Great Wonders Elimination Thread

At this point, I'm more inclined to downvote more specific types of wonders, and upvote more generalist ones.

Oracle [25] 24+1 - A great person boost to whatever districts you build in the city, and stacks well with Pingala (and Bologna, and the second(?) tier cultural alliance)

Eiffel Tower [14] 17-3 - Definitely has it's uses: great for Appeal-based cultural victory strategies, and BM Teddy, Australia. Comes a little late for the faith boost from earth goddess imho. But that's about the extent of it. I wish the appeal mechanic had been put to more use the game, but it's still a pretty limited mechanic.


Apadana [9]
Big Ben [21]
Bolshoi Theatre [8]
Colosseum [14]
Cristo Redentor [13]
Eiffel Tower [14]
Forbidden City [23]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [6]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [8]
Petra [12]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [26]
Ruhr Valley [9]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [7]
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
Apadana [9]
Big Ben [21]
Bolshoi Theatre [8]
Colosseum [15] (14 +1)
AI seems to forgo Colosseum these days. While the opportunity cost is great, an early Colosseum can see you not worry about culture output for at least in the early game.
Cristo Redentor [13]
Eiffel Tower [14]
Forbidden City [23]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [6]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [8]
Petra [9] (12 - 3) you want your early cities to be very productive without wonders, so what makes Petra bad not as good is the opportunity cost of settling in a low production city early on in the game.
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [26]
Ruhr Valley [9]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [7]
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
For the record, I think we may need a wonder difficulty thread in the future, to discuss which wonders are more likely to be rushed by AI and which are not. I have seen arguments like Casa/Colosseum are hard to get, or Kilwa/Broadway are not prioritized by AI; but counter-examples also shown up from time to time.* It seems only on Stonehenge/Great Bath/Pyramids/Machu Picchu/Mausoleum can we reach a consensus.

*My personal experience is AI are no likely to rush Casa/Colosseum, but have a moderate priority for Kilwa/Broadway. My guess is the placement requirements of Casa/Colosseum are a bit too complicated to plan for AI, while for Kilwa it's very easy.



Forbidden City [23+1=24]
Good for all victory types and has a good place on the tech tree, just after Machinery.

Oxford University [8-3=5]
I'm a casual player who tend to play tall - usually no more than 8 cities - so I will build Oxford in my Pingala city with a good +5 campus for the 20%. And I like it.
However the current meta game is going wide - if you plop more city, you will get more science, and you don't really need Oxford when you have lots of cities.
A city with 10 population and an okay +3 campus will give you about 60± science, after Natural Philosophy & Rationalism & 1 scientific CS & amenities. That's not much. But if you are a player obsessed with optimization, you will plop at least 10 cities like this - or even 20 cities like some optimization-addicted players I know of - the science output can easily reach 1000+. Moreover, in the actual gameplay you will also have good campuses, improvements, more CSs, Kilwa, trade routes, International Space Agency, etc. 2000+.
So without Oxford you can also reach 1000+ if you really invest in playing wide. And what Oxford's 20% will give you? Usually around 10 to 20 sciences. In Industrial Era. You better have a Research Alliance or even plug in Military Research.

Under the current meta game, percentage-boost style wonders (Oxford, Ruhr, Broadway) kind of sucks - they are dedicated to buff that one city, but even 1 more developed okay/good city can beat their output boosts. IMHO if they can give you a crazy percentage boost (50%? 100%?) in a single city rather than just 20%, that's more like "playing tall".



Apadana [9]
Big Ben [21]
Bolshoi Theatre [8]
Colosseum [15]
Cristo Redentor [13]
Eiffel Tower [14]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [6]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [5]
Petra [9]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [26]
Ruhr Valley [9]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [7]
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
Apadana [6] 9-3 Apanda is still here but Alhambra is long gone :lol: :crazyeye: :confused:, a nice bonus but not overpowering and the AI loves to build it.

Mahabodhi Temple [7] 6+1 Useful for RV, CV and DV - two apostles can enhance your religion or spread it. Great wonder that is far too low here.

Apadana [6]
Big Ben [21]
Bolshoi Theatre [8]
Colosseum [15]
Cristo Redentor [13]
Eiffel Tower [14]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [7]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [5]
Petra [9]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [26]
Ruhr Valley [9]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [7]
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
Eiffel Tower: [11] (14-3) Seems too high at this point based on the fairly limited solid impact of appeal. Also it doesn't get helped by the fact that Neighborhoods are generally skipped because of partisans and low impact of tall gameplay.
Statue Of Liberty: [8] (7+1) While not a top wonder, it still offers a very significant boost to one victory type, which is more than can be said about several of the other remaining wonders.


