Free tech or Wonder?

[JudgeDeath]

This bit about obelisk is very good news for me, I was avoiding them. (foolishly, it appears.)

Carry on avoiding them. Chop-rush Stonehenge instead.

 

[TBox]

Carry on avoiding them. Chop-rush Stonehenge instead.

You know, it's strange. I'm utterly crushed on the Wonder front. I don't play industrious, and I've yet to start near enough to stone, marble, or copper to snag them before the opposition, but I don't think that's my problem. I'm usually so busy snagging territory and trying to keep up with the AI's addictive unit production without sacrificing my builder ideals of, y'know, actually *having* city improvements that I can't figure out when to start building a wonder. With or without chop. When I do attempt a wonder, it's almost always converted to cash.

I also tend to focus on tech lines that neatly dodge any wonder providing tech, although that's entirely unfamiliarity with the tech tree that I hope to grow out of.

And they always seem like they expire so soon, it's hard for me to get excited about them.

 

[Artanis]

No, the culture and ability to build missionaries from that city remain, but the science bonus is made obsolete. So you might want to avoid Sci Method for a while, in order to get the most out of your monastaries.

I stand corrected. Many thanks

You know, it's strange. I'm utterly crushed on the Wonder front. I don't play industrious, and I've yet to start near enough to stone, marble, or copper to snag them before the opposition, but I don't think that's my problem. I'm usually so busy snagging territory and trying to keep up with the AI's addictive unit production without sacrificing my builder ideals of, y'know, actually *having* city improvements that I can't figure out when to start building a wonder. With or without chop. When I do attempt a wonder, it's almost always converted to cash.

I also have a hard time getting hyped over Wonders. Sure, they're nifty, but while I'm building a Wonder, I'm also not building other things, like soldiers and settlers.

I also see all kinds of posts about how Wonders - especially the early ones - are virtually impossible to get on higher difficulties, and how even having everything in your favor only makes it a 50/50 coin flip. Since people are actually winning on those Wonders-are-impossible-to-get difficulties, I fail to see how Wonders are "critical" on the difficulties where they can be reliably built every game.

Personally, I feel that wonders are pretty well-balanced. Even the weakest Wonders are a big boost, but even the most powerful Wonders are nowhere near an "I Win" button

 

[CivCorpse]

I usually save engineers for three gorges dam and statue of liberty