at all an
>>> investment in a palace is well worth it. For example, if you are
>>> paying 9 GB per domain turn for your court you should buy a
>>> 45 GB palace. It's not really that much money since you actually
>>> pay only 1d6 GB per turn. The palace, once completed, will
>>> now add 9 GB worth of diplomacy. Factoring in the 1 GB of
>>> maintenance once the palace is completed you save 8 GB per
>>> turn without losing the benefits of your court. At that rate the
>>> palace pays itself off after just 6 turns and then _earns_ you
>>> money each turn.
>
> And another querry on palace construction...
>
> Does anyone else roll the success (5+) each turn ? Success indicates that
>the d6 GBs are spent; failure indicates that hte d6 GBs are wasted.
> As opposed to the whole thing's success depending on one roll ( "well, it
>took 2 years, and the palace is done, but no one seemed to notice that the
>walls were so crooked as to make the building un-usable..." )
>