Breaking down the Constitution Policy

[shozum]

Quick question and hopefully someone knows this off-hand but do you get the culture bonus from the freedom tree policy Constitution (wonder in city = +100% culture for that city) for having a national wonder in the city or does it require a world wonder? What about a natural wonder?

Doing some figures and strategic planning in my head for the multiplayer game I'm in at the moment and I couldn't remember if I had ever taken a peeksy to see if these wonders types applied.

 

[shozum]

Gonna bump this one time just to see if I get any answers. If not, I'll find out tonight when I get home and get a chance to test it myself.

 

[stormerne]

The manual specifically states:

• Policy name: Constitution
• Branch: Freedom
• Required Era: Renaissance Era
• Required Policies: None
• Effect: Culture doubled in all Cities with a World Wonder

The manual has been shown to be wrong before now but, unless it is in this case, it answers your question.

 

[ChazzieDC]

It only works with World Wonders, National Wonders do not count.

 

[shozum]

Wonderful! I'll test it with natural and national wonders later this week then and just assume for now that the manual is correct. Thanks to you both!

 

[Izmir Stinger]

The city screen tooltip also confirms that the bonus is applied do to the presence of "World" wonders. It is hard to be consistently wrong in a bunch of different places. Though I wouldn't put it past this game.

 

[bryanw1995]

no, I've inadvertently tested it before. you definitely do not get the bonus from national wonders (unless a subsequent patch has broken it of course). I don't remember ever checking it with natural wonders, however.

btw, I love that policy on emperor or lower games. you get a very large culture boost relatively early-on. unfortunately, I've usually already won the game when it comes into play on easier difficulties unless I'm going for a cultural victory, and it's not reasonable to expect lots of wonders on immortal + games unless you're playing very few civs/small maps.

 

[alpaca]

no, I've inadvertently tested it before. you definitely do not get the bonus from national wonders (unless a subsequent patch has broken it of course). I don't remember ever checking it with natural wonders, however.

btw, I love that policy on emperor or lower games. you get a very large culture boost relatively early-on. unfortunately, I've usually already won the game when it comes into play on easier difficulties unless I'm going for a cultural victory, and it's not reasonable to expect lots of wonders on immortal + games unless you're playing very few civs/small maps.

Well you can always conquer them from the AI if you find out where they are

 

[bryanw1995]

haha, yeah I did that on a cultural mongol victory. only settled one city, but had a LOT of puppets. ended up annexing 6 cities with wonders. I think it only took 10 turns to get my 30th sp