An Idea based around what little we know about the next DLC is to give Kings and Emperors a palace holding. The option to get one would be available once you are advanced enough (some nations like the Byzantines would have one from the start). It could then be upgraded to provde various bonuses. The palace, once build, would remain in one province, but a new one could be build to repleace the old one if you change your capital.
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Personally I think that the more holding types the better 
But Palace looks like great idea. It's a shame that new holdings can't be modded in.
But Palace looks like great idea. It's a shame that new holdings can't be modded in.
They can't? Why not?Personally I think that the more holding types the better
I would love to have different kinds of holdings. Now that we have this personal palace sort of thing, why not generalise it and make it available to everyone? It would cost a fortune and would need a county with all other possible holdings built(Like Paris, or Iceland
) however would essentially work the same way as the republic one.So i support the op %100
I thought palaces were going to be for republics only, or at least that was the impression I got (Though your idea does interest me).
They are. I'm just saying they could be more to them than that. In another DLC or patch.
I think it's better just to use renamed castles for feudal lords. The palaces are there so families can remain landed and playable even if they don't control the Republic, which is quite right. I can imagine these palaces will be destroyed if a feudal lord takes over and will be recreated by the owning family in another province of the republic.
Or give us towers like the patrician families in Rome had. I still hope that the patrician families of Rome will be playable, even outside the shortlived commune it remained a republic vassal of the pope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_dei_Conti
Every dynasty having a Palace would basically mean the game could never end - even if you were deposed - short of your entire line being wiped out. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
That's not what I meant (not sure about others), what I mean is that every King and Emperor would have a palace. If they lose their King/Emperor title then the palace is either destroyed or passes to the new King/Emperor. Basically the idea is that the palace would provide various specific bonuses e.g. you could expand a palace chapel for some small monthly piety, or build a garrison for a small bonus to retinue size, or some other building for a small monthly prestige gain, or for a small bonus to attack/defence/whatever of all personal levies, etc.
You'd grow soft from all the pillows and become useless as a levy, no way!
Looks very much like that Keep upgrade in a holding, you know. While the Italian towers belonging to various patrician families (noble burghers, essentially) are somewhat unique, as in hard to come by outside Italy, a big tower is just a big tower: a piece of fortified living residence/strong point of resistance.
Bah, destroy it anyway... who wants to live in some "almost as new" second-hand palace....
My point was that the city holding of a partician family could in some cases be a fortified keep.
Sorry. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. There's reason those were stone towers and not porcelain domes (which some of those guys would've been able to afford). +1 to your suggestion then