Moai Statues.... what the hell?!

[Dr.Null]

Does the Moai Statues and dike stack? Because that could make a nice production city in some random island.

Yes, they do stack.

 

[Disgustipated]

I just wish they didn't require so long to build. You can't actually build these on a one or two square island reasonably. I wonder if the hammer investment is actually worth it. I only build them if there's 8 or more sea tiles. But not too many or it becomes so hard to build, I can't get any other infrastructure up before the modern age.

 

[LegionSteve]

I just wish they didn't require so long to build. You can't actually build these on a one or two square island reasonably. I wonder if the hammer investment is actually worth it. I only build them if there's 8 or more sea tiles. But not too many or it becomes so hard to build, I can't get any other infrastructure up before the modern age.

You don't need hammers. You just need seafood, access to stone, and the whip

 

[TheDS]

I love Moai + Dike + Whale + Golden Age! 3 Sea Hammers, plus a quad for the Whale!

Yeah, you do gotta have a few non-sea tiles to get the statues built. I tend to go for 8-16 sea tiles where I build it, and then pair it up with the one that gives +100% military and a settled GG.

 

[wideyedwanderer]

Sorry! I accidentally posted this in the wrong thread.

 

[Iranon]

I'm new to BTS so these are new to me. So building a bunch of stone heads on the coastlines somehow manages to allow you to extract production from the sea... well okay, I could just about accept that as one of Civ's little oddities if it was an ancient World Wonder (which I thought it was when I built it), but to make it a NATIONAL wonder?!

To make things even odder, we get to build a bunch of stone heads twice... Mount Rushmore appears almost as odd to non-American players because the generalisation to 'national monument' doesn't come as naturally as it does for things like Oxford University, the Hermitage or Wall Street.

 

[Uranus Reamerz]

... so these are new to me. So building a bunch of stone heads on the coastlines somehow manages to allow you to extract production from the sea... .

You must have missed the first season, episode 17 of In Search (Easter Island )narrated by Leonard Nimoy which explains the Moai statues created by the Rapanui.
You see these people were so industrious that they chopped down all the trees on the Island making some stoneheads along the way but what they were really up too is a ...
Space victory ...
you see we all think that we're in the game ... nope! Those guyz are on Alpha Centari jammin to Bob Marley and Prayin to the Rastafarian Gawd on High

Game Over

 

[Jarlaxe Baenre]

Another odd wonder is a religious shrine. How, exactly, does a barn produce gold from people following Christianity?

Yet another is The Taj Mahal. How can a mausoleum cause a golden age? It should cause a Mourning Age for the dead woman!

Mausoleum of Maussolos: How does a building with a dead body in it allow you to have longer golden ages? Sure, if you follow the Crusaders' methods... using it as building material, but really...

 

[mariogreymist]

I think the mistake with the religious shrine is making it the Church of the Nativity and not St Peter's. There's no doubting the economic power of the guys with the pointy hats and predilection for protecting priestly pedophiles.

 

[Yared]

Pilgrims come to see it, and during their stay they sleep at a hotel, eat from a restaurant, etc, which makes money.

St Peter's is already a wonder though.

 

[Rusty Edge]

Tin is one metal (according to the event).

Same with farms.

I always imagine it to be tin, lead, zinc and nickel.

Nice avatar!

 

[oranje willem]

By the way, there is not just one pyramid, the Egyptians had multiple, but the Maya's for example have build pyramids too.

 

[Yared]

"THE Pyramids."

Not "Pyramids".

Also, in the video you can clearly see that it's the Pyramids of Giza.

 

[NovaKart]

A lot of things in the game are a big leap from actual history. Like the Koreans getting upset over a Jewish Zulu wedding. Or Queen Victoria, the Taoist. So having some Moai statues in New York in the 1930s isn't any weirder.

 

[NovaKart]

What about the Inca in Alpha Centauri? They're out there playing that Peruvian flute music. Or the Celts, listening to new age music in their spaceship.

 

[Yared]

I think that a half-naked man with a spear dominating half the world is strange enough in itself.

 

[Erufailon]

There seems to be a general misunderstanding of what a represents. True, some wonders have effects that are based on how they work in real life. However, most of them, especially from pre-modern era are more complex than that. The Taj Mahal represents the ability and will to put so many resources into a monument that's essentially just an elaborate grave. Only an empire in it's prime would be able to do that. The pyramid similarly represents the ability of a government so functional it can build a huge, well, pyramid which only serves a religious purpose. The Moai Statues represents an island nation with such high productivity it can actually spend time raising heads (either that or the aliens came and gave the people hammers).Every wonder is explainable from it's historical value and what it truly meant to the people who built it in real life

 

[SmokedSalmon]

Mount Rushmore is the worst!

 

[oranje willem]

"THE Pyramids."

Not "Pyramids".

Also, in the video you can clearly see that it's the Pyramids of Giza.

Okay, but with that reasoning Oxford University/Mount Rushmore/Hermitage etc. should be world wonders too.

 

[Jerrymander]

Okay, but with that reasoning Oxford University/Mount Rushmore/Hermitage etc. should be world wonders too.

Most nations have prestigious institutes of learning (and giant stone heads carved into mountains), but not every nation has giant useless pyramids. I'm guessing this was the rationale.