What wonder (of ALL ) would you pick to start with?

[veryfinemale]

I sometimes like to use the world builder to play around and "Cheat". I like to see what starting with different buildings or techs does and how it effects my game.
My question is, if you can start the game with ANY Wonder, which one would you pick and why?

 

[LordKestrel]

Eiffel Tower, for the enormous cultural boost in every city.

 

[Doppelgänger50]

The Hagia Sophia would actually be pretty darn useful if you started with it. By the time you get to it in a regular game, though, it's much less so.

Statue of Liberty, though, would be my ultimate pick, and I'd play a Philosophical civ.

EDIT: Actually, scratch that. I wouldn't be able to hire anything other than citizens at the start, would I? Crap...

 

[genjiboy]

Chichen Itza, because you can never have too much defence at the start. Or the Pentagon.

 

[shadow2k]

West Point

 

[goraemon]

No question. Al Gore.

 

[Ex-Cop]

Internet. Pretty obvious why.

 

[veryfinemale]

Interesting, in that I have gotten several response, all with different responses.

 

[shadow2k]

Internet. Pretty obvious why.

I've never built it, and it's not listed on the Wonders page that I glanced through...completely forgot about it.

 

[Big Bottom]

I've never built it, and it's not listed on the Wonders page that I glanced through...completely forgot about it.

It's a project rather than a wonder.

 

[Tauro]

3G dam (lol, message too short...never read this warning before )

 

[whitecrow]

I'd pick statue of liberty and rush for pyramid. ( of course in a huge continent )

 

[niffweed17]

internet, i agree, but the effect is altered drastically if it becomes available at the start of the game. the same deal with the three gorges dam, the united nations, and manhattan project, they're just not realistic at the beginning.


for this reason, i will limit myself to wonders with a reasonable effect. if i'm getting an early religion, i want the spiral minaret.

if not, i could settle for any of the pyramids, notre dame, or the statue of liberty.

 

[goraemon]

Meh, what's the point of entertaining a completely unrealistic, hypothetical question if you're going to limit your answers to those with a "reasonable effect"?

 

[Gen.Rommel]

i got a question though, oracle gives a free tech right? could you get industrialism, or steel by it?

My wonder would have to be the pentagon, since west point doesnt provide an extra promotion with the civics i would use, just extra xp.

 

[BlackMage]

i got a question though, oracle gives a free tech right? could you get industrialism, or steel by it?

My wonder would have to be the pentagon, since west point doesnt provide an extra promotion with the civics i would use, just extra xp.

The Oracle gives you a free tech based on what you can currently research at the time.

I would like the Statue of Liberty or Eiffel Tower.

 

[MyOtherName]

The Three Gorges Dam isn't exactly useful at the beginning, is it?

 

[hollebeek]

The Three Gorges Dam isn't exactly useful at the beginning, is it?

Actually, as an expansive civ, sistine chapel would be huge.

 

[Artanis]

The Internet.

If that's not allowed due to being a "Project" instead of a "Wonder", then I'd say probably Hollywood or the Great Library. Getting +1 in every city would be pretty useful, and 6 extra beakers per turn would be HUGE in the extreme opening stages of the game.

 

[Zombie69]

The internet, no contest.