Multiplayer Wonder Swapping / Weirdness

ABPoobah

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Edit: I feel this might be important - this is happening in Gods and Kings based games where one player has BNW (I have BNW my friends do not).

I've only seen this strangeness occur with the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus and the Temple of Artemis. Once the issue involved just the Mausoleum, the second time both the Mausoleum and the ToA were involved, both times were in multiplayer games (pit-boss I believe, with hybrid/simultaneous play).

The two instances of strangeness occurring are not identical but I believe they are related, and I think it's no coincidence that the two wonders from Wonders of the Ancient World that weren't included in BNW are being effected (since BNW must be interacting with it in some way to add the Statue of Zeus to BNW?).

-In the first instance someone who said they were constructing the Mausoleum suddenly stopped doing so and was unable to continue work on it. I could see the option to build it, but it was faded out in the usual style when you're building that wonder in another city (faded, red text: Only 1 allowed in the world).

-In the second instance I had already constructed the Mausoleum when my friend told me that his ToA had 'finished' but hadn't appeared. After we hit one of those annoying loading screens that pop up in multiplayer sometimes (due to desynch?). The Mausoleum had disappeared from my city and the ToA had taken its place. I began rebuilding the Mausoleum that very turn but next turn it was back to being out in the usual style when you're building that wonder in another city (faded, red text: Only 1 allowed in the world) as I mentioned in the earlier example.

I'm really glad we were playing a game as allies against a bunch of AI rather than some competitive pvp game when this happened. We tried saving and reloading to no avail.

Edit: happened again in a multiplayer game I was playing with a friend and a bunch of AI. I was half way through building the Mausoleum when it suddenly stopped building and was unavailable to build "Only 1 allowed in the world" but my friend reported that it was an option in his build list to start construction on it and no AI had built it out from under me.
 
Happened again except the Temple of Artemis turned in to the Statue of Zeus after one of those Multiplayer loading screens.

The common elements in all of these occurrences are -

+The Three wonders from "Wonders of the Ancient World"
+The loading screens that occur in multiplayer sometimes? (I've seen some other weirdness after these screens too, seems like the game's brain gets totally scrambled)
+Possibly unrelated, possibly highly important: I have BNW, my friends only have Civ 5 Gold.
 
I've been experiencing the same problem, with these same wonders.
While testing if the desyncing and loading screens would go away if we disabled the ancient wonders DLC, we found that this happened with at least one of the smaller civilization DLC's, namely the Inca.

One friend of mine was playing as the Inca, and when he tried to buy one of their unique units (the slinger) with gold, it didn't show up for the rest of us, and we got a loading screen on going to the next turn. Also, when he tried to produce one of those units, to the rest of us it looked like he wasn't producing anything.

Could you test whether this also happens to you, if you have the same DLC?
For the record, none of us have BNW, just the Gold Edition.

If it happens to you too I'd say that there is a problem with all of the DLC's except for G&K and BNW, and we would have to bring this to the attention of Firaxis.
 
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