The palace is not only a unique symbol of your empire's grandeur, but a place to improve and elevate your favourite city.
Palace is a modular Administration Building which affects and boosts buildings built within its street range, which can be greatly increased by constructing many palace wings. The palace contains five different departments, each with a particular passive effect, which can be amplified by prestige levels obtained for reaching extremely high attractiveness on the island with the palace. It is possible to also select one of the five policies available within every department, each policy has a specific effect. The palace requires the Seat of Power DLC, it can be built only in the Old World (and Cape Trelawney), only one palace can be built per profile. Constructing the palace unlocks the option to build a Local Department on other islands.
Wings and street range[]
Wings are the modules of the palace which can be built in order to increase its street range and to increase island's attractiveness. Wings have to be attached to the palace, either directly or indirectly via other already connected wings. The wings have several visual variants but each wing has the same size, effects and construction cost:
- Construction cost: 50000 • 10 • 20 • 20 • 15 • 10
- Attractiveness: +15
- Size: 3x3
- Street range increase: Dirt Road +2; Paved Street +3
Street range of the palace depends on the number of wings built, and like in case of all buildings, the range is increased when paved streets are used. The available number of wings is limited and dependent on the profile level and the global population amount. There is no maximum limit of wings.
The street range of the palace also determines the range of local departments. Local department's range is equal to half of the range of the palace.
Profile Level | Population | Wing Limit | Max Range
(dirt roads) |
Max Range
(paved streets) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 0 | 6 | 60 | 89 |
34 | 13200 | 6 | 60 | 89 |
35 | 13600 | 10 | 68 | 101 |
36 | 14000 | 12 | 72 | 107 |
37 | 14400 | 14 | 76 | 113 |
38 | 14800 | 16 | 80 | 119 |
39 | 15200 | 18 | 84 | 125 |
40 | 15600 | 20 | 88 | 131 |
41 | 16000 | 22 | 92 | 137 |
42 | 16460 | 24 | 96 | 143 |
43 | 17610 | 26 | 100 | 149 |
44 | 19280 | 28 | 104 | 155 |
45 | 21470 | 30 | 108 | 161 |
46 | 24210 | 32 | 112 | 167 |
47 | 27510 | 34 | 116 | 173 |
48 | 31360 | 36 | 120 | 179 |
49 | 35780 | 38 | 124 | 185 |
50 | 40780 | 40 | 128 | 191 |
51 | 46360 | 42 | 132 | 197 |
52 | 52520 | 44 | 136 | 203 |
53 | 59280 | 46 | 140 | 209 |
54 | 66640 | 48 | 144 | 215 |
55 | 74600 | 50 | 148 | 221 |
56 | 83160 | 52 | 152 | 227 |
57 | 92330 | 54 | 156 | 233 |
58 | 102120 | 56 | 160 | 239 |
59 | 112520 | 58 | 164 | 245 |
60 | 123540 | 60 | 168 | 251 |
61 | 135190 | 62 | 172 | 257 |
62 | 147460 | 64 | 176 | 263 |
63 | 160360 | 66 | 180 | 269 |
64 | 173900 | 68 | 184 | 275 |
65 | 188070 | 70 | 188 | 281 |
66 | 202870 | 72 | 192 | 287 |
67 | 218320 | 74 | 196 | 293 |
68 | 234410 | 76 | 200 | 299 |
69 | 251140 | 78 | 204 | 305 |
70 | 268520 | 80 | 208 | 311 |
71 | 286550 | 82 | 212 | 317 |
72 | 305230 | 84 | 216 | 323 |
73 | 324560 | 86 | 220 | 329 |
74 | 344550 | 88 | 224 | 335 |
75 | 365200 | 90 | 228 | 341 |
76 | 386510 | 92 | 232 | 347 |
77 | 408470 | 94 | 236 | 353 |
78 | 431100 | 96 | 240 | 359 |
79 | 454400 | 98 | 244 | 365 |
80 | 478360 | 100 | 248 | 371 |
81 | 502990 | 102 | 252 | 377 |
82 | 528290 | 104 | 256 | 383 |
83 | 554260 | 106 | 260 | 389 |
84 | 580900 | 108 | 264 | 395 |
85 | 608220 | 110 | 268 | 401 |
86 | 636210 | 112 | 272 | 407 |
87 | 664890 | 114 | 276 | 413 |
88 | 694240 | 116 | 280 | 419 |
