Worst wonder?

What is the worst world wonder?

  • Angkor Wat

    Votes: 24 4.6%
  • Broadway

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Chichen Itza

    Votes: 181 34.8%
  • Cristo Redentor

    Votes: 18 3.5%
  • Hollywood

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Mausoleum of Maussollos

    Votes: 9 1.7%
  • Notre Dame

    Votes: 1 0.2%
  • Rock 'n' Roll

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Shwedagon Paya

    Votes: 25 4.8%
  • Stonehenge

    Votes: 6 1.2%
  • The Colossus

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Eiffel Tower

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • The Hagia Sophia

    Votes: 36 6.9%
  • The Hanging Gardens

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The Parthenon

    Votes: 1 0.2%
  • The Pentagon

    Votes: 5 1.0%
  • The Space Elevator

    Votes: 113 21.7%
  • The Spiral Minaret

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • The Statue of Zeus

    Votes: 11 2.1%
  • The Taj Mahal

    Votes: 7 1.3%
  • The Temple of Artemis

    Votes: 10 1.9%
  • The Three Gorges Dam

    Votes: 3 0.6%
  • University of Sankore

    Votes: 4 0.8%
  • Versailles

    Votes: 12 2.3%
  • The Internet

    Votes: 44 8.5%

  • Total voters
    520
btw, Spiral Minaret is really awesome for Arabia to build in Rhyse and Fall ... xD

every conquered city starts to produce an extra 4 gold per turn! (free temple + cathedral)
 
It is often good, it brings in more gold than an average Shrine. It does depend on the civics being run though, and the enabling tech is far from ideal. And it obsoletes later on, a shame.
 
The AIs (especially the religious nuts like Isabella) seem to love the minaret. I hardly ever got it, because they get to the tech first, won't trade and got for the minaret quickly.
 
Absolutely true. Isabella or any leader that likes to found a religion and doesn't have one yet will head quickly to Divine Right and hog the wonder. Then there are those Industrious leaders with Stone who get DR late but still finish the wonder before anyone else.
 
btw, Spiral Minaret is really awesome for Arabia to build in Rhyse and Fall ... xD

every conquered city starts to produce an extra 4 gold per turn! (free temple + cathedral)

Oh yes, I remember Arabia in RFC. University of Sankore is nice in RFC as well and the shrines are limited in gold production. Spiral Minaret keeps the economy afloat. I often like the religious wonders. You can make temples a powerhouse building with 2 hammers, 2 GPT and 2 beakers per turn.

Getting to the wonder first in BTS is a bit of a problem. The AI likes Divine Right (it wants to found religions). I love Izzy as a neighbor but she's often competition to ghet the wonder. However, if you're in her religion she's often Friendly and so will trade Divine Right to you.

I think about 2/3 of players love Izzy as a neighbor, the other 1/3 hate her.
 
Do you know what? I'm going to say AW is worse than CI.

Both cost the same to build (aside - AW coming a bit later means hammers are more available due to workshops and higher happy caps). Both are on the same tech ladder. Both have a mediocre effect.

CI means newly captured cities have some defence just for existing without having to whip Walls or run CS to border pop. That's not much for 500 hammers, but it's better than +1 hammer per Priest. If I want hammers at expense of population growth, I'll mine. If my need for GPT is so great I'm running specialists, I'll run CS merchants. I run Priests for one reason: to generate GP's. If I'm desperate enough for GPP that Wonders are an attractive source, I can get CI earlier than AW. Sure, AW lets me shotgun the GP with three Priests, but once I've bulbed Theo or built a Shrine, what am I going to use those slots for? Extra GPs after that are pretty much GA-fodder, most other people are more useful.

Also - does the +25% per city influence the Power graph at all? If it can scarecrow Monty et al, then the 'just build axes instead' wisdom has to bear in mind upkeep on the units - especially if we're running Pacifism.)
 
I can't believe anyone voted for the Internet.

HOWEVER . . . when I first started playing (and for a while, actually) I thought it was that once any 2 civs got a technology that EVERY civ got that technology.

That would indeed be pretty bad.

Chicken Pizza FTL.
 
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