Hello and a Question about Wonders

[JimAlphaBeta]

I'm new to the forum, but have been playing Civ 5 a while. My question is: When I'm building a Wonder and someone builds it first, do I lose my production? Thanks in advance and I look forward to this Forum.

 

[Syntax Error]

The hammers get converted to gold. Might be useful when in a pinch, but still, those wasted hammers could have gone on for something better.

 

[Heerlo]

Yes.If you're building a World Wonder and someone beats you to it, then you lose all production on it and cannot build it, but you get gold for it.I think the amount of gold that you get depends on how far you got building the wonder.

But with National Wonders you don't have to worry about someone beating you to it, because each civ can build it's own copy of the national wonder.

PS-Welcome to the forums!

 

[TyBoy]

The conversion is a simple 1:1 hammer to gold ratio.

 

[Sjarrel]

It's always a pain, especially because you know that you where probably pushing your luck going for it in the first place. All those very useful buildings you could have built. If it was a vital wonder you were counting on, like Petra with a desert capital or something, even worse.

 

[PhilBowles]

It's always a pain, especially because you know that you where probably pushing your luck going for it in the first place. All those very useful buildings you could have built. If it was a vital wonder you were counting on, like Petra with a desert capital or something, even worse.

There are a few Wonders you'll never get, but if it genuinely is critical, just make sure you 'beeline' it. For instance, I had a great desert start (great for Petra that is - lots of hills, an oasis, floodplain, and a couple of luxuries) in an Immortal game at the weekend, so I made sure to beeline Currency as soon as I'd got my basic improvement techs (and Writing). No idea if I beat anyone else to Petra, although India, Arabia and Egypt also had desert capitals (though less attractive desert than mine), but I did get it and, yes, it probably was vital. In that entire game the only Wonders I went for and didn't get were Great Library (which I should never have aimed for) and Porcelain Tower (beaten by a couple of turns, so certainly achievable had I teched slightly faster). I think I had something like 10 or 11 Wonders by the end of the game, among them Petra, The Oracle, Sistine Chapel, Hubble Space Telescope and Leaning Tower of Pisa.

I also noticed that, despite several Apollo Programs, the AI seems not to have any interest in Hubble - every time Nebuchadnezzar built a spaceship component I was actually happy since it probably meant he wasn't trying to build the telescope.