Are there any wonders you consider worth building after antiquity

[Disgustipated]

I find myself skipping so many of the wonders. I really feel like wonders are lackluster in this game. But perhaps I am missing some gamechanging ones? Are there any? What exploration and modern era wonders do you consider to be "worth it"? I know Oxford is pretty good, but so expensive to build. I built it my most recent game, but really didn't need to. So many wonders just seem to be vanity projects that don't offer substantial returns. But maybe I'm missing something.

 

[Calcifer]

Notre Dame is by far my favourite exploration wonder, I always try to go for it as I think it has a very strong effect.

Machu Pichu would be good but unfortunately is still bugged, I hope it will be fixed eventually. I sometimes use it to cross a mountain range and be able to build on the other side.

Borobudur is also quite good but I usually give priority to Notre Dame.

EDIT: regarding Modern ones, the age goes so fast that I mostly build wonders if I have excess production to build up foundation challenges.

 

[uppi]

Machu Pichu would be good but unfortunately is still bugged, I hope it will be fixed eventually. I sometimes use it to cross a mountain range and be able to build on the other side.

Yes, it behaves oddly, but it still can give you insane yields. In a good spot, it can give you the Exploration legacy path pretty much on its own. It is absolutely worth building every time you can.

I like El Escorial, but that might just be my unhealthy addiction to settlement limit increases.

House of Wisdom and Rilah monastery are also very good, but they are hard to get on Deity, because the AI loves them.

In general, though, wonders are only about twice as expensive as regular buildings and give you adjacent bonuses. In my opinion, they are always worth building, even without their special bonuses - if you can get them, of course.

In modern, this is a bit less true, because even though they would probably pay off in the long run, modern tends to have no long run.

 

[Leucarum]

I like Boudanath in modern. It can stabilize your diplomatic situation if you are just pushing for a peaceful victory and want to be left alone.

 

[disjointaccount]

Rila Monastery - nice extra source of relics and can be fun to see how many you can get from a big conquest game
House of Wisdom - fantastic for culture paths in explo and modern
Tomb of Askia - lots of free money and production
Borobodur - probably the single best wonder for specialist upkeep in the game
Shwedagon Zedi Daw - free wildcard point
Machu Pichu - nice yields from a tile you weren't ever using anyway
Notre dame - massive amounts of culture
Erdene Zuu - niche but can let you bank quite a few wildcard points at the end of the age if you were shift+entering

Only one I ever build in modern is Oxford. Two free techs is typically worth the investment, I find. Other wonders just don't justify a reason to spend time on them instead of just directly chasing the win, imo.

Those are the ones I'll typically be considering building depending on my game. Any others are just bonuses for adjacencies in cities that aren't doing anything.

 

[Lord Lakely]

Rila is the important one. A relic for every wonder you build allows you to skip most of the game's religion mechanics altogether.

I like the Hawaiian wonder as well, but the only time I've gotten that one is when I rushed Inspiration.

 

[evonannoredars]

Tomb of Askia is very fun, whenever I build it I usually end up putting all my resources into that settlement. A lot of the other nice ones (Machu Pikchu, House of Wisdom, a well-placed El Escorial) are hard to get before the AI does. House of Wisdom in particular I swear is always gone insanely quickly.

 

[Boris Gudenuf]

Tomb of Askia is very fun, whenever I build it I usually end up putting all my resources into that settlement. A lot of the other nice ones (Machu Pikchu, House of Wisdom, a well-placed El Escorial) are hard to get before the AI does. House of Wisdom in particular I swear is always gone insanely quickly.

In fact, of the first two mentioned, I find that I can almost always get Machu Pichu if I want it, but getting House of Wisdom requires subordinating everything else I do in the Age to the purpose, and then missing out over half the time: I swear the AI Civs Beeline that Wonder in every single game, no matter what Leader/Civ combination they are.

 

[tedhebert]

Just built Machu Pikchu in a Pachacuti game, man the yields around it were glorious ! But I play on immortaL, not deity, and I was playing Inca so my civics allowed me to get access to it fast

In explo, it alone gave me 4 out of 5 40+ yield tiles for the science path !

 

[sixty4half]

Serpent Mound is great if you had UIs in both antiquity and exploration, or even just in Exploration if you plan for it. Forbidden city is good if you played Han in Antiquity or Ming/Normans in Exploration (or both).

Now, if you can get both in the same city.... chef's kiss