Most overrated World Wonder?

fallout3dc

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What in your opinion is the most overrated World Wonders? Mine would probably be Great Library and Porcelain Tower. 50% more from research agreements? yay...
 
I think statue of liberty is overrated... Not everyone needs to be a specialist.
 
The Gret Library. Unless you have a 5 salt start, you are probably crippling yourself by dedicating so many early hammers for it.
 
What in your opinion is the most overrated World Wonders? Mine would probably be Great Library and Porcelain Tower. 50% more from research agreements? yay...

GL is awesome - you just need good dirt, so you don't have to sacrifice growth for it.
PT gives you a free GS. Its good even if you don't do RA's. And it was awesome before the fall patch, as RA's were actually useful ... Its one of the easier wonders to get in your sattelite cities when u are going for CV.

The most overrated wonders in my eyes are Statue of Zeus and the Great Lighthouse.
 
Borobodur must be high up in overrated Wonders. Three missionaries? Woo. Never been a big fan of Stonehenge neither.
 
If you can actually reliably get Stonehenge you basically guarantee yourself a religion on Deity so long as it's at least a Large map (talking about the number of religins available)

Borbodour gives extra FPT and the three missionaries can spread your religion like wildfire. You would be hard pressed to get 3 missionaries before mid Renessaunce even if you go Piety, especially if you have a religious buildng.

Also, you guys don't seem to get what overrated means. Statue of Zeus and the Great Lighthouse are not overrated. Barely anyone even talks about them and Deity AI usually don't prioritize them.

The GL IS overrated because so many people whine about it when they first start playing Immortal/Deity. Having "good dirt" is putting it mildly. The hammer cost and the need to finish it before turn 35 to even have a shot on Deity makes it VERY overrated. 1 free tech that later on would cost you 1 turn to research? No thanks.
 
I don't know who is talking about Gl on deity ... It goes before T30 inmy games and at this time you rarely even have writing ....Still it very good on emp and below. Compared to GLighthouse its fantastic.
 
I think the Great Lighthouse is underrated, with it and unlocking exploration your caravels can see 6 tiles which is quite a bit of extra area. It's possible to have the whole map revealed in the Renaissance era with this combo.
The most overrated wonder is prolly the Great Library as building this means you only have 1 city when you should be in the process of founding your 3 city.
 
I usually play on king and that is where the GL will be important because you can built nc right after and after that your tech lead will be growing bigger and bigger my whole strategy is based around the GL and gets me atleast 80% of the world wonders. However I do agree it is useless on Immortal and Deity because you will never get it. The most overrated wonder in my opinion is the porcelain tower, one gs doesn't really matter at this point of the game and research agreements are rare as everybody tries to rip you off.
 
I'll throw in another vote for Stonehenge. A lot of people seem to love it, but I very, very, very, very rarely have the desire to build it. I seem to do just fine getting a religion without it (but I don't play on Deity). Actually, put one more "very" in there.
 
Most overrated is the Pyramids. The wonder costs more hammers than the "2 free workers" it provides.
 
Stonehenge is actually the ONLY way for you to keep non faith pantheons unless you are lucky to find religious Cs and they ask for some simple quests. Some non faith pantheons are so good that it is worth the hammers for stonehenge.
 
I also have to note that I never play Deity. Pyramids also provide +25 % speed for Workers, which I guess adds to the bonus inherent in the Liberty tree, which to me seems significant. In other words, it's more than just two Workers. Going from 12 to 9 (or 6 with the Liberty Social Policy) turns to build a Plantation on Jungle is quite nice.
 
Yeah, I wouldn't call the pyramids overrated. If you have the economy to support it, then with the policy in liberty for a free worker you construct things in half the time. With three workers, you can mega improve all your cities incredibly quick. Pyramids are super useful for the wide game.
 
Also the Great Pyramid gives you a GE point and a point of culture (it's not much, but early in the game it's helpful). And the faster workers can repair a pillaged tile in 1 turn, so you can bring a worker along on the front lines of a city siege - If a melee unit gets hit, have him pillage for health, use the worker to repair, and then next turn you can pillage again.
 
Went through the list. These are the Wonders I never build:

Terracotta Army
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
Angkor Wat (The worst)
Red Fort
Prora
CN Tower
Pentagon
 
Stonehenge is actually the ONLY way for you to keep non faith pantheons unless you are lucky to find religious Cs and they ask for some simple quests. Some non faith pantheons are so good that it is worth the hammers for stonehenge.

that's not true. You can build HG - same effect but way better spot on the tech tree and you get religion immediately. And quite easier to get than stonehendge too - ai that founded religion prefer borobodur and great mosque ...
 
that's not true. You can build HG - same effect but way better spot on the tech tree and you get religion immediately. And quite easier to get than stonehendge too - ai that founded religion prefer borobodur and great mosque ...

I guess you mean HS (Hagia Sofia), not HG (Hanging Gardens). Actually, I may agree with Angkor Wat. I usually never build that one. Red Fort is also highly situational. But Terracotta Army, provided the AI doesn't build it first, is very good for early warmongering - just keep five-six unit types at hand and get a whole extra army.
 
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