If you can convince your people that you’re worthy, you’ll earn ‘upgrade points’, which are shared between the throne room and palace, and you can use them to upgrade either of the two. It’s worth noting that this is a “purely cosmetic, flavour mod” that doesn’t bring gameplay effects, as such – but, it does include the neat upgrading system that you’d hope for.

Now, Technoluddite’s aptly named Thrones and Palaces Civilization 6 mod folds them both into Civ VI, and the result should “look and feel very familiar, with a few additions”. Civ III’s palace, meanwhile, was an upgradeable feature marking your empire’s capital city and, subsequently, its epicentre. Just as a refresher in case you’re more familiar with the latest titles in the long-running series of strategy games, Civ II’s throne room was an evolving feature that started out as a cave with a rock and would evolve into a luxurious space to reflect your prowess as a leader, and ability to please your subjects. However, they now can be thanks to a new mod that brings them both back. Take Civilization II’s throne rooms and Civilization III’s palaces, for example – while perhaps popular elements of the classic 4X games, they’re not found in the series’ latest instalment, Civilization VI.

As is only natural, sometimes features from a series’ past don’t always get taken forward.

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