Jewman
Prince
For reference: Machu Picchu is a world wonder unlocked an engineering that must be built on a mountain. It cost 400 production and provides standard adjacency bonuses to your theatre, commercial and industrial districts and gives+4 gold.
The adjacency bonuses are incredible. Getting +3 or more theatre squares is not too difficult and absolutely insane. Maps are a lot more mountainous now so chances are you will be developing on at least one side of a large mountain range as any civilization (let alone the inca). If that was the only bonus it provided, it would still be pretty decent but it also gives adjacency to commercial and industrial hubs! I build commercial hubs everywhere, regardless of win condition and this just rewards you that much more. Industrial hubs are good but you have to invest a lot into them to start being worth it. Not with Machu Picchu! Nestling them in the mountains where there will naturally be hills to mine means you can get some very strong adjacencies very early in the game. High adjacency means higher era scores too, these little things matter!
Then there's policy cards that boost adjacency. Everyone knows how strong shipyards are with adjacency, but now all your industrial zones can have this bonus and very early when it counts the most.
Also, it's built on a mountain, so it doesn't eat a tile (unless you're inca but even then you don't really care) and combined with regular wonder adjacency and its bonus, it provides 4 adjacency bonus to a theatre square next to it not counting anything else.
Downsides: the AI loves this wonder, they will always go for it so you have to commit yourself to getting it. Also, Engineering, while a useful technology, may force you to stray away from commercial hubs further delaying your economy. This can be extra bad if you go for it and someone else builds machu picchu. If you build it, you'll catch up in no time.
Anyways I have had the luck of getting it every game I've gone for it (emperor difficulty, I know you deity people don't build wonders lol). I think that because it has to be built on a mountain, you will most likely be building it on a city near lots of mountains which generally means lots of production so that may be why I'm getting so lucky. Either way do you guys also think this wonder is insane? or am i just to excited about it?
The adjacency bonuses are incredible. Getting +3 or more theatre squares is not too difficult and absolutely insane. Maps are a lot more mountainous now so chances are you will be developing on at least one side of a large mountain range as any civilization (let alone the inca). If that was the only bonus it provided, it would still be pretty decent but it also gives adjacency to commercial and industrial hubs! I build commercial hubs everywhere, regardless of win condition and this just rewards you that much more. Industrial hubs are good but you have to invest a lot into them to start being worth it. Not with Machu Picchu! Nestling them in the mountains where there will naturally be hills to mine means you can get some very strong adjacencies very early in the game. High adjacency means higher era scores too, these little things matter!
Then there's policy cards that boost adjacency. Everyone knows how strong shipyards are with adjacency, but now all your industrial zones can have this bonus and very early when it counts the most.
Also, it's built on a mountain, so it doesn't eat a tile (unless you're inca but even then you don't really care) and combined with regular wonder adjacency and its bonus, it provides 4 adjacency bonus to a theatre square next to it not counting anything else.
Downsides: the AI loves this wonder, they will always go for it so you have to commit yourself to getting it. Also, Engineering, while a useful technology, may force you to stray away from commercial hubs further delaying your economy. This can be extra bad if you go for it and someone else builds machu picchu. If you build it, you'll catch up in no time.
Anyways I have had the luck of getting it every game I've gone for it (emperor difficulty, I know you deity people don't build wonders lol). I think that because it has to be built on a mountain, you will most likely be building it on a city near lots of mountains which generally means lots of production so that may be why I'm getting so lucky. Either way do you guys also think this wonder is insane? or am i just to excited about it?
