Of Pyramids and Universal Sufferage... Usefulness?

[wc3promet]

Of Pyramids and Universal Sufferage... Usefulness?

I keep hearing people saying that they rush for the Pyramid just to get Universal Sufferage.

Of course the only people who says that Universal Sufferage is uber in Ancient Age are those who "Memory-edit" their treasury and get 1,000,000 gold and then get Out-of-Sync in memory.

 

[Gufnork]

To get Universal Suffrage? That's pretty useless until you get towns. What you want it for is to get Representation, the happiness bonus and extra beakers are huge in the early game.

 

[petey]

Universal Suffrage sucks in the Ancient Age. You don't have any towns yet and you don't have enough money to rush anything.

The benefits of Pyramids are getting Representation for the happiness and research boost and also they start to get you Great Engineer points, which are probably one of the most useful GPs.

 

[jeremiahrounds]

representation and the extra great people is worth it if your industrious. Not sure if your not. But tis not that hard to build for people with industrious and stone.

 

[ZouPrime]

Pyramids => Great Engineer points => producing Great Engineers => hurry wonders production => More wonders => More great people points => rince and repeat.

In my current game, am I actually staking Great Engineer - I have three of them just waiting to hurry the productions of some of the late game wonders as soon as I get the technology.

That, and the fact that you can switch to Representation, make the Pyramids so powerful.