Capturing small wonders

Ok - so I added some small wonders to my game.

Oriental Trading Company; a small wonder that produces a ship of the lines every 5 turns....
So I invate the Persians with the city that I know has their OTC.
I capture the city, but the OTC is demolished.
Sure. It's a small wonder, and they are demolished with capturing. "maybe it was another city!" I hear you say.
Could be, Sherlock, but I have captured all their cities, razes none and still didn't see their OTC. A ship of the line is only built by the Small Wonder.

P: they had a SotL.
C: therefore: they had an OTC.
P: I captured all their cities.
P: I didn't capture their OTC
C: the OTC is demolished upon capturing.

Now then...

Circus Maximus: only under a republic can you build this (like the Secret Police HQ and communism).
So I build one. Yay.

I invade the french. Yay.
I capture their Circus Maximus. Yay... wait. Huh?

Why isn't this wonder demolished upon capturing?
Is there someone who knows how this works?

Small Wonders, like Improvements are destroyed if they have a cultural value >0. Does the Oriental Trading Company have culture and the Circus Maximus doesn't?

Laurana Kanan said:

Small Wonders, like Improvements are destroyed if they have a cultural value >0. Does the Oriental Trading Company have culture and the Circus Maximus doesn't?

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Yes and yes.

Ah so that's it, I didn't know that applied to (small) wonders too. I thought small wonders were destroyed nontheless.
So that's stupid. It means an Iron Works is also destroyed.

So I just need figure out if I want it to survive a capture before I assign culture bonusses to a building.

thanks.

Thanks, this is interesting, especially for unit producing small wonders.

Getting an additional Destroyer Shipyard for example can do some shift in power.

I think, that I will remove the culture points from most small wonders, that give units (several shipyards) or production bonus (Great Ironworks).

I think, that I will remove the culture points from most small wonders, that give units (several shipyards) or production bonus (Great Ironworks).

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Are you sure? I thought you played a bit like me, no victory conditions. If so, wouldn't it be fun if a civ gained a second powerful unit-producing wonder, and you had to deal with that?

I may even make a unit producing small wonder that allows a civ to make a unit producing great wonder, just so one civ can have a power advantage with that particular unit. Destroyers or tanks would be great options.

I also seem to recall that:

• If the SW is marked "Allows City Size Level 2 or 3" it will stay regardless of culture.
• If the Civ hasn't researched the tech that allows the SW it will be destroyed (or maybe it just disappears until the tech's researched). I think this also would apply to government type as well.

*I could be remembering this incorrectly, however...