Apadana [6]
Big Ben [21]
Bolshoi Theatre [8]
Colosseum [15]
Cristo Redentor [13]
Eiffel Tower [11]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [7]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [5]
Petra [9]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [26]
Ruhr Valley [9]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [8]
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
Bolshoi Theatre [5] (8-3) Two free civics is good; but unless you’re an elite-level player who times everything precisely, it’s not easy to twist this to give civics you want. For the music slot, you could just build a Broadcast Tower; ditto the writer slot and Ampitheater. I end up building Bolshoi an awful lot because the AI never seems to want it, and that’s definitely a point in it’s favour; but at this stage it’s not enough to keep it in.

Mahabodhi Temple [8] (7+1) I think this deserves to remain for three, maybe four more places. It is very, very powerful for religious victory: essentially, converting your capital/second city’s production into full evangelisation of your religion, at a particular time in a RV when you don’t need to be building anything else. And it is also very important for diplomatic victory. The placement requirements can be annoying if you forget about them, but equally, they also mean the AI never manages to build it because they seem too stupid to place their holy sites next to woods.

Apadana [6]
Big Ben [21]
Bolshoi Theatre [5] (8-3)
Colosseum [15]
Cristo Redentor [13]
Eiffel Tower [11]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8] (7+1)
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [5]
Petra [9]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [26]
Ruhr Valley [9]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [8]
Temple of Artemis [18]

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Upvote: Collosseum. 16 (15+1) Oh,didn't realize this needed defending. Pretty much agree with lotrmith on it's a easy to get this wonder on any difficulty level, and I have lost almost everything higher on this list to the AI many more times than Colosseum. So if you want to downvote things because it's lost to the Ai, you might as well downvote every other wonder besides maybe Bolshoi and Mausoleum.

All you really have to do is refine your early game so you reach Games and Recs timely and have Magnus in place. The EC isn't that valuable, but it's not a complete wash since you're need it to boost Civil Engineering someday so might as well put it in use. It can also let you flip cities or hold on to captured cities much easier than usual as well should you decide to go to war later.

Of course the main thing about this wonder isn't the amenities but rather the culture. For culture wins this wonder is essential because the AI getting it will make their culture explode early and make things much tougher down the line.


Downvote: Cristo Redentor. 10 (13-3) Hmm, we'll leave Ruhr Valley alone for a little because why is this so high? This thing has always been second fiddle to the Effel Tower even back when it was useful in Vanilla; Effel is much more flexible while Cristo is only for a very specialized type of Culture Victory. It should never be above Effel.

Back in Vanilla it made sense because people would beeline computers as it used to double your tourism. So you'd always pick it up on the way, but it was more that you had nothing better to do as opposed to it being good. Vanilla was also very science based as a result as even culture victories would pursue science instead.

Now that is no longer the case, plus GS has introduced Ski Resorts that have by and far overshadowed seaside ones due to easier placement. Even if you went for a religious based culture victory with relics, you're still better off just using your faith stores on Rock Bands to end the game anyways-- why waste time on wonders? Btw, don't build Ruhr in CVs. Just don't. The only wonders that can possibly help are Bolshoi, Broadway, and maybe Maracana to fling yourself to Social Media/Environmentalism and even that is sorta optional. I guess Big Ben could be nice for mass purchases.

In any case, I don't even manage to finish the wonder before the game ends a lot of the time. Although to be fair I find Effel redundant too in many games unless I'm Canada or something.


