Is there any sort of gallery which features images of wonders (in the city) and wonders being constructed? If not, I think it would be a useful resource to have on this website.
I'm not very good with screenshots, otherwise I'd do it myself!
One thing I like about Civ V is that you can see on the normal map what wonders foreign cities are in the middle of building. Once you have discovered the city, you can see this even if you don't have an active unit in the area (though make sure you clear up all the black spots since a wonder might be in a portion of the city that you can't see). Often, I like to scout out the other players' territory early so I can keep track of what they are building (especially useful to know if you need to rush with a GE or forest chopping). I read that in G&K, embassies will let you know what wonders are being worked on, so I don't know if they will change being able to see it on the map as well.
It's also nice to see what the wonders look like when completed. At least, you can figure out which city the wonder was built in.
In Civ IV, getting intel was hard (you could use spies to view a particular city's production). I did really like the wonder movies in Civ IV - they are far better than the screenshots in Civ V. I also liked how the city views in Civ IV included buildings - back then, I could identify every single building and wonder in an enemy city just by zooming in and looking at the pictures. (Though I found there was typically only enough room to show about 20 or so buildings). Speaking of Civ IV, the one wonder I was *never* able to get to show up as an image was Hollywood - anyone else have that problem?
On a different note, I also really liked the city viewscreen they had in Civ III.
In Civ V, I normally play with Ancient starts and I do lots of Wonder building and I've found that the screen maxes out at about 12 or so wonders being visually displayed, so by the time I get to the later (Renaissance and later) wonders, I often don't get to see images of them (under construction or finished).
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COMPLETED WONDERS
A. Very distinctive (in unusual places):
Colossus (water)
Great Lighthouse (water)
The Great Wall (surrounding cultural borders)
Machu Picchu (on top of mountain)
Sydney Opera House (water)
B. Distinctive in appearance (your experience may vary):
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
Stonehenge
The Great Library
The Pyramids
The Hanging Gardens
The Oracle
Chichen Itza
Hagia Sophia
Himeji Castle
The Porcelein Tower
Taj Mahal
The Forbidden Palace
Statue of Liberty
Cristo Redeemer (small)
Eiffel Tower (small)
C. Average:
Statue of Zeus
Angkor Wat
Notre Dame (distinctive, but small)
Sistine Chapel (distinctive, but small)
D. Hard to identify:
Temple of Artemis
Big Ben
Brandenburg Gate
The Kremlin (small, and hard because it focuses more on the palace than St Basil's)
The Louvre
The Pentagon (there are other buildings that look similar)
United Nations (small, but look for the flags)
Some notes I've found on Wonders under Construction:
- The Great Wall is a wonder that you can *not* see other players building. (When you build it, you gradually see the Wall along your borders, but you don't see it for other players until it is completed).
- Stonehenge can be hard to see sometimes.
- Mausoleum, Statue of Zeus, and Temple of Artemis can be confusing together.
- I often get Himeji Castle and Angkor Wat confused (usually the AI tends to prefer Himeji though). Sometimes I'm worried it's Hagia Sophia, but AI rarely builds it.
I'm not very good with screenshots, otherwise I'd do it myself!
One thing I like about Civ V is that you can see on the normal map what wonders foreign cities are in the middle of building. Once you have discovered the city, you can see this even if you don't have an active unit in the area (though make sure you clear up all the black spots since a wonder might be in a portion of the city that you can't see). Often, I like to scout out the other players' territory early so I can keep track of what they are building (especially useful to know if you need to rush with a GE or forest chopping). I read that in G&K, embassies will let you know what wonders are being worked on, so I don't know if they will change being able to see it on the map as well.
It's also nice to see what the wonders look like when completed. At least, you can figure out which city the wonder was built in.
In Civ IV, getting intel was hard (you could use spies to view a particular city's production). I did really like the wonder movies in Civ IV - they are far better than the screenshots in Civ V. I also liked how the city views in Civ IV included buildings - back then, I could identify every single building and wonder in an enemy city just by zooming in and looking at the pictures. (Though I found there was typically only enough room to show about 20 or so buildings). Speaking of Civ IV, the one wonder I was *never* able to get to show up as an image was Hollywood - anyone else have that problem?
On a different note, I also really liked the city viewscreen they had in Civ III.
In Civ V, I normally play with Ancient starts and I do lots of Wonder building and I've found that the screen maxes out at about 12 or so wonders being visually displayed, so by the time I get to the later (Renaissance and later) wonders, I often don't get to see images of them (under construction or finished).
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COMPLETED WONDERS
A. Very distinctive (in unusual places):
Colossus (water)
Great Lighthouse (water)
The Great Wall (surrounding cultural borders)
Machu Picchu (on top of mountain)
Sydney Opera House (water)
B. Distinctive in appearance (your experience may vary):
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
Stonehenge
The Great Library
The Pyramids
The Hanging Gardens
The Oracle
Chichen Itza
Hagia Sophia
Himeji Castle
The Porcelein Tower
Taj Mahal
The Forbidden Palace
Statue of Liberty
Cristo Redeemer (small)
Eiffel Tower (small)
C. Average:
Statue of Zeus
Angkor Wat
Notre Dame (distinctive, but small)
Sistine Chapel (distinctive, but small)
D. Hard to identify:
Temple of Artemis
Big Ben
Brandenburg Gate
The Kremlin (small, and hard because it focuses more on the palace than St Basil's)
The Louvre
The Pentagon (there are other buildings that look similar)
United Nations (small, but look for the flags)
Some notes I've found on Wonders under Construction:
- The Great Wall is a wonder that you can *not* see other players building. (When you build it, you gradually see the Wall along your borders, but you don't see it for other players until it is completed).
- Stonehenge can be hard to see sometimes.
- Mausoleum, Statue of Zeus, and Temple of Artemis can be confusing together.
- I often get Himeji Castle and Angkor Wat confused (usually the AI tends to prefer Himeji though). Sometimes I'm worried it's Hagia Sophia, but AI rarely builds it.
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