Marble or Stone?

[Ecofarm]

I don't play a lot of MP, so I don't understand. Please be more specific. Why is Stone so good? The stone wonders you list don't seem that great to me.

MP = No Tech Trading.

Great library requires literature when the tech is still expensive (before CS). Generally, a waste of time in MP because: Pangea = early rush, and Island = CS rush. Great Lib does not reach fruition until the industrial age anyway (when the bonus scientists have helped achieve a significant tech lead), so it just does not help in most MP games.

Oracle, used for Metal, Monachy, Machinery, or Fuedalism will result in a CS date of >200AD. Game lost. In pangea, longbow are great for defense, but will you enjoy watching the point leader pull away while you scramble for guilds with a crappy economy and he works 4 cottages in bureaucracy?

Masoleum is effective only if you have at least 3 golden ages. 2 might make it worthwhile, but in MP, you get 1 GreatPerson for academy (scientist), 1 for engineering or a wonder (engineer), and one for a golden age. Getting 2 more for another golden age will not happen until the game is over (industrial era).

With all of those questionable benefits, how can you choose marble over:

Notre = +2 happiness (all cities)
Hanging = +1 pop, +1 health (all cities)
Maoi = always worth building, usually in cap.

Immediate gratification gets the job done in MP.

ps. I pretty much only play MP. I got tired of trying to memorize AI behavior to exploit the code. Playing against the code (in many ways) got boring, now I prefer human opponents.

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[Rex rgis of Ter]

The great lighthouse was destroyed in antiquity, how do we know what it was made of?

Because it was next to the great library. Thus, it was documented. Seriously, it was world famous.

 

[Mattzc7]

No one's mentioned this, so it's probably just me, but it seems that marble is really rare, so that's the one i'd pick. Stone seems to me to pop up 3x as much as marble. Wonder-wise, i like the marble, seems stone has too-many of those great prophet wonders.

 

[Blaarg]

Because it was next to the great library. Thus, it was documented. Seriously, it was world famous.

According to wiki, it was Constructed from large blocks of light-coloured stone

 

[Blaarg]

No one's mentioned this, so it's probably just me, but it seems that marble is really rare, so that's the one i'd pick. Stone seems to me to pop up 3x as much as marble. Wonder-wise, i like the marble, seems stone has too-many of those great prophet wonders.

I'd say it's pretty even...both are pretty rare IMO.

 

[alvan]

If the question was; which resource would you rather start with I think everyone would say stone, marble you can get later relativly easy.

But if im excluded from one, Im prolly gonna say marble. But nnngghhh, I want both!

 

[dragodon64]

And that's why you go to war