Wonder victory

[hoopmatch]

I just played a perplexing 24-hour C3 game in which I was getting close to a cultural victory when the Dutch completed the manhattan project and suddenly I lost the game on account of a "wonder victory."

Now at this point I had built 16 wonders, and other civs had nine.

I don't understand what happened. Can anyone explain?

 

[vmxa]

The pedia and the manual do not cover the wonder victory. The manual says only "early wonder". This could mean first wonder built in the modern age, but I always thought it was for having the most.

Never actually seen it happen, probably I have it turned off and never saw it in any of the SG's I played.

 

[Quintillus]

My understanding was that a Wonder Victory was triggered when all Wonders had been built, and at that point, the civilization with the highest score won (highest victory point score if victory points were enabled). Thus in the Mesopotamia conquest, it usually ends when the last of the 7 Wonders in that scenario is built.

Were the Dutch the ones who won, or was it whoever had the highest score at that point (possibly also the Dutch)? Also, were the other modern wonders already built? It seems unusual that the Manhattan Project would be built after the Cure for Cancer and Longevity, but it's possible.

 

[Ataxerxes]

I've never seen this. It might have to do with your settings. Were you playing a Victory Point game? As Quintillus says, the Mesopotamian scenario ends when the 7th wonder is completed, but I've never seen it in a regular game I've played (I've never done VP). I've done Space victories but have never gone all the way through the tech tree with all wonders being built.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

It might have to do with your settings.

you can chose "allow wonder victory" in the settings before you start a game.

 

[hoopmatch]

My understanding was that a Wonder Victory was triggered when all Wonders had been built, and at that point, the civilization with the highest score won (highest victory point score if victory points were enabled). Thus in the Mesopotamia conquest, it usually ends when the last of the 7 Wonders in that scenario is built.

Were the Dutch the ones who won, or was it whoever had the highest score at that point (possibly also the Dutch)? Also, were the other modern wonders already built? It seems unusual that the Manhattan Project would be built after the Cure for Cancer and Longevity, but it's possible.

Your understanding makes sense to me (the OP). The wonder victory occurred immediately after the last wonder had been built. I'm not sure who won. That wasn't made clear. I'm definitely going to turn off the "allow wonder victory" option in my next game.

 

[CommandoBob]

Oh, man, I had this happen to me the first time I tried for a 20K culture city.

Here is the overview of that game in the Hall of Fame section: CommandoBob: A Series of Random Civs for Machiavelli (Post #39). The HoF does not accept Wonder Victories, and it wasn't what I wanted anyway, which made me a very unhappy camper.