[GS] World Wonder speculation thread

[SammyKhalifa]

Hadron Collider

 

[Reckoner]

Golden Gate Bridge was built in the 1930's, I can see it appearing in the modern era and specifically on computers or capitalism.
Panama Canal belongs on electricity, maybe? civil engineering (which might be the obvious choice) is currently early industrial.

Currently, the information era has no world wonders, I can see something related to...um...information, added. Like the Internet or firewall.
Space tourism might be fun as a project for your spaceport while you're researching the next important technology, or waiting for your mars colony to arrive & flourish. This was one of my favorite parts in civ II - keep on the fighting and petty politics while our spaceships are racing to the neighboring solar system

 

[Siptah]

Golden Gate Bridge was built in the 1930's, I can see it appearing in the modern era and specifically on computers or capitalism.
Panama Canal belongs on electricity, maybe? civil engineering (which might be the obvious choice) is currently early industrial.

Panama Canal is confirmed on Steam Power.

 

[Reckoner]

Panama Canal is confirmed on Steam Power.

Gotcha, thanks!


For military purposes, I'm thinking Missile defense systems.

 

[BarbarianHunter]

I'd like to see a fusion energy wonder for the future era that could add power to all your cities.

 

[bite]

I shall use this thread to champion The Dish as a world wonder because it is a delight

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

I shall use this thread to champion The Dish as a world wonder because it is a delight

That big one in Puerto Rico would be cool too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory

 

[kryat]

I shall use this thread to champion The Dish as a world wonder because it is a delight

Arecibo would be good too, though the Aus one does indeed have a delightful base to dish ratio.

Edit: ninja’d

 

[Lord Lakely]

The Atomium would be a quirky choice for a late-game scientific wonder that *I* would support. For those unfamiliar, it's a Landmark constructed in Brussels when they were the cultural capital in 1958 and it has the shape of an Iron atom.

it's also huge:

Fun Fact: Each of the "Protons" now serves as an exhibition hall/museum, except for the top one which is a cosmic pin-like restaurant

 

[roulev]

I was thinking they might have a dam as a Wonder. It could be Hoover dam, the Three Gorges dam, maybe even Itaipu. Otherwise, I think the Temple of Zeus and Macchu Picchu will be in, no idea for the last.

 

[Siptah]

The Atomium would be a quirky choice for a late-game scientific wonder that *I* would support. For those unfamiliar, it's a Landmark constructed in Brussels when they were the cultural capital in 1956 and it has the shape of an Iron atom.

it's also huge:

Fun Fact: Each of the "Protons" now serves as an exhibition hall/museum, except for the top one which is a cosmic pin-like restaurant

Two world fair wonders in one game?

Loved to stand beneath one of the looser atoms and have a waffle while looking upwards. Also the escalators inside are funny.

 

[kryat]

I’d also really like to see the return of a huge church as a wonder like Ulm Minster, Notre Dame, Canterbury Cathedral, San Marco’s Basilica, or Florence Cathedral.

Unless I’m forgetting one, we have St Basil’s and Mt St Michel representing Christianity, but one is distinctly non-Western European, and the other is a monestary. Hagia Sophia half counts.

Edit: Spelling

Also Sagrada Famila

 

[Giskler]

That big one in Puerto Rico would be cool too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory

There's an even bigger one in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_hundred_meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope

 

[kryat]

For reference, in Rise and Fall we got:

Amudsen-Scott - Late game wonder for when wonders are spare
Casa de Contractacion - Interacts with Governor system
Kilwa Kisiwani - A wonder related to city states (previously, there was only Apadana)
Kotoko-in - An excuse for more warrior monks
Statue of Liberty - Interacts with new loyalty system
St Basil’s - Tundra Petra - making hostile climates tolerable
Taj Mahal - Interacts with era score
Temple of Artemis - One of the 2 missing original 7 wonders

Thus, to guess the new wonders, we should look at what systems are missing interactions

