notyourtypical
Warlord
- Joined
- Jul 22, 2013
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- 119
new one...Temple of Athemis. It suffers Great Library syndrome. As in, it costs too much early to build, and not guaranteed, and limiting growth for the first 100 turns isn't going to pay off in the end. If you want more growth, focus on growth. I'll throw the Hanging Gardens in this mix as well.
It's pretty much guaranteed on anything but deity. You may need a forest to chop on immortal, but you want that just to free the queue sooner. I will invest 15 turns at the beginning to get +1 food per 8 in every city. Further, unless you are super quick to education (turn 100), the temple will give you a great engineer around turn 130, as you are unlocking printing press or banking.
Hanging gardens is situational. Playing science or culture but have a non freshwater capital? You want it because it's the only way to get a garden. Got a river coast start? Skip it and build the colossus, and use the ship to send food to your capital.