Apadana [6]
Big Ben [21]
Bolshoi Theatre [5]
Colosseum [16]
Cristo Redentor [10]
Eiffel Tower [11]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [5]
Petra [9]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [26]
Ruhr Valley [9]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [8]
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
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Apadana [6]
Big Ben [21]
Bolshoi Theatre [2]
Colosseum [16]
Cristo Redentor [10]
Eiffel Tower [11]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [5]
Petra [9]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [26]
Ruhr Valley [9]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [8]
Temple of Artemis [18]

Downvote goes to the Bolshoi Theatre. I think the Bolshoi Theatre has the following problems: it offers only a trivial amount of Great Person Points for how late in the game it comes, and probably won't even earn you a full Great Person of either type; it has stupidly small number of Great Work slots; and most importantly, the main bonus of two free Civics does not work. Anyone playing the game to a reasonably high-level will be bee-lining the key Civics they want, and, notably, leaving a few 'dead-end' Civics from early on unresearched. Why? Because later on you can switch to them and research them in a single turn to give you really quick policy flexibility. If you build the Bolshoi Theatre, either you a) take the risk that these 'switcher' Civics will be researched, in which case you've just wasted the free Civic on something you could do in a turn and lost all Policy flexibility, or b) you waste a few turns clearing these 'switcher' Civics meaning you now have no Policy flexibility later on. That's a bigger penalty than it looks. In addition, the Bolshoi Theatre also just requires you going over to the wrong side of the Civics tree - frankly, you want to rush Mass Media and that requires you to have been focusing on the top half of the Civics tree, not the bottom half. As such, the Bolshoi Theatre can actually delay you by pushing you to the wrong side.

The reason I've left off the Bolshoi Theatre until now is because for reasons I can't quite work out, I just never see the AI build this. It's almost unheard of. I usually end building this thing eventually because it just gets left for basically forever and I just like the cool points. But "I build it because it's there" isn't really a strong sentiment in favour.

Upvote goes to the Statue of Liberty. It's 20% of a Diplomatic Victory. Yes, Diplomatic Victory is meme win condition that isn't fun in the slightest. Neverthelss, it is an extremely viable way to win and the Statue of Liberty gives you a big leg-up on it.

As an aside: I don't think things like the Statue of Liberty, the Cristo Redentor, and the Eiffel Tower should be being down-voted just yet. Yes, they only contribute to one win condition... but they all contribute a lot to that win condition. To respond to @Archon_Wing, Ski Resorts absolutely do not replace Seaside Resorts in the slightest - well-placed Seaside Resorts get you waaay more Tourism than Ski Resorts can, they get you ever important Gold for just rushing Builders to spam Forests for more Appeal Tourism or to rapidly build Faith infrastructure from nowhere to help with Rock Bands and the like. The Cristo Redentor then makes them even better on top of that. In addition, if you were attempting a Reliquaries Culture win (the fastest and arguably most powerful sort, albeit under specific conditions) and for whatever reason couldn't quite drag it over the finish line, the Cristo Redentor helps you transition to a later sort.

Only contributing to one Victory Condition is fine. Nobody pursues every Victory Condition right up until the final turn. At some point, you have to commit to a Victory Condition, because it's the best one available to you or because others are no longer viable (and if not and you feel you can win in loads of different ways, you're ready to graduate to a higher difficulty level!). Generally speaking I have picked what sort of Victory Condition I want to pursue quite firmly by T30 at the absolute latest. Sometimes game events force me into a pivot unexpectedly - e.g. a runaway Kongo on the other side of the map when I wanted to do a Culture Victory. Nevertheless, even forced pivots have basically run out by T100.

The fact that e.g. Petra can play a role in any Victory Condition doesn't make it better than the Statue of Liberty. Why? Because when I use the Statue of Liberty, or the Eiffel Tower, they give a lot of buck for bang, they're a big part of that strategy. Petra... is nice and fun? It gives you a little nudge for anything, but I'd never describe it as an intrinsic or critical part of anything. If I miss it, it's a matter of mild peturbation at worst. If I was going for a National Parks driven Cultural Victory and I miss the Eiffel Tower, that's a much bigger problem.

My view is that the real line-up to go next is the following: Petra, St. Basil's Cathedral, Bolshoi Theatre, and the Apadana, for a number of reasons. None of these are powerful Wonders for any Victory Condition, they're just a fun leg-up if you can catch them. Petra... makes one desert city roughly as good as an ordinary city in terms of terrain yields. This is neat if you're cramped early on, but later on even if you settle to desert you can use one ITR to get basically any City up to the point it can run at least 3 Districts very quickly, and the yields from terrain are not really that important (as is the case for late-game cities). Exactly the same issue for St. Basil's Cathedral, albeit to my mind it is better than Petra because of the role it can have in supporting specifically Cultural Victories under the right conditions. I've outlined the problems with the Bolshoi Theatre above. The Apadana is a little different from the othes because it is actually quite good if you can get it, but it commits you to a very particular strategy to get the most out of it that isn't very flexible, and of course it's extremely difficult to get on higher difficulties and often I feel it is too risky to waste Production on.
 
