Wait, people overrate the Terracotta Army?!Now build Terrocota Army, so I get a second Samurai... - The other frequently mentioned overrated Wonder
Most overrated is the Pyramids. The wonder costs more hammers than the "2 free workers" it provides.
I disagree strongly. When playing Immortal/deity this is anything but overrated. The AI doesn't prioritize this so in games when I'm behind on high difficulty levels, I use this to slingshot me back into the game for a science victory.
Not a lot of Love for the GL, but what if you are "Japan"
I always blow by my ruins...Protect them as best I can, even if it means going to war!
Go Hard for GL, then take Iron Working (And normally settle 2nd city on "Iron" Resource)
Build quick swordsman, and hit all those ruins - Hopefully get a "Samurai"
Now I don't have to build any fishing boats, and it is only Turn 50 or so....Can't tell me...It's Overrated!!
Now build Terrocota Army, so I get a second Samurai... - The other frequently mentioned overrated Wonder
You can capture Big Ben and still get its use, but not so much with Brandenburg.
I think Big Ben is better captured.
For Autocracy, Big Ben is the difference between buying at 27% or 42% of base cost. Like the combination with Merchantilism and Skyscrapers, this is almost an effective doubling of the value of your coin.
No, it doesn't lay it to rest, because after all that all you did was buff Big Ben from 15% to 36%. Okay, so you cut your break-even point in half.
Great Firewall. And I say that with no great knowledge of who thinks it is great, but it comes so late that thieving a tech is going to take another CIV so long the spies are better used elsewhere.
Denies Internet tourism bonus. That can stave off someone's CV for a good long while - preventing the player who built it (and all the others, I guess) from losing the game.
Anyway, it's hardly overrated as there aren't really scores of people lining up to sing its praises.
What annoys me so much about Great Firewall - and I occasionally built it, if my tech path brings me by it, just because I can and because I hate AIs stealing techs so much - is that it doesn't really seem to work. I mean, it's supposed to reduce spy rate by something like 99.9 %, yet still I have had AIs steal multiple techs from me after I build it. As in, repeatedly stealing techs, the same AI, from the city with Great Firewall. How's that even possible?Great Firewall. And I say that with no great knowledge of who thinks it is great, but it comes so late that thieving a tech is going to take another CIV so long the spies are better used elsewhere.