Stone, Marble, Wonders -- Civpedia???

[Padmewan]

In my current game I've got stone, and marble's a, er, stone's throw away, so I thinks to myself, "What Wonders can I build double-time with these?" Well, let me tell you that the in-game Civpedia is no help at all. You have to click through all the city improvements to find the wonders and then see if stone or marble make them build faster. The manual is actually better, but who wants to have a book sitting next to them when playing a game? I do enough of that at work.

So, I hope the dev's improve the civpedia and have a list of the wonders benefited by stone or marble in the resource entry for the civpedia. In the meantime, anyone with access to the manual care to list all the options? (I'm at work!)

 

[southafrica]

In my current game I've got stone, and marble's a, er, stone's throw away, so I thinks to myself, "What Wonders can I build double-time with these?" Well, let me tell you that the in-game Civpedia is no help at all. You have to click through all the city improvements to find the wonders and then see if stone or marble make them build faster. The manual is actually better, but who wants to have a book sitting next to them when playing a game? I do enough of that at work.

So, I hope the dev's improve the civpedia and have a list of the wonders benefited by stone or marble in the resource entry for the civpedia. In the meantime, anyone with access to the manual care to list all the options? (I'm at work!)

Well copper speeds up a lot of the modern era wonders, as does alluminum (sp), stone does the kremlin later on and many of the religious ones. Same with marble.

 

[petey]

In the early game, Stonehenge and Pyramids are stone and Parthenon and Oracle are marble. I'm not too sure about any of the later ones.

 

[Padmewan]

Sorry, I was unclear. I meant which wonders can benefit from stone OR marble. If there was a wonder that could be built in triple or quadruple time with both that would be pretty unbalancing!

Some I can think of off the top of my head are Stonehenge, Spiral Minaret, Sistine Chapel...? Also the Colossus benefits from bronze, I think...

 

[Chris Withers]

I think that the Civilopedia took a step back. In Civ3 I rate it an A. In Civ4 I'd rate the manual a B-. There is sooooo much that is not explained it is ridiculous.

 

[Padmewan]

I think that the Civilopedia took a step back. In Civ3 I rate it an A. In Civ4 I'd rate the manual a B-. There is sooooo much that is not explained it is ridiculous.

I agree, but in all fairness to the Civ4 Civilopedia, I think it took them a few patches to get the Civ3 one to where it ended up. Hopefully the 'pedia is on their list of patches (after all the memory leaks and video card issues!)