Ruhr Valley [10] (9+1) I’m clearly of the same broad opinion as @TCBB here. I would place Ruhr higher than certain voters seem willing; but, failing that, it should at least last a little while longer. Compare with the other options: Apadana is difficult to grab before the AI and it has restrictive placements; Bolshoi comes late and, if you don’t plan the civic boost correctly, is essentially a glorified Broadcast Tower; Cristo Redentor is Eiffel’s weaker younger brother; Statue of Liberty affects only one win condition (albeit, very strongly); St Basil is only relevant in relic / religious tourism games; and while we all love to build Petra, its questionable how much impact it actually has. I would say that Ruhr should outlast all of these options, then I’ll drop the case. As for the argument that it’s a waste of time, my personal meta is always to rush Industrialization in any victory condition, (for access to Coal, for the +1 production for mines, and for purchasing factories everywhere); so I always get plenty of opportunity to make use of Ruhr. That might not be the ‘min-max’ way of doing things but, quite frankly, I don’t much care.

Petra [6] (9-3) See above. Everyone’s favourite wonder to build, but does it really make that much of a difference to your win condition? Looking at the competition, I’d say it deserves to go imminently.

Apadana [6]
Big Ben [21]
Bolshoi Theatre [2]
Colosseum [16]
Cristo Redentor [10]
Eiffel Tower [11]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [5]
Petra [6] (9-3)
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [26]
Ruhr Valley [10] (9+1)
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [9]
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
Prety much all the wonders here are good so I'm downvoting one of the more specialized wonders. Cristo Redentor is good, but only for a culture victory. Meanwhile I'll throw another vote for the most versatile wonder in the game, the pyramids.

Apadana [6]
Big Ben [21]
Bolshoi Theatre [2]
Colosseum [16]
Cristo Redentor [7]
Eiffel Tower [11]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [5]
Petra [6]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [27]
Ruhr Valley [10]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [9]
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
-3) Bolshoi Theatre (2 >> ELIMINATED). Well, I'll have always a little space in my hearth for Bolshoi. It's always there to be built, it's cheap, and the music is great! But I have to recognize I build it when I run off of better options. As with Oxford, free civic/techs is less useful than it seems due to RNG factor, and having more slots, specially music at the time Bolshoi comes is nice when going all-on culture, but not that game-defining, as much more options are available. It has made top 20, that should be considered satisfying. Time to go.

+1) Cristo Redentor (7 >> 8). Now, a wonder I would always try to build in a culture game, to leverage early religion efforts and make them help too in the final push. Differently to Mahabodi or Statue of Liberty that provide an immediate strong push, but that's it. Cristo Redentor has lasting effects, and (even if they don't pay so much in the long run - and I don't think that is the case for CR, because there is no immediate tourism bombs), I feel that more satisfying.

Apadana [6]
Big Ben [21]
Colosseum [16]
Cristo Redentor [8]
Eiffel Tower [11]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [5]
Petra [6]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [27]
Ruhr Valley [10]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [9]
Temple of Artemis [18]

Eliminated: Bolshoi Theatre [2-3]
 
I kind of think Statue of Liberty's importance to diplomatic victories is overstated by some, and I win a lot of diplomatic victories. Unless you get the timing to work out just right, a lot of times all it does is make it so you are getting voted to lose points earlier. This isn't as big a deal now that you only lose 2 points (and so you can actually leave every Congress with a net gain of 1 point if you vote correctly), but back when you lost 3 points a mistimed SoL could completely stall your ability to gain any DV points at all. As things stand in the current game it's okay, but if Firaxis tinkers with DV votes again that could change in a hurry... but I think a lot of people would still say "4 free DV points, awesome!" TBH some of my fastest diplomatic victories have come when I let the AI build SoL to take a DV points lead with me 1-2 points behind them... you can then slingshot to victory as they get voted to lose points at an earlier date than if you had the lead and could only achieve a net gain of 1 point at each congress. Not going to vote one way or the other yet, but that's my two cents.

so what makes Petra bad not as good is the opportunity cost of settling in a low production city early on in the game.
I'm going to go ahead and defend Petra again... I think if you're settling a low production city early in the game to try to take advantage of Petra, you're obviously shooting yourself in the foot. Petra's not going anywhere. The AI rarely builds it, and certainly not until after Jebel and Pyramids are gone. Most of the time I'm building Petra it's in one of the last cities I settle and it's an era or two later than you'd think (and in the rare event Petra's gone, I'll just skip settling that desert city at all).

