Maintainence Cost for Wonders

[kobayashi]

There is a window for entering the cost of maintaining wonders but apparently this is deregarded and all wonders do not cost anything to maintain. Everyone agree with this?

 

[oryx]

Yes. I had hoped to employ wonders costs as a cheesy way to stop some tribes from getting too rich. Alas, it does not seem to work.

 

[kobayashi]

Originally posted by oryx
Yes. I had hoped to employ wonders costs as a cheesy way to stop some tribes from getting too rich. Alas, it does not seem to work.

That's exactly the same reason I was experimenting with it.

 

[Case]

You could do what Captain Nemo did in Red Front, and give the AI an unessesary city improvement with a high maintinence cost. (in Red Front Nemo renamed the SDI defence 'concentration camp', and gave them a cost of 50 per turn)

 

[kobayashi]

In my case I am not concerned about the AI. If it was the AI I could just use events to minus X amount per turn. To do this for a human would be very confusing for him as he would be losing money even though his budget balanced.

I am already using the maintenance cost idea but a smart human would sell all the redundant improvements and make a windfall at the same time.

 

[Smash]

maybe the palace could be changed and used?..can't sell those.

 

[Case]

Originally posted by kobayashi
I am already using the maintenance cost idea but a smart human would sell all the redundant improvements and make a windfall at the same time.

Why don't you give vital improvements (city walls, airports) high maintenance costs?

 

[kobayashi]

I only want to make one tribe poorer. Seems the only way is to slowly edit the terrain so there are less mony giving tiles.