I'm a bit blown away by some of the recent votes. It's a shame that it's become a contest between a couple wonders in a targeted elimination effort while inferior wonders remain. My thoughts:
Eyja: At this stage the mere fact that it is exclusive to tundra and snow should send it packing, on top of its ability to pillage or destroy your improvements around it.
Ik-kil: A mixed bag. It's not good to get it early as you're not using its full potential. There's a limited window of usefulness mid-late game. As the earlier a Wonder is acquired, the earlier you can benefit and get a bigger, faster snowball, this should have been gone a while ago.
Roraima: Dense yields but of a tricky variety. The faith can be very good very early to get you to a pantheon, potentially saving you the production of your first settler. After that, however, its grassland positioning can be detrimental to your efforts. Just look at the current GotM: Even on Legendary start position and a very lucky seaside spawn, there's heavy debate about where to settle and what to work. Without any spoilers, a heavy consideration has to be made about how to work the tiles and where to place Holy Sites (it's a religious GotM). In this case, converting adjacency tiles into Holy Sites will in many cases not get you a net increase in Faith, but will cause you to lose the science. The same applies to Campuses and the net gain of science (if any, prior to library and policy cards) at the cost of losing the faith.
Consider early science as the resource you have to manage the most heavily: Too much science outpacing your production will actually do more harm than good. As you unlock technology, you increase the cost of actually building the districts. Then with fewer districts actually laid down, but more district techs unlocked, you can lose out on discounts. Further, your tech can outpace your production ability to actually make units. Consider that, for example, finishing Archery automatically removes your ability to build Slingers (and wastes any production currently in progress on any slingers), and you now must hard build Archers rather than pump slingers to upgrade (producing low tech units and paying for upgrades is far more efficient than producing higher tech units). Pretty much the only time you want such hard and fast science is to get to a Horseman rush. But even then once you unlock Horsemen you may want to cut back on science fairly quickly (for the previously mentioned reasons).
Culture by and large does not suffer from these considerations, as you unlock only two districts via Culture and practically no units, and the raw power of policy cards and governments being unlocked (especially early) far, far outweigh any negative consequences.
Paititi: Not much to say, this is the only Wonder being given the correct consideration. In my opinion it should be between Torres and this for top spot.
Pio: This is being done dirty. See thoughts above on Science vs Culture. Pio should compete against Yosemite for top 5, but since Ik-Kil and Eyjafjallajökull are still here, it's become a petty contest to eliminate one against the other before either is due. In my opinion, not only is the Culture of Pio worth more then the Science of Yosemite, but the sheer fact that Yosemite can spawn in Tundra while Pio cannot should at this stage be enough to put Pio ahead, regardless of your opinion on Culture vs Science.
Torres: Here to me is where the downvoting makes no sense whatsoever. Torres is the most consistent Wonder in the game with the two most crucial early resources: Food and Production. At minimum (grassland/plains) it will turn 2-yield tiles into 4-yield tiles. At maximum in the case of hill tiles, it turns 3-yield tiles into 6-yield tiles. All this without any consideration for extra yields like woods, bonus resources, or luxuries/strategics. I think I'd honestly take Torres over Païtiti because of its consistency and I know I won't have to worry about growth or production, while Païtiti may find you lacking in one or both of those areas (it can also spawn in DESERT). I acknowledge that Torres can spawn in Tundra, and while my experience is that Tundra spawns are infrequent, at least Tundra is better than freaking Desert.
One takeaway from the new Wonder-selection mode is that we may be able to come away with fairly reliable frequency numbers for terrain spawns.
Yosemite: See above. Should at least compete for #5/#6 with Piopiotahi but there's a petty contest going on right now between the two to send one packing early. Yosemite can spawn in TUNDRA or plains. Pio can spawn in GRASSLAND or plains. What even is life right now?
For my votes I feel obligated to try to keep Piopiotahi around at least to outlast Eyjafjallajökull and Ik-kil. I won't contribute to the petty feud between it and Yosemite, so I will stand on principle and downvote Eyjafjallajökull (followed by Ik-kil). If the petty feud continues this will be my last vote... this thread has significantly lower participation than usual so the results are already more dubious than expected.
Eyjafjallajökull [12]
Ik-Kil [20]
Mount Roraima [24]
Païtiti [34]
Piopiotahi [5]
Torres del Paine [15]
Yosemite [7]