Downvoting Apadana. I know there are some unique strategies you can go for with it, but I find it hard to build before the AI and am rarely in a position early (on Deity) where I can really take advantage of it's bonuses.

Apadana [3] (6-3)
Big Ben [21]
Colosseum [16]
Cristo Redentor [8]
Eiffel Tower [11]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [5]
Petra [7] (6+1)
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [27]
Ruhr Valley [10]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [9]
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
+1 I don't always get Apadana before the AI. But I always try to. This single wonder allows me to become suzerain of virtually every city state in the game, which boosts science, culture, gold, and military production. It also gives valuable allies throughout the world if I am attacked.

-3 Cristo Redentor can be useful for aiding a cultural victory. But I much prefer the National Parks route.


Apadana [4]
Big Ben [21]
Colosseum [16]
Cristo Redentor [5]
Eiffel Tower [11]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [5]
Petra [7]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [27]
Ruhr Valley [10]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [9]
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
Apadana [4]
Big Ben [21]
Colosseum [16]
Cristo Redentor [5]
Eiffel Tower [12] (11+1) Just found this thread and am glad Eiffel Tower is still in it, though getting a bit low. It's really only useful if you're going for a culture victory, sure, but if you are, it's wonderful. Free appeal ANYWHERE and EVERYWHERE, including mountains!!, and that's +2, which is quite substantial. It's important to remember that this not only boosts the tourism output of your already-good national parks and seaside resorts, but also unlocks more locations for constructing of national parks and resorts. This is particularly useful for the seaside resorts, since they require appeal of +4 or more. I often find that completion of the Eiffel Tower gives me about twice as many locations for seaside resorts, even in spots where I never planned to build them, like on the coasts beside industrial zones or strategic resource mines. I'd be very interested to see data on the resulting tourism impact of the Eiffel Tower, given that it boosts tourism of parks, seaside resorts, and ski resorts, while also allowing you to build more of the former two. It's gotta be a pretty substantial boost. My strategy is to spam seasides everywhere and continue to settle cities into the lategame if possible just so that I can fill them with seasides. Eiffel Tower enhances this greatly.
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [5]
Petra [7]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [27]
Ruhr Valley [10]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [6] (9-3) Really not a huge fan of this one. It does boost a specific victory type the same way the Eiffel Tower does, but I don't think it's as impactful. It also feels a bit strange to me in that it provides almost no long-term bonus - the loyalty guarantee is extremely situational, and once you get the diplo points, that's it, you get nothing else. I end up losing those diplo points to congress anyway... maybe I would be better off with it if I were better at planning congress votes to win max points each time.
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
Apadana [5] (4+1). The last two games where I managed to build Apadana, I was able to ally at least 10 of the city states (settings were Deity, standard map, standard CSs). Combined with Kilwa, this can be a game breaking wonder. Granted, it’s hard to build and you’re definitely going to need a perfect setup to do so, but when you do, it’s super useful.
Big Ben [21]
Colosseum [16]
Cristo Redentor [5]
Eiffel Tower [12]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [2] (5-3). Both of the bonuses are nice, but not critical. The 20% science boost, absent unique circumstances, is probably around 20 beakers per turn. The two free techs are okay, but when I’m building this, I’ve usually neglected the bottom half of the tech tree and too often end up with some cheap military tech.
Petra [7]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [27]
Ruhr Valley [10]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [6]
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
Apadana [5]
Big Ben [21]
Colosseum [16]
Cristo Redentor [5]
Eiffel Tower [9] (12-3) - Indeed, appeal is useful for tourism, neighborhoods, Bull Moose Teddy, Australia, and not much else. Therefore, this wonder isn't as strong as some of the universally beneficial wonders left.
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [2]
Petra [8] (7+1) - Petra can be an incredible boon, especially if you want to rock desert folklore or use a desert start bias civilization. It's also very fun to build. Fun probably isn't the criterion we should be using to judge, but if I am having fun, I'm much more likely to finish the game (and win).
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [27]
Ruhr Valley [10]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [6]
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
The largest Amphitheater vs the tallest Monument
(of their times)

