Is Hanging Gardens going obsolete for you?

[Slax]

I have found that I am many tech past discovering steam power, yet the Hanging Gardens still has 3 content faces next to it, and the other cities on the continent are still getting the +1 content citizen benefit.

Has anyone else seen this happen?

 

[PaulNAdhe]

I never build the 'Gardens.

About the only obsoletable wonder I mess with is Lighthouse. I don't like the idea of spending all that time just to watch it become useless sometime later in the game.

 

[FullofHoles]

I have a possible explanation for a bug:

Did you research Steam Power yourself or did you get it from another civilization? Maybe the computer "forgets" to count it if you received the tech in trade with another nation?

I noticed that the "end of the era" scene does not play if you trade to get the tech that should trigger it.

I noticed some strange things with the Colossus continuing to work after it should have stopped once, but I never did figure out what the "trigger" was.

 

[eyrei]

I experimented with this situation with the Great Library. Wow. That would be nice, but it didn't work. I simply waited until I could trade for education instead of researching it. The library still became obsolete.

 

[Slax]

Originally posted by FullofHoles
I have a possible explanation for a bug:

Did you research Steam Power yourself or did you get it from another civilization? Maybe the computer "forgets" to count it if you received the tech in trade with another nation?

I noticed that the "end of the era" scene does not play if you trade to get the tech that should trigger it.

I noticed some strange things with the Colossus continuing to work after it should have stopped once, but I never did figure out what the "trigger" was.

No - I got Steam Power through research.

 

[eyrei]

I wonder if those smiley faces are just permanantly attached to the Hanging Gardens, but are not actually affecting your city.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

always went dead for me but once i conquered it working - using tanks to get the town...... no further comment necessary... it quit after the civ that had built it reached it`s next tech - Free Artisty..... but I have to add this was prepatch....

 

[Justus II]

I have had the same thing happen, I was looking for other posts to see if I was the only one with this problem. I built Hanging
Gardens because I missed out on another wonder (GL I think), playing on Regent level (with Patch). I researched Steam Power,
and in fact am now several advances past it, on Refining, yet
HG still works! The three still show up on the city screen.
More significant, on the domestic adviser screen, where it lists
happy and content numbers, it reflects the HG bonus (3 more
for my capital, one more in all other cities). I'm not sure if there
is another tech that will make it obsolete, or if maybe some other
nation must also discover Steam Power (was playing with 7 others, 3 are gone, the other 4 haven't gotten that far yet).

 

[Parmenion]

Even more unbelieveable - I once built Hanging Gardens AFTER I had discovered Steam Power, and it still gave me the smiley faces!!? This was on easy-peasy Chieftan level though and none of the other Civs knew how to tie their boot laces yet, let alone build Wonders.