Viability of Ancient/Classical Wonders on Deity

LoneRebel said:

But I thought that getting to Writing ASAP (and Philosophy after that) was the optimal strategy for any civ? Was I mistaken?

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I'm not really sure tbh. I tend to take the techs that let me improve my surrounding tiles the most initially. I don't see Writing as particularly useful if your capital and cities are too small to make use of it.
I get it that the early NC is advantageous but I almost never mine built before turn 100.
I'd rather get my workers improving luxuries so I can sell them off and maybe chop forest to get an early trade route. Early gold can always buy a library later if I need.
I find if I prioritise growth and focus on getting 4-5 cities out and an early military to fend off any aggressive neighbours I can catch up on science by the Renaissance with spies if I need.

LoneRebel said:

But I thought that getting to Writing ASAP (and Philosophy after that) was the optimal strategy for any civ? Was I mistaken?

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You are mistaken. Nearby lux tech before writing, animal handling too, since selling horses is good early gold.

Seems we've reached a consensus, more or less. As for which post-classical wonders are viable I'd like to say all of them, but TBH I've never actually gotten Chichen Itza or Alhambra.

beetle said:

You are mistaken. Nearby lux tech before writing, animal handling too, since selling horses is good early gold.

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I figured as much, since that is what I usually do in my actual games. What I mentioned earlier is what I thought was the optimal strategy, however I do not actually do it myself since I don't want to be simply optimizing all the time. Good to learn that I wasn't using such a suboptimal tech path after all.