why cant my city build any wonders?

[wysiwygger]

In a game I have a city Elephantine and it wont build let me build any wonders in it.
all my other sities can build wonders, exept this one. I have never seen this before. Is it a bug?
I have a save file to show you if it is.

 

[DaEezT]

I haven't d/l the savegame but could it be that you harvested a forest near that city? if yes you can't switch to a wonder until you have built something else, because "rushing" a wonder in any way (including harvesting a forest) other than with GLs is impossible in civ3.

 

[Gastric ReFlux]

Yep, probably a forest was harvested adding shields to the city, or a unit was disbanded and that added shields to the city. Once a city has "tainted shields" it can't build a wonder until those shields are used to build something normal.

 

[wysiwygger]

oh

 

[murewa]

yep, listen to the experts. they gave very good diagnosis.

and also...
replace all those irrigation with mines instead. the irrigation is not helping you one bit. that is the reason that you're not getting the most of your core cities (Thebes especially with only 20 shield production even with 12 pop - you should have about twice). Also move the citizens around so that they don't overlap so much.

good game! war chariots do look very cool. hehe... i just found out.