89 | 724270 | 118 | 284 | 425 |
90 | 754980 | 120 | 288 | 431 |
91 | 786370 | 122 | 292 | 437 |
92 | 818450 | 124 | 296 | 443 |
93 | 851220 | 126 | 300 | 449 |
94 | 884670 | 128 | 304 | 455 |
95 | 918820 | 130 | 308 | 461 |
96 | 953650 | 132 | 312 | 467 |
97 | 989170 | 134 | 316 | 473 |
98 | 1025380 | 136 | 320 | 479 |
99 | 1062290 | 138 | 324 | 485 |
100 | 1099900 | 140 | 328 | 491 |
Departments[]
Icon | Department | Passive Effect | Prestige Bonus | Unlock Condition |
---|---|---|---|---|
Administration | +50 island workforce per Town Hall | +10 | 0 | |
Culture | +20% chance of receiving visiting Specialists at the Public Mooring | +4% | 450 | |
Labour | +10% productivity for production buildings and multifactories within range of a Trade Union | +2% | 700 | |
Welfare | +10 area of influence for all Public Buildings | +2 | 1000 | |
Trade | +200t of island storage per Harbourmaster's Office and Docklands Main Wharf | +40 | 1350 |
Policies[]
Department of Administration[]
Policies of the Department of Administration affect town halls or residences within the range of town halls.
Department of Culture[]
Policies of the Department of Culture affect the World's Fair, culture buildings (zoos, museums and botanical gardens) or public moorings.
Icon | Policy | Effect | Unlock Condition |
---|---|---|---|
Cultural Outreach Act | +1 reward from World's Fair Events | 1000 | |
Heritage Act | +10 influence per museum module | 1000 | |
Conservation Act | +10 influence per zoo module | 3250 | |
Estate Collections Act | +250 attractiveness per completed cultural set
(affects zoological gardens, museums and botanical gardens) |
4500 | |
Right To Remain Act | Improves specialists visiting public mooring
(superior specialists replace the regular ones visiting your city - click here to see the list) |
6750 |
Department of Labour[]
Policies of the Department of Labour affect particular or all production buildings and multifactories within the range of trade unions, or affect trade unions themselves.
Department of Welfare[]
Policies of the Department of Welfare affect residences in range of certain connected public buildings, or power plants
Department of Trade[]
Policies of the Department of Trade affect harbour buildings in range of connected harbourmaster's offices and docklands main wharfs, or harbourmaster's offices and docklands themselves.
Prestige[]
Prestige is a value that determines the strength of passive effects of all departments. First prestige level is obtained with 9000 , each next level requires 1000 more. Each prestige level increases the base effect of the department by 20% of the base value, up to a maximum of 600% of the base value at prestige level 25. The table below lists all prestige level and exact strengths of departments' passive effects. Passive bonus from Welfare Department (+range) refers to dirt road, the same bonus on paved street is 1.5x the amount (max. bonus is +90).
Tourists' hot spot need[]
When Seat of Power DLC is active, Tourists have an additional optional hot spot need for the Palace. Like other hot spot needs it can be satisfied only via the bus network. Both the palace and a hotel have to be in the circular range of bus stops. The fulfilment level of the need is not determined by the distance between the bus stops, the palace and hotels can be located anywhere on the island as long as they are connected to the bus network.
When Hotels are connected to the Palace, each hotel gains 3 happiness and generates more income depending on game settings:
- high income: +468.75 coins per minute per hotel
- medium income: +421.875 coins per minute per hotel
- low income: +375 coins per minute per hotel