Great Wonder monopoly?

[gentle]

Originally posted by joncnunn
On building a lot of wonders near your capital, but not neccesarily a monopoly:

1. An industrial leader. First the raw bonus producing them and for the classical & later era ones that cheap forge.

2. Stone resource nearby; which is the most popular double speed wonder.

3. The city must have productive. Plains (farmed) and/or Forest. Surplus citizens using specalities that produce shields.

4. Expansive is indirect, mostly the half price granery -> faster growth sooner, but also the +2 health which in my game is harder to come by than happiness.

5. Gaundi's good for not losing production while changing civics. Say to Organized Religion and/or Bureachy. Yes, Fincincial is better for getting the tech to begin with.

6. Philosophical to produce great engineers.
got 6 engineers and 2 artists until 1AD with Saladin.
(needed a new random seed once or twice so some might say it lacks legitimation but at least GPs are a factor too)

[gentle]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
It's probably more interesting to try and beat the game without building any wonders.

must have overread this...*gasp*....definetely need 2nd coffee now ^^

[GeoModder]

Oh, I think it wouldn't be too hard, provided national wonders and projects aren't included in that definition. (til Prince level at least)

[Silver14]

Its easy to get all the wonders one way or another - if you don't raze the enemy cities that have them first.

[CodeNameSly]

I'm playing on Prince level and have built pretty much every single wonder. I missed Versailles and The Spiral Minaret since I always put off researching Divine Right for a long time (usually just wait until the AI is willing to trade it, actually). I also only have 3 of the 7 religious shrines. Other than that I have everything, including internet (just so the AI couldn't get it :P). No one's built Manhattan Project - not sure if that counts.

This was done with Qin Shi Huang.

[joncnunn]

I assume you mean world wonders, running a large empire without the FP would result in high maintenance costs.

Originally posted by Cort Haus

It's probably more interesting to try and beat the game without building any wonders.

[joncnunn]

Actually the bigest mistake people moving up into Prince or Monarch tend to make is trying to build too many world wonders.

Originally posted by GeoModder
Oh, I think it wouldn't be too hard, provided national wonders and projects aren't included in that definition. (til Prince level at least)