Off the top of my head:
-Canals, dams, tunnels (arguably we already have 2 known representing new infrastructure)
-Disasters
-Future era/reworked victories
-New government types
-Diplomatic victory (something gives you more favor?)
-Something boosting coastal settling or mountain settling (a la Petra or St Basil’s, since some think coasts are hostile locations, and mountains, while useful for adjacency, are actually bad to have in your borders)
-Something interacting with alliances, might be related to diplomatic wonder
-Something boosting mega cities
-Temple of Zeus, obviously

 

[ChocolateShake]

I'd like to see a return of SETI Seems like a good fit for a more future based era, though I suppose it's not really fitting with the expansion's theme in general.

Perhaps a wonder related to Sweden might make it in. Would definitely like to see more pre-modern age wonders.

 

[AvianBritish]

Hear are my ideas:

Great Bath

Panama Canal

Golden Gate Bridge

Palm Islands (feat. The World and The Universe) - +6 housing in this city. Receive gold equal to your amount of tourism per turn. Must be built on coast adjacent to land.

Supertree Grove (Gardens by the bay feat. Marina Bay Sands) - +2 Amenities in this city. All powered buildings require 1 less power. Harbour and Areodome districts and buildings provide +1 tourism each. Must be built adjacent to city. Must be built on or adjacent to coast.

Silicone Valley - +2 Amenities in each city. Powered buildings receive +2 of each respective yeild when powered. +10% Science, Culture, Production and Gold in this city.

Eye of Heaven (Five-hundred-metre Aperture Sperical Telescope, FAST) - Provides Eurekas for Science Victory Project Techs. Must be built on rainforest hill adjacent to a Research Lab.

 

[sonicmyst]

We are still missing The Louvre, Pentagon, and CN Tower.

 

[Xandinho]

The new main new features are: world congress/diplomacy, natural disasters and engineering projects. And assuming they will add wonders geographically distributed in a balanced way, and from all eras, my full list is:

1. Panama Canal (Engineering projects. Industrial era. Central America). Confirmed.
   
2. Great Baths (Growth wonder. Ancient/classical era. Asia). Confirmed.
   
3. Golden Gate Bridge (Engineering projects. Modern era. North America). Kind of confirmed.
   
4. Great Mosque of Djenne (Religious wonder. Medieval era. Africa)
5. Machu Picchu (Trade wonder. Medieval era. South America)
6. St. Peter's Basilica (Diplomatic wonder. Renaissance Era. Western Europe)
7. Statue of Zeus (Military wonder. Ancient/classical era. Eastern Europe). The last missing original ancient wonder, but there is not sign of this in early of the cultural/scientific tree, although.

There may be a wonder related to climactic studies at the end of the game, I can not think of anything right now. I would put this in place of the Statue of Zeus.
A Canadian wonder like CN Tower or Château Frontenac is also very likely.

 

[Leyrann]

The Atomium would be a quirky choice for a late-game scientific wonder that *I* would support. For those unfamiliar, it's a Landmark constructed in Brussels when they were the cultural capital in 1958 and it has the shape of an Iron atom.

it's also huge:

Fun Fact: Each of the "Protons" now serves as an exhibition hall/museum, except for the top one which is a cosmic pin-like restaurant

I don't know what it does represent, but it isn't an iron atom. Iron atoms have 26 protons (not 10) and some 30 neutrons (exact amount varies, but the lowest energy iron isotrope (also the lowest energy per mass isotrope of all elements) has 30 if I remember correctly).

Looking at it's form, I think it actually represents a piece of a metallic solid, depicting ten of it's atoms. I think it's an FCC structure (hard to see from that pic though), which, if I remember correctly, is the structure iron typically takes, along with quite a few other metals.

 

[Turrdy]

Silicone Valley - +2 Amenities in each city. Powered buildings receive +2 of each respective yeild when powered. +10% Science, Culture, Production and Gold in this city.

Does seem a bit overpowered. +2 Amenities per city is already the bonus for maracana stadium.