Your 5 World Wonders

[Silu]

edit: xpost mania

 

[Yared]

Oh ya NVM what I said

Still, you get the point I'm trying to make

 

[Ramesses-Rules]

My favorite early wonders are Pyramids and Great Library. The best late wonders vary a lot, depending on leader, game situation, and victory strategy. I have learned to be more selective about what wonders to build as I have move up in difficulty level. I used to just spam everything possible in Thebes just because I can build them fast.

 

[King Kalmah]

Great Lighthouse

Pyramids

Oracle

Spiral Mineret

Pentagon

 

[capnvonbaron]

1. 'Mids
2. Hanging Gardens (oft in the same city as 'mids for GE greatness, which makes other wonders more possible)
3. Glib
4. Intarnet
5. My army

 

[bestsss]

The Great Lighthouse seems impossible to get as you say on Immortal, and even if I could get it I don't understand how I'm simultaneously going to be able to expand enough and grab enough land after investing so much into it.

It's almost always possible on immortal if you have what to chop and enough food.
On deity it's harder.

My usual goal is like turn 60 on normal speed.

Getting it and not getting declared early on usually means the game is in the bag. Not always but very often.

 

[AveiMil]

It's almost always possible on immortal if you have what to chop and enough food.
On deity it's harder.

My usual goal is like turn 60 on normal speed.

Getting it and not getting declared early on usually means the game is in the bag. Not always but very often.

Yeah, I'm sure it's possible. But the problem I would face then is, I've chopped away all my forest and now I'm gimped in terms of early development of chopping Settlers/Workers then the land grab becomes harder (of course depends on the map, I generally play Small or Standard fractal).

 

[mrt309]

1 - Pyramids: Happiness and science boost in early game.
2 - The Oracle: An expensive tech for a small developing empire is a huge boost.
3 - Taj Mahal: A golden age in a good time.
4 - Three Gorges Dam: Healthy energy is good.
5 - Statue of Liberty: Free specialists mean free EP/gold/science/production/GPP(whatever you want)

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Thanks for the reply.

I personally never build any of the early wonders if I do not have marble and or stone. Can you think of any situations where you decide (or think it's a good decision) to for instance build the Great Wall or Stonehenge without stone present or The Oracle without marble? I'm guessing Pyramids is definitely out of the question without stone as it's quite expensive (?).

The Great Lighthouse seems impossible to get as you say on Immortal, and even if I could get it I don't understand how I'm simultaneously going to be able to expand enough and grab enough land after investing so much into it.

On high levels it is not typically realistic to have stone or marble in time to use for those wonders (you would often need to tech the wheel instead of saw BW, then spend turns hooking it up, when you're already at masonry...oracle is even worse since you don't even need masonry for it). You generally just wind up chopping for them in situations where you really want them.

 

[EsaKo]

I tried to include some that aren't so universally well-liked...

Pyramids (I'm playing LoR where it's even better because of instability)
Great Lighthouse (Makes coastal cities very much worthwhile)
Eiffel Tower (I don't have to worry about culture any more!)
Three Gorges (Say no more!)
Pentagon (Extra exp never hurts)

 

[Kierkegaard]

The Great Wall: I usually play on large maps, marathon and raging barbarians. So it's actually fun to see ur neighbours cripple beneath the barbs pressure while u relax and expand

The oracle: free tech, and if well used a big advantage!

Statue of Zeus: the enemies get a lot more war exhaustion = big advantage and it doesn't go obselete!

The Piramids

The apostelic Palace


Yes I'm an early wonder whore! But I still manage to play decent!

 

[PPQ_Purple]

In order of construction.

1. Stonehenge (Early +1 culture makes your first 2-3 cities grow fast without too much intervention)
2. The Great Wall (Absolutely essential as it allows me to focus on less archers and more axeman)
3. Oracle (So I can jump to founding my own religion at higher levels)
4. Apostolic Palace (The +4 are good, but the real gain is in stopping wars and making crusades)
5. Three Gorges Dam (Continents map + TGD + a continent to my self = me)

And yes, I am addicted to industrious leaders.

 

[bestbrian]

1. 'Mids: Always a big fan of early Rep, but much more so that I've been playing LoR.

2. Great Lighthouse: With lots of coast this is a no brainer, but tough to get, especially since only IND leaders are going to get any discount on the high cost.

3. Great Library: Yes, please.

4. Parthenon: GPs are golden on Immortal.

5. Mausoleum of Mausollos: 24 turn GAs on Marathon? Chain three or four of them together in mid game and say goodbye.

Situationable Honorable Mentions:

Stonehenge: I never go for this, but if I'm CHA it's tempting (moreso with Stone or with DeGaulle).

Collossus: Get a heavy coastal start and match up with ToA and GLH. If you can pull it off the numbers boggle.

 

[DivljaJagoda]

oracle FTW

 

[Berkobob]

Axeman wonder.

Then the next four wonders I capture.

 

[Patak]

Playing a lot of multiplayer games:
1. Great Wall because we play raging barbs
2. Stonehange (just makes other players pissed - knowing my friends at least three of them were building it and they lost it hahahahaha)
3. Oracle - look at Stonehange
4. I know that hammers ratio for building Wonders is not in for them but I just like building them so I would use any opportunity to build any.
5.I dont see anybody mentioning Three Gorges Dam which is in the late game crutial for me (do not need to build all the power plants).

 

[Izmir Stinger]

I'd go with Leonardo Davinci's workshop from CiV II. That's probably all I'd need. Oh, maybe a time machine so I could port it to CiV IV.

Didn't that make all unit upgrades free? That would be so broken in Civ 4. Imagine avoiding hunting so you can build warriors and spamming them to the point of backbreaking maintenance while you limp to machinery or engineering or whatever unlocks Davinci's Workshop and then BAM! ridiculous army of axmen and swords, soon to be macemen. Conquer the world by 1000 AD, guaranteed.

That would be fun exactly three times.

 

[EsaKo]

Didn't that make all unit upgrades free? That would be so broken in Civ 4. Imagine avoiding hunting so you can build warriors and spamming them to the point of backbreaking maintenance while you limp to machinery or engineering or whatever unlocks Davinci's Workshop and then BAM! ridiculous army of axmen and swords, soon to be macemen. Conquer the world by 1000 AD, guaranteed.

That would be fun exactly three times.

Even better. It upgraded all your units at no cost until obsolete, while non-Leonardos couldn't upgrade at all! They had to disband...