Chinese Stonehenge - Sacred Places?

[monikernemo]

Just wondering if the founder belief sacred places makes Stonehenge less gimmicky for China. Coupled with divine inspiration followers belief, the hypothetical yield of stonehenge escalates to 8 faith per turn, 2 sci 2 culture 2 gold, which is pretty strong on paper this early into the game.

The problem with early Stonehenge is that one has to follow up with holy site to buy missionaries to spread religion.

Sacred places also weakens apadana since you would want your early wonders to be spread out rather than concentrated at the capital.

Thoughts?

 

[Jewman]

this is interesting. Its a super strong bonus right away but it falls off too quickly I think. I guess the main problem is that if you grab an early religion why would you not go for feed the world or choral music? I just finished a khmer game with feed the world and obviously the synergies are super strong between those two but feed the world was absolutely bonkers.

I also saw someone on reddit post a screenshot of his chinese arctic colony cities completely surrounded by a circle of great walls and up to 7 pop from feed the world holy sites. Looks like that would be much better than some early yields in your capital.

 

[monikernemo]

China doesn't need culture since great wall can supplement culture later on. Furthermore china cannot spam holy sites as well as say, Russia or Japan. under this strategy I foresee building at most two holy sites.

Divine Inspiration makes up for not building holy sites. 4 faith per wonder is quite decent early on, which can help you purchase more builders for wonder rushing. Perhaps Stonehenge is a high risk play since potentially it may set you back. But generally, I think Sacred places may be an interesting option for china.

 

[monikernemo]

First met Nazca and managed to get religious settlement and settled 3 cities early on.

Posted some early game stats, Sacred Places contributes to 6 sci, 6 culture, 6 faith and 6 gold.
52 faith per turn is decent for china at this stage of the game. 10 faith comes from 10 great prophet points per turn due to having Pingala (Grants) and Oracle.
Free builder from goody hut helps me get stonehenge quickly. Sci/Culture yields are roughly matching most of the AIs, but I think the AIs are not doing so well this game.
Pingala promotion: Conoisseur and Grants.
Magnus no promotions.
Religious Belief: Divine Inspiration (to fund my builders), Sacred Places

The map type is fractal.

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Monumentality GA allows me to purchase builders with faith and rush oracle and pyramids. In autocracy with corvee so + 25% to wonders.
Expansion is on the slower side, havent finished building AH, only 4 cities.
But I reckon I should have built the campus in Guangzhou earlier, so I can get great library
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Don't really think sacred places is worth it for other civs (I expect only China to be able to rush wonders quickly in parallel) , I think the early boosts should fall off quickly by early Medieval. Will be trying another game, too claustrophobic for my liking.