Apadana [5]
Big Ben [21]
Colosseum [17] (16+1) Two good multi benefits.
Cristo Redentor [5]
Eiffel Tower [6] (9-3) Just can't get myself to down vote anything higher than this right now. And bringing it in line with its partner the Cristo Redentor.
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University [2]
Petra [8]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [27]
Ruhr Valley [10]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [6]
Temple of Artemis [18]
 
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Apadana [5]
Big Ben [21]
Colosseum [17]
Cristo Redentor [5]
Eiffel Tower [6]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Oxford University: ELIMINATED (2-3 = -1) I rarely build this and to be frank it's totally unnecessary. Even in a science game your campuses and Rationalism will take care of your victory condition. A "more win" wonder.
Petra [8]
Potala Palace [12]
Pyramids [27]
Ruhr Valley [10]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [6]
Temple of Artemis 19 (18+1) I rarely get to build this because the AI loves it, but having taken it from the AI cities, it does offer some nice bonuses.
 
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Apadana [5]
Big Ben [21]
Colosseum [14] (17-3) My daily downvote to keep it from being a top 5 wonder (it won the 2018 thread, which is ridiculous). Had a game today where I played as Rough Rider Teddy with no neighbours apart from city states. Great start, could play purely for economy, infrastructure and wonders! I actually planned to get this, but while working on my standard early game a different problem occured to me, which again goes against why I think this is a great wonder. I started near the coast, next to the Tsingy world wonder with several mountain ranges near - fantastic start! Settled two cities and started work on the Govt. Plaza and Ancestrall hall. There were two great +5 campus spots for my two next cities as well, so things were looking great for a science game. I got Oracle early in my capital (due to Earth Goddess giving very high faith), while my settled cities got to work on the campuses and govt. plaza while my capital continued churning out settlers and a harbor for the Mausoleum. But then it occured to me: I simply had way too much to build, and not enough district slots to even start thinking about the Colosseum! And while the mountains were great for the campuses, they prevented me from settling cities "optimally" for the Colosseum to benefit them.
TL;DR: The Colosseum just competes with too much stuff (due to the harsh requirement of an Entertainment Complex) at a time where you really want to settle more cities and building infrastructure. You aren't guaranteed to have a nice layout of core cities that benefit from it, and personally I'd much rather focus on settling aggressively towards the AI and start work on key infrastructure and more cities, rather than start work on an Entertainment Complex, Arena and the Colosseum. You have a decent chance of getting it, but you are NOT guaranteed to get "+12 culture/amenities" just like that. In my game it would be +6 only, and at the cost of a guaranteed and much quicker +5 campus and more settlers. And IF I'd lost it, I would have sabotaged my own efforts to get Oracle/Mausoleum/+5 campuses/more settlers. No way, too much of a risk for something I don't stricly need.

Eiffel Tower [6]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Petra [8]
Potala Palace [13] (12+1) Policy card wonders are always great. Roughy comes online when I start needing Wisselbanken (such a good card), so that I value it about as high as I value Forbidden City (I always need that green card slot, if not for Wisselbanken then for the spy cards). Extra DV points are just fluffing on top too. Good wonder.
Pyramids [27]
Ruhr Valley [10]
St. Basil's Cathedral [12]
Statue of Liberty [6]
Temple of Artemis [19]
 
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Colosseum [14] (17-3) My daily downvote to keep it from being a top 5 wonder (it won the 2018 thread, which is ridiculous).

Uh - you might want to read the rules in the first post about 'vexatiously' voting and repeatedly up-voting/down-voting the same candidate.

Kilwa Kisiwani [27] 26+1 Massive empire wise boosts with two like suzerainships. And some bonus envoys to help you on that path.

St. Basil's Cathedral [9] 12 - 3 - A boost for one city, and a minor boost for the culture game with religious tourism. A lot more limited to most of the remaining wonders. And of the two comparable single city effect wonders left - Ruhr and Petra, I'd likely put it below both.

Apadana [5]
Big Ben [21]
Colosseum [14]
Eiffel Tower [6]
Forbidden City [24]
Kilwa Kisiwani [26]
Mahabodhi Temple [8]
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus [26]
Oracle [25]
Petra [7]
Potala Palace [13]
Pyramids [27]
Ruhr Valley [10]
St. Basil's Cathedral [9]
Statue of Liberty [6]
Temple of Artemis [19]
 
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