Statue of liberty Wonder video

[clapyourhands]

I really liked the background music, but the settler bonus coming probably in the industrital era is very strange.

Well it is an American wonder, and the Industrial era is right around where America started flinging out settlers at like, triple speed.

 

[SupremacyKing2]

If you are playing on a large map and a spread out empire, you should definitely still have some good empty areas left for the free settlers.

 

[Amrunril]

A good choice for a loyalty wonder, though I might have given it a global father than local effect. I'll be interested to see what the effect size and range are. This seems like it will also give you reason to care, for reasons other than competition what wonders your neighbors are building. Assuming the loyalty effect produces "offensive" pressure as well as defensive, I foresee a lot of preemptive wars being fought to prevent this wonder's construction.

 

[Disgustipated]

The OP just links to a twitter post with no video. Does anyone have a link to the video?

Just build casinos near the uranium mines. That's what we did with Nevada.

We do quite a lot of mining in my state, but not much Uranium mining. In fact, Wiki confirms what I already knew about my fair state.

Nevada[edit]
There is no current uranium production from Nevada.

Now nuke testing we have quite a lot of in the past. And occasionally you'll see some sub-critical testings to test how well the materials are holding up with their respective half-lives.

 

[Guandao]

The OP just links to a twitter post with no video. Does anyone have a link to the video?



We do quite a lot of mining in my state, but not much Uranium mining. In fact, Wiki confirms what I already knew about my fair state.



Now nuke testing we have quite a lot of in the past. And occasionally you'll see some sub-critical testings to test how well the materials are holding up with their respective half-lives.

Here's a link to the video on Youtube.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

The OP just links to a twitter post with no video. Does anyone have a link to the video?

The tweet has a gif that shows the same as the video.

 

[Disgustipated]

Very Patriotic sounding. I feel all Nationalistic now. Go 'merica!! or is it 'murica? USA #1. Okay we didn't build the thing, but you can say we managed to assemble it correctly.

The tweet has a gif that shows the same as the video.

Whoops, my fault, I had scripting disabled for Twitter. Shows how often I use twitter (never). I find twitter very annoying. I can't stand that news articles use twitter comments as sources and include them in their articles. I think it's safe to say I hate everything about twitter.

 

[sonicmyst]

The music is also the one that plays in the Statue of Liberty scene in the first X-Men movie.

 

[God of Kings]

Whoops, my fault, I had scripting disabled for Twitter. Shows how often I use twitter (never). I find twitter very annoying. I can't stand that news articles use twitter comments as sources and include them in their articles. I think it's safe to say I hate everything about twitter.

The cyan canary likes to [unmentionable word] on everything these days.

It has some uses, but over 90% of the time, it's [unmentionable word].

I don't bother with it at all.

 

[ferretbacon]

The cyan canary likes to [unmentionable word] on everything these days.

It has some uses, but over 90% of the time, it's [unmentionable word].

I don't bother with it at all.

I don't get it either. It's difficult to navigate in my opinion and, unless I'm promoting something as a personality or celebrity, I don't see what use it has.

I love it when someone posts text that spans 35 tweets... why not just take to Facebook or a blog space?

 

[God of Kings]

I don't get it either. It's difficult to navigate in my opinion and, unless I'm promoting something as a personality or celebrity, I don't see what use it has.

I love it when someone posts text that spans 35 tweets... why not just take to Facebook or a blog space?

...or to Tumblr or Reddit, or better yet, a personal website.

 

[empresskiova]

My guess, it gives 2 settlers. Maaaaaybe 3. But I figure only 2, which is enough.

I doubt this wonder will be “worth it”, since 2 Settlers is fairly easy to build (much more so than a wonder), and being a later game wonder, won’t generate a terribly large amount of tourism. I guess it’s good if you just want to leave a coastal city running this. Though Venetian Arsenal is still 5 times stronger.

As far as the loyalty effect goes, that’s neat and thematic. It’ll be a Wide player’s dream. Plop down a city away from your Cap, and you can have a second base of operations so to speak. Just gotta get it to wonder-building strength first.

In comparison to Collosus, at least Collosus gives you something you can’t hard produce (the trade slot) at will. The free trader is just a bonus. I wonder if this lady will give a yield? Culture perhaps?

 

[Aussie_Lurker]

Not sure how "bonus settlers" work, but bonus loyalty radiated from the wonder looks good.

It probably helps to replicate the increased influx of migrants that Ellis Island has overseen over the centuries. It could have been represented as increased population too, I guess.

 

[ShallowSeas]

Has anyone considered the possibility that it gives a settler to every city within its range, like some kind of settler coliseum? That makes sense, considering a wonder that gives you two free settlers in the industrial era wouldn't be that good. Also if it gives 2 settlers or some consistent number why wouldn't they just say that instead of "The Statue of Liberty grants bonus settlers and Loyalty to nearby cities".

 

[stealth_nsk]

Has anyone considered the possibility that it gives a settler to every city within its range, like some kind of settler coliseum? That makes sense, considering a wonder that gives you two free settlers in the industrial era wouldn't be that good. Also if it gives 2 settlers or some consistent number why wouldn't they just say that instead of "The Statue of Liberty grants bonus settlers and Loyalty to nearby cities".

Yep, that's possible. The wording is a bit weird, though. Also, if that's the case, this decreases SoL effectiveness as offensive wonder.

 

[craney1987]

I think this could potentially be only a wonder used in specific circumstances. Bonus loyalty only to nearby by cities means that either offensively or defensively it needs to be built in a city that you forsee being on a border for a long period of time. If you are at war/planning to go to war at any point in the short to mid term it's effectiveness is reduced considerably.
I also am concerned that if it is Settler units, they come too late.
settlers as population would be a much better bonus

 

[Kyro]

Bonus settlers in the late game when they have the least value and when land is at its scarciest? Who designed the mechanics behind the wonder? Is loyalty a relevant enough an effect in R&F to actually justify the Statue of Liberty's status as a wonder?

It certainly fits with the developer's current idea of Wonders that they are just "nice to haves" that are just good enough to be worth something but intentionally not strong enough to be considered truly powerful.

 

[h0nk0815]

Bonus settlers in the late game when they have the least value and when land is at its scarciest?

Don't forget that late game cities will have problems to get the districts built, as their cost increase with number of techs.

 

[Disgustipated]

I almost never build late game settlers, but they can be useful for snatching up oil or aluminum if you don't have it in your empire. Usually an arctic or desert city will be good for those 2 resources.

 

[Guandao]

The music is also the one that plays in the Statue of Liberty scene in the first X-Men movie.

Really? That's interesting, it must be an actual American song then and connected to the real life statue somehow.