Wonders

[rah]

[Ming]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Maybe we should ask deity dude?

And that also explains rah's answer

[Julian Delphiki]

Originally posted by Supr49er


Have you ever tried? I know some leaders emphasize wonders (Asoka, Cyrus, Gilgamesh), and some never seem to build any (Monty, Sitting Bull).

Closest thing that i've done must be Gandhi OCC on Noble / small Pangaea / Agg AI. I had stone and probably managed to score at least half of the wonders without really trying while also keeping up in power by building military constantly.

[rah]

If you're industrious, you should probably build a few more than normal just so you don't waste the trait.

[darrelljs]

I suggest wandering over to RB when this event is complete. My guess is someone will manage to get all the wonders.

Darrell

[Arrian]

I don't think I've ever been particularly close to building them all, even in vanilla. There are too many in the early going.

And I'm a wonder fiend.

-Arrian

[couerdelion]

I once managed seven or eight early wonders when I played Stalin (AGG/IND) and got stone (or maybe marble). Two relatively early GE's help me get Temple of Artemis, Parthenon, Stonehenge, Great Wall, Pyramids, Oracle and Colossus and maybe G Lighthouse.

But building all that lot slows expansion and can ultimately harm development so I then went on a little expansion spree and effectively passed up on the Classical and Mediaeval wonders.

Got a similar thing going with the current game as Huayna Capac (FIN/IND). Being given a middling sized island in the icy north on what was clearly an islands map, I managed Stonehenge, Oracle, Great Lighthouse and Colossus.

But without stone or marble and with low production, the Great Wall, Pyramids, Temple of Artemis etc are just that little too costly for me.

[Saygame]

I usually aim for specific Wonders dependant on terrain and traits (eg- GL and Colossus for finanacial etc), so rarely do I try to net them all. I agree with earlier posts that TOO many wonders leads to reduced early critical builds.
But I did try something new last night. Mansa, forced to settle a relatively isolated seafood peninsula, pop and chopped out Colosuss without a single hill (I had three food resources and could grow like crazy). All the harder since after doin that for a granary and lighthouse, I got beat to GL and had to revert to research Metal Casting and then pop the Mint and then FINALLY the Colussus. I let the city grow to 8 (5 over happiness cap) to do it.....never done that before.

[Blaupanzer]

Originally posted by rah
You can always get them all. Some you just have to take.

I like this solution best. Building them all would require few and boring opponents, and little real in-game challenge. Maybe a large map, low level, 1 opponent would work. But where's the fun in that?

[couerdelion]

Originally posted by Blaupanzer


I like this solution best. Building them all would require few and boring opponents, and little real in-game challenge. Maybe a large map, low level, 1 opponent would work. But where's the fun in that?

I've done that. Small duel map at settler (edited) level and popped a settler from a hut in 3900 BC

But I did not build all the wonders because I won the game before them.

Saygame, I don't quite see why GL (either Lighthouse or Library) has a great deal of synergy with Financial. GLib certainly works with Philosophical and also with Pyramids. But I see GLib more as a source of Great Scientists rather than a source of beakers.

[Ming]

Originally posted by couerdelion
I've done that. Small duel map at noble level and popped a settler from a hut in 3900 BC

I thought settlers from huts only happened at the easiest level and didn't happen at nobel?

[couerdelion]

Sorry. It must have been settler level

[Unimatrix11]

Well, my bro once popped a settler in an MP-game with me - he was playing quite a low diificulty, but not the lowest... So i am pretty sure settlers do not pop on the easiest level only...

[Horace]

I think you can pop settlers up to warlord level

[Asmodeous]

I popped a settler on Noble once out of a hut.

I think you can pop them on higher levels of difficulty, just the chance is so infintessimal it's well enough to say "never".

Me.