My humble opinion the financial great person is the by far the biggest influence on a game - if you can get a (or more) coin houses going all else will crumble
The benefits the Great Leader gives are awesome but anything the Great Builder can do can be bought. I rarely get a Great Leader so can not really evaluate their game changing influence.
The benefits the Great Leader gives are awesome but anything the Great Builder can do can be bought. I rarely get a Great Leader so can not really evaluate their game changing influence.
To build on that, all great persons are linked to a tech. When you have researched the tech they relate to you increase the likelihood of that great person appearing when you get your next great person. The Great Person likelihood is put in a "queue" so the tech you research first has a higher likelihood of giving you its great person than a later tech.
In short, focus on getting iron working or monarchy early in the game to get one of the two great leaders.
The benefits the Great Leader gives are awesome but anything the Great Builder can do can be bought. I rarely get a Great Leader so can not really evaluate their game changing influence.
Sure, wonders can be bought, but they're extremely expensive, and that's a lot of gold that can be spent on something else instead of a wonder if you get the wonder for free from a builder.
Thanks, that explains a lot - I normally go Alphabet - Writing - CoL which explians why I get, in my mind, the worst great person (Artist/Thinker) more often than not.
A builder I find gives me a more significant gold increase most of the time.
Humanitarian is a giant boost if I have multiple cities. I do not often get them when they are best settled for some reason.
An artist will not only increase my production but subtract from an opponents. Early game they can steal wonders.
A scientist early on gives me more great people through teching first most of the time so I will have my gold eventually plus more powerfull units and.or larger cities.
Great Leaders=win.
I do play with all packs so that might make a large difference.
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