[R&F] World Wonder Poll

[Trengilly]

I was wondering what people thought of the 8 new wonders . . .

Temple of Artemis
Base Cost: 180 Production
Requires: Archery
Yield: +4 Food, +3 Housing
"Each Camp, Pasture and Plantation improvement within 4 tiles of this wonder provides +1 Amenity. Must be placed adjacent to a Camp improvement."

Kilwa Kisiwani
Base Cost: 710 Production
Requires: Machinery
"Grants bonus envoys and boosts yields from City States of which you are the Suzerain." (Wonder video)
"+3 Envoys when built. When you are the Suzerain of a City-State this city receives a +15% boost to the yield provided by that City-State. If you are the Suzerain to 2 or more City-States of that type an additional +15% boost is given to all your cities. Must be built on a flat tile adjacent to the coast."

Kotoku-in
Base Cost: 710 Production
Requires: Divine Right civic, Temple (Holy Site), Must be adjacent to a Holy Site
Yield: +20% Faith in this city. Grants 4 Warrior Monks. Warrior Monks can only be received if the player has founded a religion or if there is a majority religion for this player or city.

Casa de Contratación
Base Cost: 920 Production
Requires: Cartography.
"The Casa de Contratación grants Governor Promotions, extra Production, Faith, and Gold to cities with a Governor, and Great Merchant Points per turn."
"Gain 3 Governor promotions. All your cities on your non-home continent with a Governor gain +15% Production, +15% Faith, and +15% Gold. Must be build adjacent to a Government Plaza.
+3 Great Merchant Point per turn."

St. Basil's Cathedral
Base Cost: 920 Production
Requires: Reformed Church. Must be adjacent to City Center.
+1 Relic slot
"Grants 100%+ religious tourism to the city it's built in, bonus Food, Production, and Culture on tundra tiles, and contains additional Relic Slots."

Taj Mahal
Base Cost: 920 Production
Requires: Humanism civic
"+1 Era Score form Historic Moment earned after this wonder is complete if that Moment is usually worth 2 or more Era Score. Must be built next to a River."

Statue of Liberty
Base Cost: 1240 Production
Requires: Civil Engineering
Grants 2 Settlers. All your cities within 6 tiles are always 100% Loyal. Must be built on the Coast, adjacent to land and a Harbor district. Cannot be built on a lake.

Amundsen-Scott Research Station
Base Cost: 1620 Production
Requires: Cold War civic, Research Lab, must be adjacent to a Campus
Yield: +5 Great Scientist points per turn.
"+20% Science and 10% Production is all cities. If there are 5 Snow or Snow Hills tiles within 3 tiles of this city and owned by this player these yields are doubled. Must be built next to a Campus with a Research Lab on a Snow or Snow Hills tile."

 

[Trengilly]

My ranking:

1. Temple of Artemis - excellent benefits and cheap to build. Unfortunately the AI is going to snap it up before we humans get a chance to build it!
2. Amundsen-Scott Research Station - Looks excellent for a culture driven space victory - rush culture, chop Amundsen-Scott, and get +40% science +20% production empire wide for the science push?
3. St. Basil's Cathedral - The tundra Petra. Except it comes later and costs more than double Petra - which takes away much of its charm. But Russia will love it!
4. Casa de Contratación - Great but comes a bit late and costs a lot. But if you have the cities on other continents it could be fantastic.
5. Kilwa Kisiwani - I'm unclear if the +15% yield is to the portion provided by your city states (4 per district with level 2 buildings so you get 4.6 per district). Pretty weak. OR +15% to your total production of said yield. Pretty awesome!
6. Taj Mahal - should make golden ages easy to get - but it will only apply toward the last 4 eras. It might be easy enough to get them anyway. And of course some folks won't want golden ages anyway!
7. Kotoku-in - Expensive for 4 warrior monks and a weak faith boost. Can't see this being useful.
   
8. Statue of Liberty - Seems totally useless - two overpriced settlers. 100% loyalty is purely defensive and I can't see that being all that useful, especially when you have to build it on the coast.