Martinus
Emperor
In terms of wonders, I think the culture victory is the one that has undergone the biggest overhaul, due to a number of reasons:
- the wonders generating "passive" great artist points are gone,
- culture generation plays a much smaller role in achieving cultural victory,
- great artists, writers and musicians are generated in separate pools, so the problem with "contaminating" your great artist generation with wonders that give engineer, merchant or scientist points is gone,
- faith, while still desirable, stopped being so closely related to the cultural victory, partially due to Piety no longer being the "culture" tree,
- several wonders having their special abilities changed,
- wonders with multiple great work slots are the priority due to theming bonuses,
- wonders which give bonuses to specialists become less important, as you are only required to run 6 specialists (2 per guild) in your entire empire.
So here is my subjective proposal of the new list of great wonders one should be trying to get when playing for a culture victory:
- Broadway
- Eiffel Tower
- Globe Theatre
- Louvre
- Parthenon
- Sistine Chapel
- Sydney Opera House
- Uffizi
- Leaning Tower of Pisa (for great person generation bonus)
- Great Library (for 2 literature slots, which are both rare, and extra rare when it comes to theming bonuses)
- Hanging Garden (added for the free garden in addition to the passive bonus)
Would you add/substract any?
- the wonders generating "passive" great artist points are gone,
- culture generation plays a much smaller role in achieving cultural victory,
- great artists, writers and musicians are generated in separate pools, so the problem with "contaminating" your great artist generation with wonders that give engineer, merchant or scientist points is gone,
- faith, while still desirable, stopped being so closely related to the cultural victory, partially due to Piety no longer being the "culture" tree,
- several wonders having their special abilities changed,
- wonders with multiple great work slots are the priority due to theming bonuses,
- wonders which give bonuses to specialists become less important, as you are only required to run 6 specialists (2 per guild) in your entire empire.
So here is my subjective proposal of the new list of great wonders one should be trying to get when playing for a culture victory:
- Broadway
- Eiffel Tower
- Globe Theatre
- Louvre
- Parthenon
- Sistine Chapel
- Sydney Opera House
- Uffizi
- Leaning Tower of Pisa (for great person generation bonus)
- Great Library (for 2 literature slots, which are both rare, and extra rare when it comes to theming bonuses)
- Hanging Garden (added for the free garden in addition to the passive bonus)
Would you add/substract any?